Fifteen people in Santa Monica help investment firms explain what billions of dollars cannot say for themselves. MBC Strategic’s wager is simple: before an allocator studies performance, somebody has to understand the story.

Across three decades and four financial institutions, Pamela Marchant has built a career around a deceptively hard brief: turn complex investment machinery into a story people can understand and use.

From annuities and college savings to a sprawling consulting platform, Carey Foran Hoch has spent three decades translating complicated institutions into stories people can use.