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A Guide To Conducting And Documenting An Annual Compliance Review Under New SEC Amendment

Nerd's Eye View

Rather, when the Compliance Rule originally went into effect in 2004, the adopting release described only 3 elements that should be considered in an annual review: 1) compliance matters in the previous year (e.g., Notably, the exact formatting, length, level of detail, and overall content of annual reviews are not prescribed by the SEC.

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Can You Live Off Dividends In Retirement?

Darrow Wealth Management

Simulated portfolio income using historical dividends Imagine you invested $1,000,000 on the last day of 2004. Hypothetical simulation assumes $1M was invested on 12/31/2004, 50% in SPY and 50% in AGG, portfolio was never rebalanced, dividends not reinvested, and no other contributions/withdrawals in the account. Source: J.P.

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The Roaring 20s

The Irrelevant Investor

Gordon wasn't particularly impressed, saying: The main benefits of digitalization for productivity growth have already occurred during the temporary productivity growth revival of 1996-2004. It's been more than 5 years since this book came out, and Gordon is changing his tune. a year over the next 25 years.

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Creating a Systems-Driven and Operationally Efficient Financial Advisory Firm with Amy Koenig

Steve Sanduski

Guest: Amy Koenig , a financial advisor coach and the Chief of Operations at ROL Advisor. In a Nutshell: Amy Koenig was the first coach I hired back in 2004 when I was running Peak Advisor Alliance-now Carson Coaching. We want to free up the advisor’s time. The advisor often thinks I am the only one who can do this.

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Exploring Volatility As An Asset Class

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Making changes to client portfolios' overall volatility through the duration of a stock market cycle predates when I started blogging in 2004. For purposes of clarity I will use vol to refer to the asset class and volatility to refer to effect and impact. The ways in which I do that have evolved over that time.

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How And Why To Give Away Your Money In 2024

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

While no significant decreases in charitable giving were found, CCS did find that “in more recent presidential election years, it appears that political giving is making up an increasingly larger percentage of all giving during the months surrounding the election, hovering around 12% in the fall of 2016 compared to around 8% in the fall of 2004.”

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. Find out if it’s for you and then the second thing I would say is if you are interested in financial counseling, therapy, et cetera, you’re going to learn the technical skills but the skill that I think is underrepresented when it comes to money is understanding people.