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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. Very different fields.

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Is Diversification Dead?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

We've talked just a couple of times about the market becoming increasingly concentrated which just in terms of math means that a diversified strategy will lag for as long as the big names do well. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. So we are talking about things in what I consider personal finance, home ownership, social security, tax management, estate planning and so on. Right, right.

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7 Best Personal Finance Courses in 2024 For Beginners

Trade Brains

The course covers an introduction to personal finance, credit cards, life insurance, health insurance, investment instruments, loans, income tax and planning, budgeting and building a strong portfolio. Also, you will learn how to plan your taxes, credit score importance and how to budget your income to create a portfolio.

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Hold Cash or Invest? History Shows Cash Isn’t King for Long

Darrow Wealth Management

Again just using simple math, this presumes the par value will roll over each month and reinvest at the same rate to get to the annual yield. Consider your objectives Before making an asset allocation decision, always keep in mind what you’re trying to accomplish. Compare that to the stated yield of 5.6% 467% a month.

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Portfolio Construction & 20% Yields

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The webinar talked about the future of model portfolios transitioning from a combo of ETFs for passive and mutual funds for active to include more direct indexing to allow for "tax optimization." Asset allocation matters. So using simple math, the total return is 34% versus 72% for the common. adds another 22.5%

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

You wouldn’t be surprised to learn the tax consequences of owning a mutual fund is a part of it. I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. Really fascinating guy. So I was at Harvard.

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