Sun.Oct 27, 2024

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Sunday links: controlling your vote

Abnormal Returns

Markets Jeff Somer, "Hedging and prediction markets are certainly worth knowing about, but for financial well-being, I believe that straightforward strategies are superior for most of us — as long as the great U.S. experiment endures." (nytimes.com) On the danger of forecasting decade-long returns. (tker.co) The problem with broad emerging market indices.

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Stocks to Buy:  6 stocks to buy now for an upside of up to 100%

Trade Brains

Stock recommendations are advice from financial experts telling investors whether they should buy, sell, or keep certain stocks based on their analysis of the market. A buy call recommendation tells investors to purchase a stock because it’s expected to rise in value based on favorable analysis. Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) is a Government of India enterprise that provides financial support for renewable energy and e

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

Top clicks this week Why we diversify. (awealthofcommonsense.com) We have entered an era where the economy is good, but everyone thinks it sucks. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Howard Marks thinks nearly every investor should look at private debt. (on.ft.com) Google's ($GOOGL) big businesses are in a slow, decline. (wheresyoured.at) Now is not a horrible time to rebalance your portfolio.

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The 5 Levels of Intelligence

A Wealth of Common Sense

When I was young and dumb, I was always impressed by finance people who used jargon and overcomplicated things. Markets are complex so I assumed that meant they required complex explanations and strategies. Boy was I wrong. Once I finally learned how much I didn’t know, it became clear that these were not the right people to follow. People who make things too complicated, even if they are intelligent, aren’t h.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Make the most of HNW events you paid to attend

Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

By Bryce Sanders The last few months of the year are the gala season for nonprofit organizations in my area. During a four-week period, there are at least four events we will be attending and another four we will be missing. For some, you buy tickets, while others are member recognition events or annual meetings. All of them put you in the company of seriously wealth people.

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Why did Reliance stock fall by 50%?

Trade Brains

RIL share price : Reliance shares opened at Rs 1,338, which appeared to be 49.61% lower than Friday’s closing price of Rs 2,655.45 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Shares of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) saw an apparent fall of nearly 50% on Monday, confusing many investors on trading apps. However, this drop is not an indication of a market loss but is due to the company’s latest bonus share issue.

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The Comprehensive 5-Step Operational Guide to Systematizing Your Financial Advisory Firm

Steve Sanduski

01 Why is systematizing your financial advisory firm important? In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, systematizing your office is essential for efficiency and delivering exceptional client service. As technology continues to evolve, it provides new tools to streamline operations, but the core principles of systematization remain consistent.

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Sunday Night Futures

Calculated Risk

Weekend: • Schedule for Week of October 27, 2024 Monday: • 10:30 AM ET, Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for October. This is the last regional Fed survey for October. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are up 24 and DOW futures are up 134 (fair value). Oil prices were down over the last week with WTI futures at $71.78 per barrel and Brent at $76.05 per barrel.

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Depletion Bucket

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

This post will revisit an idea we have touched on a few time before. The textbook order from which retirees "should" draw from is taxable accounts until depleted, then traditional IRAs until depleted and finally Roth IRAs. Frequently, they never get to the Roth and that can be part of the estate. This has to do with taxes and RMDs but it is very generic.

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Avoiding Lease Accounting Pitfalls in 2025: Lessons Learned from Spreadsheet Errors

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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Stocks in Focus; 5 companies that will announce results next week

Trade Brains

Investors anxiously anticipate the Q2FY25 earnings, which are due to be revealed next week in October. Analysts analyze organizations and their financial performance to predict market reactions based on business operations like sales, profit, and strategic outlooks. These findings will certainly help investors to understand market sentiment and investment decisions in the future.

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AI Power Demand Might Actually Turn Out to Be Good for Climate

Advisor Perspectives

Big energy companies are making the case that skyrocketing electricity demand from data centers — and the need to build more power sources to meet it — will end up being good for the climate.

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[cdata[ Can We Still Afford To Defend America? ]]

oXYGen Financial

![CDATA[ America's Growing Problem: The National Debt Interest Overtakes Defense Spending How Can Still We Still Afford To Defend America Without Going Bankrupt? Pay Down Our Debt Or Defend America? Russia and Ukraine. The Middle East. And soon what if China invades Taiwan? No, America doesn't have the Avengers, and we can't be in all places around the world at one time.

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Haven’t Worked at the Same Place for 10 Years? Join the Club

Advisor Perspectives

Been with the same employer for 10 years or more? That doesn’t exactly make you a rarity in the US, where 30.2% of employed wage and salary workers were in that situation as of January 2024, according to data released last month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while this percentage is down from a decade ago, it’s close to where things stood for the much of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

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Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • America’s gullibility crisis : In the heat of this historic election, educated elites who should know better — billionaires, elected officials, journalists — keep falling for fakes, conspiracy theories and outright lies. Why it matters: Human gullibility is not a new phenomenon.

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Exchange 2025 Brings in Experts at a Critical Moment

Advisor Perspectives

As advisors wrestle with the impacts of interest rates, inflation, and the election, it is more important than ever to hear from the experts.

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Data Centers at Center of Real Estate Thesis

Advisor Perspectives

Real estate stocks and related ETFs recently got a much needed positive jolt when the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates in September.

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