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There’s No Smart Money

The Irrelevant Investor

On this week's Animal Spirits, we talked about: Why the phrase "the smart money" has lost all meaning The rise of fractional trading And how alternative investments could benefit from low interest rates [link] The post There’s No Smart Money appeared first on The Irrelevant Investor.

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How Much Time (and Energy) Do You Waste on Internet Passwords?

Indigo Marketing Agency

Picture this…you need to send a quick update to your email list. You go to log into your email marketing system, but you can’t remember the password. You try one password. Wrong. You try another password. Still wrong. . By this point you’re panicking. You don’t want to lock yourself out of your account, so you admit defeat and click the Forgot your password button.

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How To Save Up For A House Down Payment

Clever Girl Finance

Purchasing a first home is a big financial step. The amount that you need when finding out how to save up for a house can seem daunting. Nonetheless, it’s not impossible. Homeownership can be one of the cornerstones of building wealth. But to ensure that it's a wealth-building tool and not a financial burden, you must be prepared. There are some financial obligations of your investment.

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7 Risk Assessment Blind Spots (and How to Beat Them)

Risk Management Guru

You’ve all been there, driving along knowing you can predictably change lanes with ease, when suddenly a car shows up in your blind spot. You swerve back to your lane and everyone in your car is startled to attention, wondering what happened and knowing you messed up. Or, you’re walking down the sidewalk, consumed by thoughts when you remember something back at the office.

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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Bye Bye, New York

The Irrelevant Investor

This feels real. TAK Room, the super fancy Hudson Yards restaurant, which opened just over a year ago, has permanently closed its doors. The famous chef Thomas Keller said “Given the challenges of the past five months, we could not find an economically viable path to continue operating without expected seasonal, New York tourism and traffic." It's easy to see why a $100 a plate experience can't survive a shutdown, but they're hardly the only ones that are finally saying enough's enough.

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Silver Linings from the Trenches

AdvisorPR

8 ways to ignite the proactivity and positivity in your business, prospecting and service! We think that it is safe to say that what we are all witnessing around us is “unprecedented.” No one knows when we will see the light at the end of the tunnel, and the more you listen to the news the more it all starts to sound like “white noise.”. At Focus Partners, we have the privilege and pleasure of coaching and consulting some of the best advisors around the country.

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Animal Spirits: The Smart Money

The Irrelevant Investor

On today’s show we discuss: Public to private Robinhood is not sharing their data anymore Retail investors got crushed Fractional shares. $4.20 per order A new gold research paper GLD holds a lot of gold Lumber at an all-time high Evictions The seduction of pessimism The workforce is about to change Bill Gates is optimistic Twitter and TikTok Holy cow these bankrupticies Facebook buying a ton of real estate in NYC Google borrowing money for nothing Investor expectations Top 100 action movies (no

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The Investor’s Dilemma

The Irrelevant Investor

At some point along the way, every investor will come to a fork in the road. There will be a new investment du jour that everybody is talking about, and you've got to make a decision. You know that most will fizzle out, but you also know that some will not. Some will change the world and offer investors the opportunity to change their life (My life-changing story here).

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Webinars: The Secret to Increasing Your Conversion Rate

Indigo Marketing Agency

Webinar marketing for financial advisors is the key to unlocking high conversion rates. If you’ve spent any time on my website or reading my blogs, you know I really like webinars. Way back when I was working at one large marketing firm serving advisors, I ran a statistical analysis to see which efforts correlated most with new sales revenue. Guess what?

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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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Building Brand Trust in Our “New Normal”

AdvisorPR

From a global pandemic to seismic movements against social injustices, the vast and numerous headlines of 2020 have sent shockwaves across every aspect of daily life. In the financial industry, these catalysts have expedited many changes that were already in motion, from adopting new technologies to providing more inclusive holistic services that account for all aspects of life.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles Investments in publicly-traded U.S. stocks improved the wealth of shareholders by over $47 trillion dollars between 1926 and 2019 ( By Hendrik Bessembinder ) More than 90 percent of the stocks that have disappeared since 1996 were those of small- and micro-capitalization companies (By Michael Mauboussin and Dan Callahan) If markets were concerned about the deficit, borrowing costs for the government wouldn’t be at record lows (By Myles Udland) The internet specializes in disentangling t