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What Makes Us Different From FMG Suite? (Video)

Indigo Marketing Agency

FMG Suite is arguably the largest financial advisor marketing platform out there. It’s no surprise that when people find Indigo Marketing Agency, their first question is: What makes us different from FMG Suite? Believe it or not, I used to work at FMG Suite before I started Indigo Marketing Agency. And while there is a little bit of overlap between our services, we couldn’t be more different.

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Retail is staying in the ARKK.

The Irrelevant Investor

For ARKK investors, these last 3 months have been about as bad as it's ever gotten. The fund, which dominated all the headlines over the last year, is more than 30% below its all-time high. Despite this drop, investors in aggregate have done more than okay. This chart from George Pearkes tells the story. And now for the coup de grâce. ARKK has seen inflows from retail investors for 109 of the last 110 days.

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CIO Roundtable: Lessons from the Late 1990s Bubble and the Road Ahead

Brown Advisory

CIO Roundtable: Lessons from the Late 1990s Bubble and the Road Ahead jharrison Fri, 05/07/2021 - 14:37 As signs of market froth abound, our CIOs discuss the most important dynamics for investing in the current environment. Drawing on experiences as technology and consumer analysts, respectively, during the bubble of the late 1990s for perspective. The vantage point allows for insights in investing in frothy markets and avoiding pockets of overvaluation.

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What Are Expenses?

MazumaBusinessAccounting

We work with small business owners and entrepreneurs. Some are seasoned, others are just growing their side hustle. Their skills are varied and they have a wide variety of talents. We often get asked to explain the ins and outs of financial reports and have found that providing our favorite clients with a working knowledge of accounting terms is helpful.

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Are Robots Replacing You? Keeping Humans in the Loop in Automated Environments

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R

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Lessons from The Chocolate Wars

Fortune Financial

Deborah Cadbury’s Chocolate Wars is a wonderfully detailed history of the chocolate industry and the struggle for global market share among the titans of confectionery. While Ms. Cadbury, a descendant of the Quaker patriarchs of the Cadbury corporation (now part of Mondelez), focuses much of the early parts of the book on the Cadburys and their initial struggles to build their company, she also writes skillfully on the histories of Milton Hershey, Henri Nestle, and Forrest Mars, who, alon

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Three Types of Investors

The Irrelevant Investor

There are three types of investors: those who know nothing, those who know some things, and those who know everything. People on the left don't know much. They know what they see on Fin Tok. They know that Doge is going to the moon. They live and die by the meme. And right now, the meme is pure alpha. People on the right have read all the white papers.

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What Are Liabilities?

MazumaBusinessAccounting

We work with small business owners and entrepreneurs. Some are seasoned, others are just growing their side hustle. Their skills are varied and they have a wide variety of talents. We often get asked to explain the ins and outs of financial reports and have found that providing our favorite clients with a working knowledge of accounting terms is helpful.

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How Property Taxes Can Impact Your Home’s Value

Mauldin Economics

If you own a home or you're thinking about buying one, I have some bad news. Even after you pay off the mortgage , you still don't own the property. Not fully, anyway. From a philosophical standpoint, you're renting the house from the government. That payment comes due in the form of property taxes. Property taxes are the worst kind of taxes. However… I'm Happy to Pay Another Kind of Tax It isn't income taxes.

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Animal Spirits: We Should Be in a Bubble

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is brought to you by Masterworks For more information please visit their site here. On today’s show we discuss: Apple is on fire Rational bubbles How many stocks beat the stock market? Don't be so quick to write people off Robinhood clapped back at Munger Robinhood has a customer service problem Robinhood is hiring 40 financial advisors Yahoo!

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SEI Named 2021 Top 10 Military Friendly® Employer

SEI

Military Friendly also recognized SEI as a 2021 Military Friendly Spouse Employer.

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Book of Secrets on the Month-End Close

Based off SkyStem's popular e-Book, the book of secrets to the month-end close will be revealed in this one-hour webinar. Learn leading practices when it comes to building a strong and sustainable month-end close that has room to grow and evolve. Learn about the power of precise estimates, why reconciliations are critical to closing the books, how and when to automate, and how the chart of accounts play into your close process.

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What Are Operating Costs?

MazumaBusinessAccounting

We work with small business owners and entrepreneurs. Some are seasoned, others are just growing their side hustle. Their skills are varied and they have a wide variety of talents. We often get asked to explain the ins and outs of financial reports and have found that providing our favorite clients with a working knowledge of accounting terms is helpful.

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The Real World

The Irrelevant Investor

"What's going on in the stock market?" This usually isn't an easy question to answer. But we live in unusual times and right now the stock market is very easy to explain. Look through a few dozen charts and you'll find a very clean narrative. Today's winners were last year's losers and today's losers were last year's winners. Said differently, stocks in the physical world are outperforming stocks that live in the digital world.

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The Biggest Threat to Tech

The Irrelevant Investor

The tech giant's growth continues unabated. The big six now command nearly one-quarter of the entire S&P 500 by market cap. The most amazing part about this whole thing is that it is justified. It's hard to claim that these stocks are in a bubble when analyst estimates are continually behind the curve. They just continue to raise the bar. For example, the iPad, which is the smallest of Apple's five segments, made more revenue last quarter than Netflix or McDonald's.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles Disruption always looks obvious in hindsight (By Packy McCormick) Is there any there there in the price of Bitcoin? (By Ben Hunt) Even during a decade marked by an almost uninterrupted bull market, the average stock wasn’t much good (By Jon Rekenthaler) The adulation of young people is like oxygen to the aging billionaire businessman for whom the prospect of making “more money” no longer serves as the intoxicant it once did.

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Stop Falling Short When It Matters Most—The Elite Advisor’s Playbook to Success

Like being inches from the end zone, many advisors are frustratingly close to their next level of success. You work hard. You put in the hours. But if your closing rate is stuck or your pipeline feels like a revolving door… something has to change. Most advisors are just one small shift away from dramatically increasing their revenue. The difference?

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They Said What?

The Irrelevant Investor

At the annual Berkshire Hathaway meeting, Warren Buffett was asked about Bitcoin. He dodged the question. His partner, Charlie Munger, did not. "I hate the bitcoin success. And I don’t welcome a currency that’s so useful to kidnappers and extortionists and so forth,” he said. “So I think I should say modestly that I think the whole development is disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization.

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How to Set Up a Website for Your Business

MazumaBusinessAccounting

As a business owner, you spend a lot of time finding and presenting your business to the right customers. You spend hours meticulously arranging your products, perfecting your pitch, or figuring out how to connect with your clients to close the deal. These are all important ways for you to present yourself to your clients. However, you may be missing a strong online presence. .

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What Are Assets?

MazumaBusinessAccounting

We work with small business owners and entrepreneurs. Some are seasoned, others are just growing their side hustle. Their skills are varied and they have a wide variety of talents. We often get asked to explain the ins and outs of financial reports and have found that providing our favorite clients with a working knowledge of accounting terms is helpful.

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