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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

The Big Picture

The article suggests they were more interested in their own financial well-being than that of their clients. The reporters did not suggest wrongdoing, but allow me to point out that any advisor, let alone two, who became billionaires while wildly underperforming their benchmarks are obviously not fiduciaries.

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Things Change

The Better Letter

My favorite client, a pension manager for over 40 years, sardonically reminded me that someone buying 100-year bonds issued by the world’s leading entertainment business a century before would have purchased the debt of a player-piano company. We were Morgan Stanley’s co-manager. percent per annum, including dividends.

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The Importance Of Diversifying Your Diversifiers

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Mutiny makes a point that I've been writing about and have embedded into my process since 2004. ASFYX is a client and personal holding. There are expectations embedded in these numbers. MERIX, PPFIX, BTAL are client and personal holdings. It's not going to go up a lot when stocks drop a lot.

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Oil & Water: Fossil Fuel Divestment in Sustainable Bond Portfolios

Brown Advisory

The fossil fuel divestment “movement” has gained some momentum in recent years, and it is a topic we discuss with a growing number of clients. This concept has caught on with a growing number of investors, but a key problem is verification and monitoring: How can investors be sure that their money is going where the issuer says it is?

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Oil & Water: Fossil Fuel Divestment in Sustainable Bond Portfolios

Brown Advisory

The fossil fuel divestment “movement” has gained some momentum in recent years, and it is a topic we discuss with a growing number of clients. This concept has caught on with a growing number of investors, but a key problem is verification and monitoring: How can investors be sure that their money is going where the issuer says it is?

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Assessing Altria and Tobacco Fundamentals Five Years After the Peak

Fortune Financial

For example, the smoking rate is currently as low as perhaps it has ever been, yet this is mostly driven by population growth as the absolute number of adult smokers in the U.S. Simply put, there is still a very large number of people in the U.S. Both the author and clients of Fortune Financial Advisors, LLC own shares of Altria.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. Number one, everybody has credit cards, everybody misunderstands how to use them, and there are actually some secret perks that people have no idea about. SETHI: Yes, number one is eating out or dining.