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Transcript: Karin Risi, Vanguard’s Chief of Strategy & Product

The Big Picture

00:16:36 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, I’m, I’m not gonna check your math on that, but I’ll, I’ll buy Eric saying your, your estimate there on what we’ve saved investors over time. And there were multiple iterations before personal advisor, personal advisor, which we launched in 2015.

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At the Money: How to Change Careers 

The Big Picture

I couldnt figure out where it came from; so I worked out the canonical math. You start from 2015. Gold in 2015 looked very different than it did at the end of 2011. It didn’t matter how I did it, whether I balanced monthly or quarterly or annually, or I use thresholds. And that was that was a pretty good marker.

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The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

The Big Picture

If you were a Senator or a Congressman from 2015-20, and you didn’t spend most of that time pushing for a giant refinance of our debt, you should spend the rest of your life embarrassed for your failure. The excess costs of not refinancing the federal debt will soon be an extra trillion dollars a year.

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Don’t be tricked by 8% eternal Universal Life Insurance Interest Rates!

Sara Grillo

The math behind Universal Life Insurance Interest Rates is a twisted web and most consumers are deceived. Know how the math works so you can see the potential risks that may exist with your policy. The math behind Universal Life Insurance Interest Rates is a twisted web and most consumers are deceived. Don’t be fooled!

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A Billion Dollars isn’t Cool

The Irrelevant Investor

When The Wall Street Journal first published "The Billion Dollar Startup Club" in February 2015, 84 companies had the rare unicorn status. Source: Crunchbase *I didn't do the math, but it feels right **I also wouldn't be surprised if today's numbers look crazy, and we can't believe what happened during this bubble. Now it's ordinary.

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The Skew

The Irrelevant Investor

Hendrik Bessembinder An excellent piece from Bloomberg came out over the weekend, The Math Behind Futility , which looks beyond the usual explanations as to why the majority of professional stock pickers fail to keep up with an index. "Even if there weren’t fees and expenses, the odds are you’ll underperform."

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From Rocket Ship to Roller Coaster

Investing Caffeine

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. Many people have short memories and forget the Fed hiked interest rates 10 times from the end of 2015 through 2018. Source: Calafia Beach Pundit.

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