Carson Wealth

MARCH 2, 2023

Tom Fridrich, JD, CLU, ChFC ® , Senior Wealth Planner We’ve all asked ourselves whether it’s too early to retire (usually after a particularly challenging commute or dealing with a difficult client). But even if you feel confident today, would it be reasonable to retire early? Contact us today.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

Listen to this if you are a financial advisors or consumer who wants to see through the crap and make better decisions about whether IUL is good for you (or your client) or NOT. We have seen scenarios where clients go into it expecting to earn 6-8% and the policy earns 3-4%. For those of you who are new to my blog, my name is Sara.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

It's All Relative ajackson Thu, 05/03/2018 - 15:32 We are hearing a lot of questions from our clients about how rising interest rates may affect their municipal bond holdings. MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

Thu, 05/03/2018 - 15:32. We are hearing a lot of questions from our clients about how rising interest rates may affect their municipal bond holdings. Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. It's All Relative. MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES.

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Fortune Financial

MARCH 11, 2023

Proponents of this argument will point to a huge increase in vaping as a percentage of the nicotine revenue pool the last several years as evidence of this, yet that analysis misses a key point which is that cigarette revenues have grown in absolute terms despite the heightened competition: How exactly does this math work?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 29, 2022

Turns out the math checks out using Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for a 60/40 equities/fixed income portfolio and the Guggenheim Managed Futures Strategy Fund (RYMFX). This is the fund I mention all the time that I owned for clients through the financial crisis that used to have the Rydex name. Giving up 1.5%

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

when I first moved from Spain, and I learned a lot because I spent a lot of time with financial advisors, which, as you know, is a key segment of our client base today. phenomenon, it’s a global phenomenon and we want to be able to service our clients in all regions of the world. Is that the clients you’re aiming for?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

We discount each year at our 10% minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and some infinite series maths gives us the basis for some rough approximations 2. rates were going up in 2018 we did debate raising our WACC hurdle when the Federal Reserve (FED) funds rate was at 2.5% The last time U.S. and appeared to be going higher.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. A similar academic study from 2018 found roughly 48 percent accuracy. Stop with the math.` And lots of surprises.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. RITHOLTZ: Really?

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Now she’s leading a push to legalize gambling in Texas [link] Legal gambling leaves society as a whole worse off Feb 16, 2023 As the country emerges from a pandemic that left children zoning out over Zoom, parents are turning to the turbocharged “Russian math” method to give their kids an academic edge.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. Like you hear, I would hear senior reporters on the phone, like learning how to talk to a source, you follow someone to a meeting, you learn how to deal with a client. And that’s sort of the math.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting ajackson Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30 The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is an opportunity for shareholders and analysts to pose questions to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. They answered about 60 questions during the five-hour gathering.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting. Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30. Berkshire’s investment portfolio holds about $186 billion in equities and $118 billion in cash equivalents and bonds as of March 31, 2018. They answered about 60 questions during the five-hour gathering.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. Goldman had clients on the other side. They were trying to make their clients a ahead price and get hedged, and they were gonna walk away from the trade. Oh, really?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. I lost $900 million with my client’s money and these are the people that I got around and tried to convince to invest in Russia. How many do you have in your fleet? They said, seven years.

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