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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( History by numbers : Is history a matter of individual agency and action, or of finding and quantifying underpinning structures and patterns? The Atlantic ). •

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. 2020 Pandemic Panic ?!? ( Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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Emotional swings continue as the FOMC meeting looms

Nationwide Financial

The curve, however, continues to project cuts to the rate beginning next May, which seems optimistic given the tone of Fed officials and the math around getting inflation back close to their 2% target. Core CPI will likely grow, as the headline number benefits from falling gas prices, and shelter prices increase.

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TikTokInvestors

The Big Picture

At least one person1 has noticed the risks to young consumers of social media: Since August 2020, @TikTokInvestors has been curating the most outrageous money-losing and dangerous videos culled from the “financial experts” at TikTok. Nestled in between lip-sync dancers and fashion influencers, financial fraud lurks on TikTok.

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How Getting Women Into Financial Planning Can Benefit Everyone

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Alicia’s Experience One of my earliest experiences when I first decided to get into financial planning was participating in the Financial Planning Association’s Externship Program in the summer of 2020. The first being an increase in the number of women actually filling those professional roles, which I previously discussed.

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Exchange Traded.Income?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. If it can generate that sort of total return which is yet to be proven, and if, I say if, it delivers that sort of number with less volatility than the broad market then its attractiveness improves.

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Throw It All Out And Start Over?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The blue line is equities and the red line is bonds up until the end of 2020. As a matter of math, it cannot repeat the run from 8.5% It's not that 60/40, or some other combination of numbers is bad or dead, more like how we build the 40 or other number maybe needs to be different. That's not a new idea here by any means.