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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. She can go anywhere, do anything.

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Bernstein on Bulletproof

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

That is difficult to pull off but if you do the math on that it shows long term outperformance. Having that much in asset classes that are intended to not look like equities should mean that the long term result won't look anything like the stock market. This is why we talk about taking bits of process from various sources.

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7 Best Personal Finance Courses in 2024 For Beginners

Trade Brains

The topics covered are personal finance math, retirement problems, introduction to mutual funds, the concept of fund & NAV, equity schemes, debt funds, investing in bonds, index funds, rolling returns, Exchange-traded funds(ETF) and basics of macroeconomics. You can enroll in the course here.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. Then what enables that you have to have some asset ability capability that competitors can’t equally duplicate. Finance was the natural fit for GMO.

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Hold Cash or Invest? History Shows Cash Isn’t King for Long

Darrow Wealth Management

So when the federal funds rate goes up, it can have an outsized impact on shorter term interest rates on assets like Treasury bills (T-bills). Again just using simple math, this presumes the par value will roll over each month and reinvest at the same rate to get to the annual yield. Compare that to the stated yield of 5.6%

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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. most people should at least own some bonds), even if bonds are currently very expensive relative to other asset classes (see Sleeping on Expensive Financial Pillows ). Source: Calafia Beach Pundit.

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Portfolio Construction & 20% Yields

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Asset allocation matters. So using simple math, the total return is 34% versus 72% for the common. The more effort you expend, like frequent trading or in CALPERs case, frequent policy changes, the more you're are fighting against the market's ergodic potential. That's not a call to do nothing. adds another 22.5%