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A Beginner’s Guide to Market Investment Terms

Carson Wealth

Asset allocation, ETFs, yield curves…What does it all mean? Risk tolerance and asset allocation? Asset Allocation Asset allocation is how you spread your investments across different categories, like stocks, bonds, and cash. It’s the ultimate scorecard for economic health.

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Stocks vs. Bonds: Historical Returns, Risk, and the Case for Both

Darrow Wealth Management

Because of these differences, stocks and bonds accomplish different things in an asset allocation. while bonds are broken down by duration and sectors (for example government bonds such as municipal or Treasury bonds or corporate bonds, including investment grade or high yield bonds), etc.

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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

The Big Picture

Bachelor’s in economics and a BS in computer science from Wellesley in Boston and then an MBA from Harvard Business School. So it was Pascal then c plus plus, and then I took an economics class and that’s when the lights went off because it was a very mathematical field in many ways, but also with a link to the Rio economy.

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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2025

Dear Mr. Market

While Lockheed Martin remains a solid performer with government contracts and steady demand, it lacks the same growth potential as Eli Lilly , which is positioned to benefit from the global healthcare push. This bracket focuses on who benefits most when the Russia-Ukraine war ends and economic rebuilding begins.

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8 Big Lessons

Discipline Funds

This included: 2:44 Defined Duration Investing – my new asset allocation process by which I focus on quantifying the time horizons over which to use certain instruments and help match them to a financial plan. More importantly, we learned during Covid that big inflation comes from big government spending, not QE.

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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

The Big Picture

You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. I was an economics and English major. And as part of that deal with the Dutch government, ING agreed to sell off the US properties. So let’s start with your background. 00:02:02 [Speaker Changed] Quite the contrary, Barry.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

She was CIO at Merrill Lynch Asset Management, and now CIO at both Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and runs their asset allocation models and their outsourced chief investment officer models. But let’s start with your background in your career, applied mathematics and economics from Brown and then a Harvard MBA.