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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. Now I do fundamental side research portfolio management, which I just, 00:08:20 [Speaker Changed] So, so you joined GMO, there’s 60 people, 30 years.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

The Big Picture

But today, data is widely available and it’s a key tool you can use to enhance your portfolio returns. Portfolio management was a lot less evidence-based than it is today. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. Tell us about that.

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Transcript: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

The Big Picture

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I like as a real estate person, you walk through your assets, you can touch and feel things. Essentially you buy assets. It could be all kinds of assets. I knew I wanted to do something in business.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfolio management and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings.

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

The Big Picture

She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets. She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. MIELLE: Well, I mean, it was a fairly new asset class. New asset class for this type of investing as well. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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