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The Evolution of Financial Advice

A Wealth of Common Sense

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. You need an understanding of how the different asset classes behave from a risk and reward perspective.

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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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You can’t handle the truth – Do the Math on the 2023 Bull Market

David Nelson

5% yields are an attractive alternative to risk assets, especially since it’s been close to 16 years since overnight rates were at current levels. Even with that as a continued threat, evidence continues to mount that an ever-rising number of companies are starting to participate in the most hated bull market of my career.

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My New ETF: 100% of Upside + 0% of Downside

The Big Picture

My obvious bias is that my advisory firm charges clients to create financial plans and manage their assets. But just do the math: Would you prefer to give up 67 basis points (RWM’s dollar-weighted average fee is ~0.67%) or would you prefer to give up 30% of your gains PLUS pay an annual 0.79% fee for the TJUL ETF?

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Evolution of Financial Advice.

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. They have each other’s phone numbers. trillion in assets. Here’s your investing playbook.

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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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