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Personal finance links: making bad decisions

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Podcasts Barry Ritholtz talks with Liz Ann Sonders about how to rebalance your portfolio. awealthofcommonsense.com) On the math of a 0% line of credit. bestinterest.blog) Why you should turn off auto-renew for your bank CDs. ritholtz.com) Jesse Cramer talks with Peter Lazaroff about how to hang in there for the long run.

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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

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All costs impact your returns, but high or excessive fees have an enormous impact as they compound or, more accurately, lessen your portfolios compounding over time. So I bought Silicon Valley Bank options (SVB) right after it got cut in halfbut right before it went to zero. The latter turned out to be what occurred.

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Dollars Are For Spending & Investing, Not Saving

The Big Picture

That comp gets deposited directly into my bank account, and that money is available for purchasing necessities (food, housing, clothing, medicine, transportation, etc.) Whether it’s a few decades or a century, the math works the same. Instead of cherry-picking the S&P 500, what about a simple 60/40 portfolio (e.g.,

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

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morningstar.com) The 60/40 portfolio is flawed, but you need an alternative. novelinvestor.com) The banking crisis isn't over. wealthmanagement.com) The math behind savings rates and retiring early. financialmechanic.com) Concentrated portfolios come with a lot of psychological stress. annual meeting.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. It was at Bank One, at the time. I mean, when you look at that pre, it was, you know, the thought counterparty risk of a bank was solid, right, like that was something.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

Math 130
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Big Risk In Multi-Asset Funds?

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That I could be out in front of a bankruptcy is not a bet I would want to make in the context of owning an ETN for whatever exposure and also knowing the bank well enough to know it was going to fail. Portfolio 1 is 100% in NTSX which in 2022 was down 25.84% versus down 16.85% for Portfolio 2 and 16.87% for Portfolio 3.

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