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Q&A: Your Money Map

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Many, if not most, investing books aim to teach people how TO invest. The book is broken down into four categories of things not to do when youre investing. *The The second section of your book focuses on Bad Numbers, or in other words, misleading numbers that could drive the economy, the markets and ultimately, your investments.

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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

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I filled the book with my favorite errors made by ordinary investors, billionaires, and everyone in between (including myself) and how to avoid them. The article suggests they were more interested in their own financial well-being than that of their clients. Both were possible; neither was analyst consensus at the time.

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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

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I took a lot of math classes. I couldn’t give up math in computer science. There’s interesting clients, there’s quite a lot of us partners there. I mean, I was in Zurich, but I was serving a lot of the European clients. But then it’s up to the client to implement it. at Wellesley.

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Transcript: Steve Laipply, Global Co-Head of Bond ETFs at BlackRock

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It’s sort of like math with dollar signs attached to it. Steve Laipply : Yeah, so I, I think that group, the idea was to work with institutional clients to really help them manage risk, right? 00:55:52 [Speaker Changed] Good, good advice for anyone listening, let’s talk about books. I really like it. I was hooked.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

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But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. Two, I got my first Wall Street bonus three, I sold another book, which meant I got a big advance. And a, a number of things happened.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

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I knew that I wanted to work with clients. And, you know, she had kind of gone to bat very controversially asking the bank to protect clients on, on some of the products that had gone bad. All the clients were getting proprietary Sanford Bernstein asset Management product. So I took the plunge, I quit.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

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My biggest client turned out to be the Merrill Lynch Investment Strategy Group. Went back and got my MBA, and after a while, without sounding stupid about this, realized I was a, I knew more about this stuff than many of my clients did. But the heart of the firm was still on the private client side for any number of strategic reasons.

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