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Portfolio Construction & 20% Yields

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The way my new firm is set up, I could outsource everything, for a fee, and the way this was positioned, I think there might be a decent number of advisors who do just that. So using simple math, the total return is 34% versus 72% for the common. The idea that I could do no work is culturally acceptable. adds another 22.5%

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

One of our informal measures of a good book is how many pages are dog-eared (corners are turned over) for the return reading. We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. Competition for capital is fierce; some companies thrive for a while, but only the best survive.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

You graduate Harvard in 1990, with an Economics and Computer Science degree, perfect for the explosion of the Internet; a PhD from MIT and Information Technology in ‘96. There’s a strong relationship between some of the ideas in the book and some of the ideas that inform our investing. WENGER: No. RITHOLTZ: So 3.0

Valuation 289
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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. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

Math 130
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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

Assets 283
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How to CRACK the secret costs in an insurance illustration

Sara Grillo

If it says “variable” in the name of the product, they are required by law to produce this cost information. If it is indexed or universal, they are not required but they should be able to produce this information. Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. And , you have to do the math by hand.

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Market Commentary: January Gains, Jobs Report Both Bullish for Markets

Carson Wealth

Of course, it’s one thing to get strong numbers, but it’s even better when the data are strong for the right reasons. It measures the number of people aged 25-54 who are employed, as a percent of the total number within this cohort that could potentially be employed. in inflation-adjusted terms in 2023.