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At The Money: Behavior Beats Intelligence

The Big Picture

Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. You can know everything about math and data and markets, but if you don’t control your sense of greed and fear and you’re managing uncertainty in your behavior, none of it matters. None of it matters.

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Average Net Worth By Age: Where Do You Stand?

Clever Girl Finance

Definition of net worth Net worth is how much you owe versus how much you own. This is very important for retirement, and knowing what your target net worth by age should be will help you better understand how to reach your personal financial goals. Your retirement savings and investment portfolio should be well established by now.

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Is Gen-X Doomed?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Bloomberg did a survey and found that Generation-X does not feel like it will be "financially prepared for retirement." Anyone closer to the younger edge of Gen-X could probably benefit by cutting expenses now, the impact of that could compound over the next 20+ years as they approach a normal retirement age.

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Wow, have you seen the stock market lately?

Mr. Money Mustache

The value of the S&P 500 index of stocks, where most of us hopefully have a good chunk of our retirement savings stashed into index funds, is up about fifty seven percent in just the past two years. Does this make it more vulnerable to a huge crash in the future, and will it affect my retirement? Its just basic math.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. So I was definitely looking for something more entrepreneurial. So that was definitely one of the key drivers.

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At the Money: How to Change Careers 

The Big Picture

And so I realized I was going to have to invest and save for my own retirement. I couldnt figure out where it came from; so I worked out the canonical math. People’s definition of long-term was too short. I happened to live in a country that, uh, doesn’t have a functioning social welfare system or safety net.

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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?

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