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7 Best Personal Finance Courses in 2024 For Beginners

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The topics covered are personal finance math, retirement problems, introduction to mutual funds, the concept of fund & NAV, equity schemes, debt funds, investing in bonds, index funds, rolling returns, Exchange-traded funds(ETF) and basics of macroeconomics. You can enroll in the course here.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Risk management. What is that?

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: But did the oversight, the governance get it? SEIDES: The success of that governance. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. It was at Bank One, at the time.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. It’s also being part of the senior team that runs Vanguard, the business of Vanguard, right? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

So in this, in this context of, of a mortgage now being clear to everyone that this default risk is present, it’s real, and it’s hard to price because following the borrower’s economic profile, there, there are defaults that are related to just life events, but there’s also defaults related to a macroeconomic event.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. The passion came when I went to invest the country’s foreign exchange reserves there and it was very much global government bond markets. So, thinking about macro picture. And then in addition, we write lots of papers. I speak in many conferences.

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