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7 Best Personal Finance Courses in 2024 For Beginners

Trade Brains

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: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Absolutely.

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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: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. So, the Portfolio Solutions Group advises mainly institutional clients on all kinds of challenges that they have and thinking about the expected returns, portfolio construction, risk management, et cetera. I speak in many conferences.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

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. So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny? How would you have done?

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Transcript: Peter Borish

The Big Picture

BORISH: So one of the geniuses of Paul in really understanding futures markets in general is that most of the innovative risk management approaches came out of the futures markets because of the using margin. We’re going to wait, we’re going to see, and we want to be supportive of the markets and the economic system.

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

The Big Picture

Even the guy you think of so highly, you know, after three hedge funds open and close, you got to wonder if there’s some risk management issue there. since the ‘80s regarding economic mobility, that there used to be a huge ability to move up, or at least be in a better situation than your parents were. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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