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Estate Planning Strategy: Leveraging CFP® Certification Expertise

International College of Financial Planning

Continuous Portfolio Monitoring:  As financial markets are dynamic in nature, a CFP® professional remains vigilant, recalibrating investment strategy in response to market shifts or economic blueprint alterations. Maintaining open communication channels between these two pillars of the financial foundation is imperative.

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Accountant vs. Financial Advisor: What Are Your Goals & Who Will Help You Get There?

Zoe Financial

CFAs also show accounting, economics, portfolio management, and security analysis knowledge. Additionally, CFAs typically work in portfolio management, research, consulting, risk analysis, and risk management. Individuals with a CFA must complete three exams and have at least three years of work experience.

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Irrational Behaviour, Rational Investing: How We Overcome Our Biases

Brown Advisory

We focus on delivering attractive long-term performance by investing in a concentrated portfolio of companies that uniquely solve problems for their customers and generate attractive economics for shareholders. The goal of capital allocation is to improve the risk-adjusted returns of our portfolio.

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How Finance Students Need to Prepare as Independent Professionals in Post-COVID World

International College of Financial Planning

Besides affecting our personal lives and disrupting it completely, the coronavirus pandemic has taken a severe toll on the economic condition of the country too. They will prove to be one of the pioneer economic drivers that will help restore balance to the ensuing precarious condition. What is worse is that this is not over yet.

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Is Risk Listing a Reliable Risk Management Practice?

Risk Management Guru

More attention should be paid on the risks, recognizing how fundamental a well-balanced coordination between the various management functions is (Waring and Glendon, 1998). ‘Further Thoughts on the Utility of Risk Matrices’ Risk Analysis , 33 (11), pp.2068-2078. ‘What’s Wrong with Risk Matrices?’

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

Consequently, the correlations between our financial investments are low (aside from Mastercard and Visa) and this sector doesn’t show up as an outlier risk – notably it is well below our 5% “watch closely” level. Consequently, the cross correlations are high as is factor risk; sectors are a blunt instrument.

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Beyond Bottom-Up

Brown Advisory

On the risk side, our analysts’ fundamental research helps them reduce the probability of a calamitous stock-specific event; likewise, our independent risk monitoring and reporting helps reduce the potential blowback from a calamitous market or economic event.