Sun.Aug 07, 2022

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Sunday links: incentives at work

Abnormal Returns

Fund management The Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF ($BND) is set to become the biggest bond ETF. (ft.com) Four big trends in the asset management have been in place for a decade. (morningstar.com) Corporate governance only works if shares actually get voted. (etftrends.com) Coinbase How Coinbase ($COIN) lost its big lead to FTX and Binance. (nytimes.com) Why the Coinbase ($COIN)-Blackrock ($BLK) agreement is a big deal.

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Talk Your Book: Choose Your Own Investments

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s show is brought to you by Composer. See here for an easy way to invest using rules-based strategies. On today’s show, we spoke with Benjamin Rollert, CEO of Composer about investing using rules-based strategies and algorithms and how they fit within a portfolio. On today’s show we discuss: How Composer got started Examples of strategies on Composer How to invest using Composer Having a good strateg.

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

Top clicks this week Was the June bottom THE bottom? (awealthofcommonsense.com) An excerpt from "Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom" by Sam Dogen. (getrichslowly.org) How some wealthy families avoid the trappings of wealth. (humbledollar.com) What 'The Bear' gets right about restaurants. (esquire.com) Why everyone is miserable, even though we are not in a recession.

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The Michael Scott Economy

A Wealth of Common Sense

Paul Samuelson is credited with the quip that, “The stock market has predicted 9 out of the last 5 recessions.” You can credit Ben Carlson with a new variation on this quote: The stock market has predicted 1 out of the last 0 recessions. No one ever truly knows what the stock market is pricing in at any moment but it sure felt like it was pricing in an imminent recession in June when the market was down more t.

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Register Now: Sneak Peek Into Close Automation SkyStem Web Demo

Technology is rapidly changing the way accountants perform and manage month-end activities. Spreadsheets, email, and shared drives no longer have to slow us down. Join us as we present a "sneak peek" recorded demo of SkyStem's month-end close solution – ART. In under four weeks, your team can start reaping the benefits of month-end close automation by vastly reducing spreadsheets, cut down on reconciliation work, speed up the month-end close, and better manage your remote team.

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[cdata[ What Trivial Pursuit Can Teach You About Your Money ]]

oXYGen Financial

![CDATA[ The trivia game that started it all where you challenged your knowledge of various categories to obtain 6 different colored wedges to win the game. Why are the wedges different colors and what is the relevance to your portfolio? Well, each piece of your "pie" represents a different investment that you have, and the different colors are there to help you identify your investments so that.

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A Look at One Student Housing Investor's Strategy Navigating the Current Market

Wealth Management

Campus Apartments sees now as a time to strike to achieve strong risk-adjusted returns in the student housing space.

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3 steps to overcome your plateau and boost your productivity

Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

By Jim Ruta, B.A., CFU It happens to us all. You’ve worked very hard for a long time, and you’ve made outstanding progress. All of a sudden, though, putting in more effort doesn’t mean more money anymore. Your case count levels out. Your revenue stagnates. You lose your enthusiasm. You might even slide backward. You’ve plateaued. The popular advice was “work your way through it,” as if banging your head against the wall helped your head or made a dent in the wall.

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You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup! 15 Tips For Overall Wellness

Clever Girl Finance

Do you find yourself feeling depleted, running on empty, and with almost nothing left to give? Do you always give to others first and put yourself last? If so, you are probably trying to do too much for too many people, and it's important to realize that you can't pour from an empty cup! Are you familiar with the saying? Pouring from an empty cup is exactly what you’re doing when you put everyone else’s needs ahead of your own.

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Buffered, Not Neutralized

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

A couple of months ago we looked at The Cockroach Portfolio , a sort of all-weather portfolio that seems like it could be an attempt to update and evolve the Permanent Portfolio which allocates an equal 25% to stocks, long bonds, gold and cash. Today I wanted to try to build The Cockroach and give it a test run through portfoliovisualizer. Here's the graphic I used in the first blog post.

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2024 Lending Outlook: Innovations and Evolutions in the Financial Sector

As we step into 2024, the lending landscape evolves rapidly with technology, regulations, and market dynamics driving change. For banks and financial institutions to stay competitive and meet the evolving needs of their customers, these drivers must be understood and engaged with. Lenders can anticipate significant transformation fueled by technological advancements, regulatory shifts, and changing consumer behaviors.

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Sunday Night Futures

Calculated Risk

Weekend: • Schedule for Week of August 7, 2022 Monday: • No major economic releases scheduled. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are down 11 and DOW futures are down 70 (fair value). Oil prices were down over the last week with WTI futures at $89.01 per barrel and Brent at $94.92 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $68, and Brent was at $71 - so WTI oil prices are up 30% year-over-year.

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Why did the stock market crash this year? Reasons & Analysis

Trade Brains

Why did the stock market crash? A 150-year-old investment bank goes bankrupt in the most financially developed country in the world. Or someone somewhere decides to eat a bat. Most market crashes can be attributed to some or the other catalyst. But let us not fall victim to the ‘single cause fallacy. Most phenomena have multiple reasons behind them. .

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier : A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal consequences. ( New York Times ). • The Disastrous Record of Celebrity Crypto Endorsements : From Matt Damon’s infamous ad to Reese Witherspoon’s NFT partnership, celebrity crypto touts haven’t gone well for fan

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Change

The Big Picture

Change starts from the bottom up. If you’re waiting for your elected officials to go against the grain, to foment change, you’re going to wait forever for something which never comes to pass. The most important article you will read today is this: “ One Small Step for Democracy in a ‘Live Free or Die’ Town – A Cautionary tale from Croydon, N.H., where one man tried to foist a change so drastic it jolted a community out of political indifference” I’

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Banking on Loyalty: Holistic Financial Advice for Unparalleled Business Growth

Speaker: Joe Buhrmann, MBA, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC® Senior Financial Planning Practice Management Consultant eMoney Advisor

During an era of evolving consumer preferences, the banking sector is undergoing a profound shift. As customers continue to broaden their perspectives, banking professionals must support their customers' financial wellness by providing holistic financial advice that aligns with individual goals and circumstances. Without adapting, financial institutions will find that loyalty may crumble amid uncertainty.