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Searching For Bobby Shiller

The Irrelevant Investor

Ben and I are doing this new thing for Animal Spirits where we post a couple of show highlights on YouTube. Check out the first one below. [link] Subscribe to the channel so you never miss an update. The post Searching For Bobby Shiller appeared first on The Irrelevant Investor.

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The Top 25 Financial Advisor Blogs You Should Be Paying Attention To

Midstream Marketing

As someone who has been an active part of the world of digital marketing and wealth management and financial planning for the last decade and a half, it’s easy to see why staying current on all the latest tips, tricks, best practices and trends in the industry is important. After all, how can you advise your own clients on the best course of action to take if you’re not actually sure what it is yourself?

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Distribution

The Irrelevant Investor

Pacer Financial has $4.8 billion in assets under management, which is impressive, given that they're less than five years old and are in an incredibly competitive industry. They recently gave an interview with ETF.com to talk about their growth. ETF.com: What do you see as the firm's core strengths? O’Hara: No.1: distribution. No. 2: innovation. No. 3: An underdog's insecurity about competition and wanting to win.

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Explainable Beta

The Irrelevant Investor

It's been a mixed bag for factor investors. I suspect this is always the case. The chart below shows some of the most common factors: value, min vol, momentum, quality, and dividends (I used all iShares products ). It's interesting that the two factors that outperformed since July 2013 (earliest common inception date), are min vol and momentum. These are two strategies that rely on past performance and have little to do with fundamental factors like earnings growth or value or anything to do wit

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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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Animal Spirits On Speed

The Irrelevant Investor

Ben and I recorded Animal Spirits last week in the same room. We were in a podcast booth, conducted by our producer Mathew Passy and shot by our new videographer, Duncan Hill. It was a unique experience for us given that we're usually not in the same room when we record, and when we do, there usually aren't hundreds of people walking by us. We got a lot of feedback on this one, mainly, "Michael, you said literally 400 times", and "Did you guys take speed before recording?

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Animal Spirits: Michael’s Brain Fart

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts. Mention Animal Spirits to receive 20% off (*New YCharts users only) On today's show we discuss A chart can only move in three different directions Can feelings set off a recession? The influencer bubble is popping Fake meat (survey) VC returns The Amazon podcast Listen here Recommendations Super Pumped Alex McKnight series (not a joke) Tweets [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] The post Animal Spirits: Michael’s Brain Fart appeared firs

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