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#FA Success Ep 321: Navigating The Financial Advisor Career Track In An Unfamiliar Culture, With Danqin Fang

Nerd's Eye View

Danqin is a Lead Advisor for Austin Asset, an independent RIA based in Austin, Texas that oversees more than $1.3 billion in assets under management for nearly 400 client households.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

Math 130
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Start Planning Your Retirement Early to Save Enough and Plan Better

WiserAdvisor

It takes strategic foresight, hard numbers, and smart decisions that begin well before your final day at work. That means the real answer to what’s the earliest you can retire depends far more on your investment portfolio , retirement lifestyle, and medical coverage strategy than on a number printed on your birth certificate.

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15 Recession-Proof Businesses That Thrive in Any Economy

Clever Girl Finance

They aren’t likely to get rid of the person who knows the numbers. If you’re good with math, then turning to financial planning or accounting or opening up a similar company could be one of the best recession proof businesses to start! You dont have to be managing million-dollar portfolios either.

Economy 68
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401ks Are A Scam? They're The Worst Scam?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Generally speaking, pensions are less viable than they used to be, the math doesn't work as well. Did somehow the financial services industry lobby to get the law that created the 401k passed? Numbers vary but we all know the numbers in aggregate are too low to provide sustainable retirements. Is he right?

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. I’m talking about diversified financial services. I love statistics.

Clients 299
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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: The whole pre-financial crisis decade or two, hedge funds crushed-crushed it. Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. Less, 20, 30%?