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My New ETF: 100% of Upside + 0% of Downside

The Big Picture

The offering comes from Innovator Capital Management, which launched the first so-called buffer ETFs, also sometimes referred to as defined-outcome funds, in 2018.” – Bloomberg Let’s get this out of the way: I dislike any product that exchanges a portion of your potential gains in exchange for downside protection.

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At the Money: How to Change Careers 

The Big Picture

I don’t understand this imposter syndrome you’re referring to, but let’s talk about other mistakes, you know? I couldnt figure out where it came from; so I worked out the canonical math. Did you, when you made this transition, were there mistakes made? Um, how did you recover from them?

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Barbells Aren't Just For Lifting Weights

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

He refers to the example in that Tweet as a "barbell model." And then just a little math, the "guarantee" based on the 50/50 allocation would be 2.5% This Tweet was embedded in a thread; The context in the Tweet before was that he was on Cavuto to talk about an upcoming book and he believes that investing can be simple.

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10 Most Useful Personal Finance Ratios And How To Apply Them

Clever Girl Finance

The term personal finance ratios might be giving you flashbacks to math class. Then, create or refer to your spending journal or a budgeting tool to see how much you’re spending every month. Put simply, liquid assets refer to (A) cash or (B) other financial assets you can quickly convert into cash.

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The March to a $10 Trillion Company

Validea

For reference, Apple, one of the world’s most valuable companies as today, has a market cap of $2.8 The Math Behind the Growth Let’s take a step back and think about what it would take for a company like Apple to reach a $10 trillion market cap. With a current market cap of $2.8 times its current value.

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Have Bonds Finally Reached Escape Velocity?

Discipline Funds

For reference, 10 year yields have moved from 0.5% But the math starts to change substantially when yields are 4.2% Not great, but not the end of the world either. in 2020 to 4.2% over 3 years. This is the worst of all worlds because you had high interest rate risk and a low starting yield.

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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. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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