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7 Best Personal Finance Courses in 2024 For Beginners

Trade Brains

By enrolling in this course you will learn to manage your finances more effectively by mastering budgeting and portfolio creating for a healthy retirement corpus. From the above concepts you will learn how to approach financials and plan for your retirement goals with good risk management.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. So I applied to Maryland State retirement.

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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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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. SALISBURY: Sure. SALISBURY: Yes.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. There’s conversations that happen with our risk management department to make sure we’re comfortable in terms of what kind of exposure that creates in the fund.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. People in Spain when I was growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, they expect to just retire and have the government give them like a paycheck every month. So a phenomenal learning experience with both Jefferies and Morgan Stanley.

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