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Personal finance links: shaming and blaming

Abnormal Returns

morningstar.com) People work in retirement for any number of reasons. whitecoatinvestor.com) Personal finance Stock picking is not the same thing portfolio managment. wsj.com) An increasing number of retirees feel 'trapped' in their Medicare Advantage plans. Rowe Price about non-financial considerations in retirement.

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The Misunderstood Housing Market, a Rate Paradox and a Magic Number

Advisor Perspectives

This naïve formulation, DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Ken Shinoda argues, overlooks the interplay of home prices and mortgage costs with housing supply and demand dynamics. Conventional thinking holds that higher interest rates mean lower home prices – or the corollary, lower rates mean higher prices.

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MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia

The Big Picture

He tells his classes “ What makes for a good valuation is you’re either a disciplined storyteller or an imaginative number cruncher.” ” Damodaran wants the verbal half of the class to use the numbers intelligently, while the more mathematically inclined need to put those numbers into a narrative that is understandable.

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Podcast links: the science of sleep

Abnormal Returns

(insideradio.com) The number of songs uploaded to streaming services just keep increasing. bloomberg.com) Christine Benz and Jeff Ptak talk with Joel Tillinghast about his biggest investing mistake, the implications of AI for portfolio management, and how private equity affects investors in public securities.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (October 2023)

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome to the October 2023 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!

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Trying To Find The Optimal Number Of Stocks To Own

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The title tells you the author's conclusion, Why Your Portfolio Should Hold Way More Than 30 Stocks. This article obviously favors more stocks but an interesting thing not said was at what number would it make sense to just flip from individual holdings to mutual funds and ETFs.

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At the Money: How To Know When The Fed Will Cut

The Big Picture

To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Jim Bianco, Chief Strategist at Bianco Research, and His firm has been providing objective and unconventional research and commentary to portfolio managers since 1990, and it is top rated amongst institutional traders.

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