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Accountant vs. Financial Advisor: What Are Your Goals & Who Will Help You Get There?

Zoe Financial

CFAs also show accounting, economics, portfolio management, and security analysis knowledge. Additionally, CFAs typically work in portfolio management, research, consulting, risk analysis, and risk management. Accountant An accountant works with individuals or businesses to manage their finances.

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An Insight into Investment Advisor Courses and Training Programs

International College of Financial Planning

Financial Risk Manager (FRM) – If you love solving problems and wish to help your clients mitigate risks you can turn your attention to a career as a Financial Risk Manager. You can also undertake the globally recognized course in risk management from GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals).

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Transcript: Michael Rockefeller

The Big Picture

There are about 13 different portfolio managers each focused on a different sub-sector. And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. You have 13 portfolio managers plus including you and Carl.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

And the third, the one that nobody talks about is risk management. Risk management. And so that’s not just, we talk about risk management in terms of buying at a big discount to intrinsic value and then that gives you that capital sort of buffer. That’s a long time. It’s a long time.

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Sustainable Sovereigns: Integrating ESG Analysis into Government Debt Research

Brown Advisory

Focus on Risks and Opportunities: Our ESG research approach seeks to assess ESG risk management, and identify sustainable opportunities that address key environmental and/or social challenges, which we believe can lead to improved performance and impact. Our approach is consistent and systematic across our platform.

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Sustainable Sovereigns: Integrating ESG Analysis into Government Debt Research

Brown Advisory

Focus on Risks and Opportunities: Our ESG research approach seeks to assess ESG risk management, and identify sustainable opportunities that address key environmental and/or social challenges, which we believe can lead to improved performance and impact. Our approach is consistent and systematic across our platform.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfolio management and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%.

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