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Understanding Money & Investing

Discipline Funds

Understanding Money If you start with the following book, white paper and videos you’ll have a very solid starting point for understanding money: Pragmatic Capitalism – What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance (the only item on this page that is not free.

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Demystifying Systematic Fixed Income Investing

ClearMoney

More Robust Risk Management. We believe broad diversification is the primary tool for controlling risk in both equities and fixed income, adding to the appeal of systematic investing. However, both goals and risks can be more clearly defined for fixed income relative to equities. 1 (January 2016): 69–103.

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Are Insurance Companies Safe?

Tucker Advisors

These corporations understand that, as the world’s risk managers, insurance firms are better-equipped to manage long-term pension liabilities. The tools most of these businesses use to protect billions of pension dollars is the indexed annuity. References. Sources: 1. Time Magazine ( [link] ) 2. NAIC.org ( [link] ) 3.

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Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions?

Tucker Advisors

These corporations understand that insurance firms act as the world’s risk managers and are better-equipped to manage long-term pension liabilities. Even major corporations, such as GM, FedEx, DowDuPont, Lockheed, Molson Coors, Kimberley-Clark and others, have transferred their pension funds into annuities. Sources: 1.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Elizabeth Burton : I think it’s because I went into risk management straight out school on the risk side of fund to funds and, and various other industries. So, so let’s talk a little bit about risk management. We actually have a budget for risk management and technology and tools.

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Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

Macchia chimes in, saying he finds it ironic that the first module in the CFP program is risk management, which he interprets to be about insurance. He can’t get them to give him a straight answer about how that affects a non-securities licensed individual. They told him to read the FAQs (lol)! He says that needs to come forward.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core risk management culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does. So, so one of the problems is once you see something like that, you kind of look for them everywhere. I never remember it. It was five financial crises.

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