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1,038: Driving Financial Agility in a Global Tech Landscape | Joey Wong, CFO, Asia Pacific (PCSD), Lenovo

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Having grown up in Los Angeles after her family had emigrated from Hong Kong, Wong had always been drawn to math and science, a passion that eventually led her to MIT, where she studied economics and business. It was within this atmosphere of excitement and potential that Joey Wong made a very pivotal career decision.

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Deep Dive: How Not To Lose A Bundle On Bundled Taxes

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Iowa had to make such decisions around Amazon Prime memberships, deciding in 2017 that the inclusion of video streaming — which is subject to the state’s communications tax law — makes the whole membership package taxable. .

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Transcript: Brian Higgins, King Street

Barry Ritholtz

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (December 2022)

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The most prominent of which is Facet Wealth, which has stated a goal of getting advisors up to 250 clients/advisor by leveraging their own proprietary technology to make their advisors maximally productive. At least, if advisors will allow themselves to be sorted into such ‘buckets’ based on their own expertise and communication style !?)

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Is Advisor Technology Making Planning Faster… Or Better?

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As while advisors certainly can leverage technology to create faster and more efficient back-office processes that help scale a growing practice, the key point is that new technology tools can also help advisors engage in better conversations through innovative presentation tools (e.g., Leverage the back office to the sky. Carl: Yeah.

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What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

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He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Instead of building its own hardware, Walmart Pay is leveraging Google’s platform to drive its voice-activated commerce channel forward. Will Wallets Drive the Future of Retail?

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Dropping A B/D License Without Dropping Current B/D Platform

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And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. And that is a very simple, it’s easy to communicate, and it’s very clear. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces. And I also prefer simple.

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