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Resetting Work/Life Balance By Getting Paid For Expertise

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So, there were one-on-one meetings, and then there were group education meetings. And so, I felt like how I grew was by the more that I learned, the more I was able to educate people on. And so, I started then providing educational meetings on social security, and Medicare, and other topics, state planning.

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Stakes Rising In The US-China AI Race

Global Finance

However, Xavier Ferràs, associate dean of the Executive MBA program at Esade Business and Law School in Barcelona, Spain, points out that China’s market and economic systems are less efficient in leveraging these investments. AI’s positive impact will be concentrated, initially, “in a limited number of sectors.”

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At The Money: Behavior Beats Intelligence

Barry Ritholtz

Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. You can know everything about math and data and markets, but if you don’t control your sense of greed and fear and you’re managing uncertainty in your behavior, none of it matters. I’m Barry Ritholtz.

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

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Back before it became apparent that a financial crisis was happening, there was an immense amount of leverage in the banking system over which Bernanke had a responsibility to regulate. The banks had become over-extended, over-leveraged and Fed wasn’t paying attention at the time. That’s just the math. Congress should know this.

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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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Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge

PYMNTS

Macdonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria. The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him.

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Do the Masses Know Best? When it Comes to Lucrative Data, Maybe So.

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MacDonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria. The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him.