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The financial services world is changing. Technology is enabling an automated approach to investing that should bring down the cost of commodity services. No longer do you have to fund the lifestyle of a broker or advisor to have him tell you how to diversify or where to find the next investment that cannot be missed. This book and website will provide the tools for calculators that tell you most of what you need to know; from how much insurance you...
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Describes how a financial column assignment revealed to the author the unethical machinations of the multi-billion-dollar personal finance industry and its false promises of quick and easy wealth, explaining how everyday investors are routinely misled by self-proclaimed money experts who exploit clients to increase their own wealth.
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La presente obra se fundamenta en la importancia de los capítulos y temas seleccionados y tratados con una metodología y lenguaje apropiado, resultado de la experiencia académica y empresarial de sus autores. De esta manera, se combinan una cobertura profunda de los principios financieros y la investigación, y se ponen de relieve las aplicaciones prácticas. Asimismo, orienta al lector para el inicio de un nuevo negocio.
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This book highlights the importance of Financial Inclusion Growth and Governance, inalienably linked to each other and integral to fostering financial stability. Rapid Financial Inclusion will lead India to a trajectory of exponential economic growth with Equity allowing India to take its rightful place in the comity of nations and to take a leadership role in South and South East Asia and the world. This is a collection of speeches and writings of...
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This book highlights the historic inflection point we are in, both in terms of philanthropy in general, and specifically in financing the solutions to our largest and most urgent social and environmental problems. It covers the two movements that have recently had a dramatic influence on capitalism. First, wealthy millennials have been pressuring their bankers to invest their family portfolios in companies with high social and environmental impact...
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Is an investors' "perfect storm" brewing? If you're not careful, it could sweep your wealth away. Long-dormant inflation looks to be catching fire. A stock market in overdrive may crash and burn for years. And taxes to fund deficits and social programs look to be rising to punishing levels not seen in a generation. This triple threat could mean a financial apocalypse from which many investors won't ever recover.
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An essential guide for finance managers to leverage advanced technology in long-term investing.
Institutional Investors underpin our capitalist world, and could play a major role in addressing some of the greatest challenges to society such as climate change, the ballooning wealth gap, declining infrastructure, aging populations, and the need for stable funding for the sciences and arts. Advanced technology can help institutional Investors deliver...
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This book, written jointly by an engineer and artificial intelligence expert along with a lawyer and banker, is a glimpse on what the future of the financial services will look like and the impact it will have on society.
The first half of the book provides a detailed yet easy to understand educational and technical overview of FinTech, artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies including the existing industry pain points and the new technological...
10) Personal Financial Planning for Executives and Entrepreneurs: The Path to Financial Peace of Mind
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Effective financial planning for executives and entrepreneurs is complex, dense, and impossible to reduce to a single, easy-to-understand formula. Designed to emphasize the importance of effective, targeted financial planning, this book begins by telling a story about a fictional, but plausible, power couple and their family who (spoiler alert!) do pretty much everything wrong in securing their financial future. In most cases, they don't do the things...
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The meaning of wealth has become one of the least understood concepts of our time. Whether you desire wealth, have wealth, or wish to redistribute wealth, the roadmaps to success have been painted over by outdated financial models, politically charged rhetoric, and the mistaken belief that at its core wealth is simply a number. Tailored Wealth Management meets you where you are: a new college graduate, a retiring CEO, a journeyman carpenter, or a...
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The Complete Credit Care ™ Program is one of the most important books you'll ever read.
It will show you how to break out the viscous high interest credit cycle that costs most Americans hundreds of thousands of dollars in their lives. Most people don't realize how much just a few dollars extra payment every month adds up over a lifetime. This book will show you how (bringing up your credit score 100 points) will change your life forever. Huge...
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The advice is sound; the client seems eager; and then… nothing happens! Too often, this is the experience that financial professionals encounter in their daily work. When good recommendations go unimplemented, clients' well-being is compromised, opportunities are lost, and the professional relationship grows strained. Advice that Sticks takes aim at the problem of financial non-adherence. Written by a neuropsychologist and financial change expert,...
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The Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor (ASM) is a knowledge-sharing product developed as a key resource for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise development policies in Asia and the Pacific. The ASM 2020 Volume III is a Thematic Chapter on financial technology (fintech) loans to tricycle drivers in the Philippines, addressing how fintech affects the welfare of the self-employed and contributes to the development of country's local...
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This report offers an analytical framework that allows for more systemic assessments of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and its applications. It examines the evolution and typology of the emergent technology, its existing and projected applications, and regulatory and policy issues that they entail. This report highlights the trends, concerns, and potential opportunities of DLTs, especially for Asian markets. It also identifies the benefits and...
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The Asian financial landscape has grown more interconnected over the past 2 decades. Previous financial crises have shown how financial volatility can transmit rapidly across an interconnected financial network. Empirical analyses have shown, moreover, how financial volatility can reverberate across the macro-economy. This report summarizes the lessons from past crises, reviews the evidence of the macro-financial linkages and feedback effects of financial...
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This book is about what Mark Carney has called 'the social licence for financial markets' and how it can point us towards a more sustainable future. Author David Rouch argues that what it reveals contrasts sharply with the usual portrayals of markets as places of unrestrained financial self-interest. Drawing attention to a more complex reality and the presence of justice-focused aspirations in finance can positively impact individual, institutional,...
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Become The Advisor of the Future
Many financial advisors out there are facing a wall. They're generating $1-3 million in revenue; they're managing all the households they can; they have little time to spend with their own families. They feel like they're playing chief marketing officer, chief investment officer, CEO, CFO, chief compliance officer, and the chief technology officer all at once. There just aren't enough hours in the day.
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Despite some progress, women's share in senior management is still poor. Closing the gender gap in leadership leads to better business and financial outcomes. ADB's Trade Finance Program-which guaranteed or funded 3,500 transactions in 2017 valued at $4.5 billion-conducted a gender audit among several of its partner banks. The objective of this study was to develop specific, practical and implementable recommendations to attract, retain, and promote...
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