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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

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The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has demonstrated the tight correlation between advertising spend and economic indicators like GDP growth by looking at historical data. Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. A downturn is an opportunity for discipline.

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Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge

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Not only is mobile advertising growing (it will drive 75 percent of all digital ad spend this year, reaching $70 billion), but in-app mobile purchases reached almost $60 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of about 20 percent. “There is a massive shift coming, in our view,” Macdonald said. Gaming Gain. consumer.

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

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Not only is mobile advertising growing — it will drive 75 percent of all digital ad spend this year, reaching $70 billion — but in-app mobile purchases reached almost $60 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of about 20 percent. “There is a massive shift coming, in our view,” Macdonald said. Gaming Gain. consumer.

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How Different Monte Carlo Models Perform In The Real World: Assessing Quality Of Predictiveness In Retirement Income Forecasting Models

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When planning for retirement, it’s effectively impossible to precisely forecast the performance and timing of future investment returns, which in turn makes it challenging to accurately predict a plan’s success or failure.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. What was the original career plan? What can I say about Julian Salisbury?

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Resetting Work/Life Balance By Getting Paid For Expertise

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Emily is the Senior Financial Planner for Archer Investment Management, a virtual Independent RIA based in Austin, Texas, that oversees $170 million of assets under management for nearly 170 families. Welcome back to the 312th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today’s podcast is Emily Rassam.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.