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#FA Success Ep 325: Building Success In The Financial Advice Business From A Financially Challenged Upbringing, With Brenda Hiscock

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What's unique about Brenda, though, is how she not only came to the financial services industry without any financial background, but did so despite a very financially challenging upbringing, and while navigating challenges of homelessness, bankruptcy, and alcoholism in her 20s, through which she not only persevered and rose through the ranks as a (..)

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At the Money: Why Self-Insight Is So Important  

Barry Ritholtz

If you don’t know who you are — and if you don’t understand what you own, how much leverage you’re undertaking, how much risk you have — this is a very expensive place to learn that lesson the hard way. We know a little bit of math. He was writing about Wall Street and investing and his insight is correct.

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Petal CEO: Using Cashflow — Not FICO — To Issue Credit Cards

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Petal wants to change the math on how consumers gain access to credit – and turn the tables on how creditworthiness is assessed. Instead, he noted, the tool is designed without fees, with a goal of making customers more likely to pay – and pay on time – by helping to educate them about how to be better financial managers on the whole.

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Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge

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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.

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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.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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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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