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Arthur Zeikel’s Investing Rules

Barry Ritholtz

You cannot eat relative performance. Measure results on a total return, portfolio basis against your own objectives, not someone elses. The cost price of a security is a matter of historical insignificance, of interest only to the IRS. Stick to your plan. The other way around, it can be diminished quite rapidly.

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Rethinking Retirement Planning Outcome Metrics

CFA Institute

Retirement, like life, is fundamentally uncertain. That's why we need to provide clients with more context about what missing their retirement-income goals might look like.

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Fulfilling CFOs' future roles

Future CFO

Danny Ho Innovation and planning Part of the strategies to drive innovation in the business include external presence and taking a role in the industry. Targets on the other hand encourage an ‘open mindset’ and for us to plan what we want to achieve backed up by clear action plans on what we intend to do."

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Retirement Income: Six Strategies

CFA Institute

How can we mitigate sequence of returns risk (SoRR)?

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From Controller to CFO: What Changes?

CFO Talks

It’s about making plans for the company’s financial future and finding ways to make the business better. Key Differences in Everyday Tasks: Reporting: The Controller prepares financial reports; the CFO reviews these reports and uses them to make decisions or plan strategies. The CFO, however, looks at the bigger picture.

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How Finance Can Help Drive Company Growth

Planful

Many Finance teams continue to employ approaches to planning, reporting, and analysis that lack the speed, flexibility, and ability to provide insight necessary to support their companies’ growth goals. They suffer from a range of things: Cumbersome and inflexible planning and budgeting. Stale business information.

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More Realistic Retirement Income Projections Require Dynamic Adjustments

CFA Institute

How can we incorporate dynamic spending into retirement income projections?