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Taking Due Diligence Beyond Exploration: 6 Important Considerations

Diamond Consultants

When the thought of making a move “gets real,” there’s another level of due diligence that advisors should embark upon. Most advisors consider the process of due diligence to be a disruptive and cumbersome ritual of “meet and greet.” So, what’s “strategic due diligence”? So, what are you to do?

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Why PDD Holdings, Li Auto, and JD.com Slipped Today

The Motley Fool

After the Federal Reserve lowered the target range of its federal funds rate by a half point last week, the Chinese government yesterday rolled out stimulus measures. Those stimulus measures included lower reserve requirements for banks and efforts to stimulate the housing market, including lower mortgage rates and down payments.

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When I Changed Jobs, I Chose Not to Roll Over My 401(k). Here's Why

The Motley Fool

Some 401(k) plans offered by banks or brokerage firms offer limited investment choices. In my case, my previous employer's 401(k) had a wide variety of index funds, target-date funds, and low-cost ETFs that met my investment needs. The new 401(k) plan only offered actively-managed mutual funds with costly expense ratios.

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ABLE Accounts in Wisconsin: Key Things to Know for WI Residents

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Investment options (fund choices range from as few as 4 up to one state that offers 15, but a majority offer 6 different investment options from a variety of financial institutions including Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock, Schwab, and others). Investment fees (underlying expense ratios for investment funds range from.34%-.94%).

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Financial services has a data problem: How AI is fueling innovation

Insight Partners

Regulatory regimes like MIFID II require banks, asset managers, hedge funds, etc., Mutual funds and ETFs often comprise hundreds of underlying holdings, making accurate calculations dependent on evaluating each security’s ESG rating and aggregating the results based on portfolio weight.

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Transcript: Michael Carmen, Wellington

The Big Picture

At one point in time, Jack Bogle, founder of, of Vanguard was chairman of their mutual funds. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. Really interesting. Michael Carmen: 00:01:38 [Speaker Changed] Sure.

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How to CRACK the secret costs in an insurance illustration

Sara Grillo

Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. The bank is going to credit you 4.95%. It requires care, skill, prudence, and due diligence (a best interests standard of care) to be followed when selling insurance. There is an insurance charge of about $246k. There is an amount credited of about $348k.