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Seven ways to talk your financial execs out of jargon and bad writing

Investment Writing

That should be intuitive: Everybody is bombarded with content; and they skim or skip pieces that run long, as the mutual fund prospectus research in the next section suggests. Plain English boosts results Research shows that rewriting documents using plain English improves their effectiveness. Don’t believe the research?

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"Rule Breaker Investing" Essays From Yesterday, Vol. 6

The Motley Fool

Further in 1951, the typical mutual fund held stocks in its portfolio for an average of six years. The holding period for actively managed equity funds today just one year. A great example occurred recently with Rule Breakers recommendation, source FIRE, ticker symbol FIRE, documented by Fool community member Danny Vena.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. I wish more mutual funds and ETFs showed that data. What’s it like running a public company?

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Celebrating Shakespeare; Talking About Investing

The Motley Fool

Andy Cross: David, ETFs, mutual funds, they operate by very strict rules on how they allocate their capital. In this case, for actively managed funds that are rebalancing every quarter, which as you mentioned, at the end of the quarter, beginning next quarter, they do selling and buying to match up the stocks and the positions.

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Transcript: Natalie Wolfsen, Orion CEO

The Big Picture

And then I fell in love with technology and product development, moved from there to strategy, then moved from there to investment product development, worked on Schwab’s first ETF offerings, their equity mutual funds, fixed income mutual funds. I was a public company, CEO, I enjoyed working with investors.

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Storytelling With Morgan Housel, Randi Zuckerberg, and David Gardner

The Motley Fool

Because everything is on the blockchain, it's documented that I'm one of the earlier women that invested in Bitcoin. As I think back to close here, friends, I'm thinking about, we look at other companies, family based companies. They own such a big, impressive company. Mutual funds are in and out.

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