Personal Finance

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Book Review of Equity Smart Beta and Factor Investing for Practitioners

The full title of this book is Equity Smart Beta and Factor Investing for Practitioners by Khalid Ghayur, Ronan G. Heaney, and Stephen C. Platt (2019). The authors are from the ActiveBeta Equity Strategies team in Goldman Sachs Asset Management. This is a very good book that has good breadth and depth. It covers a lot … Continue reading

Personal Finance Tips on Saving Money

Recently read a pretty good article on personal finance, titled Achieving Financial Success Without Extreme Frugality or a Huge Income by Trent Hamm (link here). Overarching Message Critically question every purchase, think about whether it really brings value to your life. If it doesn’t, think about how the spending can be cut down (e.g. store brand, … Continue reading

Personal Finance Maxims

Read this New York Times article about Harold Pollack, a University of Chicago professor that wrote some maxims of personal finance onto an index card, and subsequently published a book Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated. The original index card is found here. The article compiled a number of other index cards written … Continue reading

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