Sidebar with a CFP®: Pierce the Veil on BigLaw Life, Career, and Money
Sidebar with a CFP®” is your space for candid conversations about life inside BigLaw—the real stuff they don’t teach in law school or show in recruiter brochures.Hosted by Matt Smith, CFP® and founder of Concert Financial Planning, this show pulls back the curtain on what it…
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Sidebar with a CFP®: Pierce the Veil on BigLaw Life, Career, and Money with Matt Smith, Episode 11 In this episode of the Sidebar with a CFP®: Pierce the Veil on BigLaw Life, Career, and Money, Matt Smith continues his breakdown of futures contracts from Episode 10, this time moving from the corn field to the stock market to show how the same simple agreement becomes a more capital-efficient way to invest. Tune in to the episode to hear about: * How a futures contract on stocks works differently
How ‘Futures’ Contracts Actually Work (opens the original)
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Sidebar with a CFP®: Pierce the Veil on BigLaw Life, Career, and Money with Matt Smith, Episode 10 In this episode of the Sidebar with a CFP®: Pierce the Veil on BigLaw Life, Career, and Money, Matt Smith speaks about what a futures contract is and how it works, tracing the tool back to its origins in agriculture and commodities to show how locking in a price ahead of time gives buyers and sellers certainty. Tune in to the episode to hear about: * The real-world problem futures contracts were in
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