Hypothetical scenario – you want to play all offense with your stock portfolio, i.e. own the hottest stocks with the most potential upside, but use the rest of your portfolio to play the strongest defense possible. Another way to phrase this would be a barbell portfolio on steroids. It would have worked over the last […]
Archives for February 2021
GASB proposals would stretch meaning of accrual accounting – Accounting Today
Every year, for decades, the City of Chicago claimed to balance its budget as required by state law. Yet the City of Chicago still accumulated many billions of dollars of unfunded but real obligations, even as it “balanced its budget.” How? To the detriment of many state and local governments, budget decisions are being made […]
New mAadhaar App – Key Features Benefits
The latest maadhaar is recently released by UIDAI. The new maadhaar App provides 35 different services to the customer. You can download eAadhaar, update your aadhaar, locate the enrollment center, book an appointment at aadhaar using maadhaar App. This app also allows you to change demographic information. The new maadhaar app is extremely user friendly. […]
Virgin Galactic shares climb as FAA indicates next spaceflight test set for Saturday
Virgin Galactic pilots walk to the company’s SpaceShipTwo Unity spacecraft, attached to the jet carrier aircraft Eve. Virgin Galactic Shares of Virgin Galactic climbed as a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration indicated that the company’s next spaceflight test is on track to launch as early as Saturday. An FAA notice posted on Thursday said […]
How to Fill Out a 1099-NEC
Did you make payments to independent contractors during the year? If so, you must use Form 1099-NEC. For accurate reporting of contractor payments, learn how to fill out a 1099-NEC. First, a little background… Just when you thought you had filling out Form 1099-MISC down to a science, the revived 1099-NEC swoops in. Beginning with […]
Actively managed ETFs with the biggest 3-year gains
Top performance from a leading active manager typically comes at a price. For the funds in this ranking, however, it may be hard to justify not paying the premium. Sector weighting played a big role in the outsized gains produced by the 20 active ETFs with the biggest three-year annualized returns, Morningstar Direct data show. […]
New Pension Schemes Act becomes law
The Pension Schemes Act received Royal Assent today creating new laws covering areas including defined benefit scheme protections, pensions dashboards and climate change. With Royal Assent granted, after two year the Pension Schemes Bill has finally become law bringing into force a raft of new measures. According to pensions minister Guy Opperman, the measures are […]
Kitces & Carl Ep 53: Using Financial Plan Proposals To Show Planning Value To Prospective Clients
Executive Summary The evolution of advisor technology in recent decades has made it easier and easier for financial advisors to build (and manage) systematized model portfolios for a large number of clients. The good news of this shift is that it has greatly facilitated the scalability of advisory firms. The bad news, though, is that […]
ISN generation vulnerabilities found in nine of eleven TCP/IP stacks, says Forescout Research Labs
Forescout researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in multiple TCP/IP stacks in which ISNs (Initial Sequence Numbers within TCP connections) are improperly generated. This is leaving devices’ TCP connections open to attacks. In a recent assessment, Forescout researchers analysed 11 total stacks: uIP, FNET, picoTCP, Nut/Net, lwIP, cycloneTCP, uC/TCP-IP, MPLAB Net, TI-NDKTCPIP, Nanostack, and Nucleus NET. Improperly […]
SBA announces PPP process changes
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced changes Wednesday designed to reduce delays in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) approval process. Millions of small businesses have applied for PPP forgivable loans since it reopened Jan. 11 with $284 billion in fresh funding. A significant percentage of those applications has been held up by process and […]