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2018 Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program

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Culled from: http://worldfellows.yale.edu/apply/application-information Apply at: https://apply.worldfellows.yale.edu/apply/ To be eligible, applicants must: BE IN THE MID-CAREER STAGE Fellows are at least five, and typically not more than 20, years into their careers, with demonstrated work accomplishments, and a clear indication of future contributions and excellence.  ...

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The Finance/Investment Communities I Am A Part Of.

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1. Seeking Alpha I use their phone app more than the website. I learn a lot from the expert opinions and even though they don't often translate to insights I can use here in Nigeria, they teach me how to think critically about financial and economic matters. Also I get actionable news about US stocks I own and/or track. 2. Motley Fool First, don't subscribe to their stocks recommendation ...

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Things CBN And The Federal Government Are Doing That You Should Be Aware Of

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image: guardian.ng Here are the highlights of what I want to share with you: The Federal Government has been borrowing aggressively in the last two years. The interest rates the government is borrowing at is very high and currently spending over 60% of federal revenue on debt servicing Now the government is trying to shift from local debt to foreign debt (reduce borrowing in Naira ...

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My Experience Using ALAT and CowryWise. A Comparison.

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This month I decided to try out CowryWise and ALAT digital banking platforms. To make it easy for you to get an actionable gist from my experience with the two platforms, I will do a feature by feature comparison. EASE OF USE I find CowryWise more user friendly than ALAT. Though ALAT is available as a phone app on both Android and iOS platform, it still didn't come off as very ...

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The Young Professionals Bootcamp (YPB)

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Culled from: http://youngprofessionals.ng/ Register at: https://cnforms.wufoo.com/forms/zto2kfl1pmied6/ The Young Professionals Bootcamp (YPB) is a 5-day in-residence program for high potential 20-25 year olds to learn world class practical training for success in the marketplace. 300 participants will be selected from a pool of numerous applications to go through a 5 day ...

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Now Reading Books On Relationship And Being Romantic

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If romance means reading, writing and working, I am the most romantic man on earth. Unfortunately, it isn't. And worse, it involves more of the opposite of those three, especially working. So now, I am reading two books on being romantic. I don't know whether they will succeed in making me romantic but one has got to try.  The number one book is Gary Chapman's The 5 Love ...

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Data Science Bootcamp Leading To Professional Job Placement

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Early this year I was at the Data Science Nigeria Bootcamp, it was a wonderful experience and I got the special privilege of handling two sessions. You can read what I wrote about it here: Having A Wonderful Time At Data Science Nigeria Bootcamp Next month there is another one and looking to be a hundred times more robust and impacting than the first edition I attended in January. ...

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Bitesize Smart Money Tips

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image: thrivent.com 1. Buy Only Necessities It is very easy to feel you deserve whatever you suddenly want. And I completely agree that you deserve anything you believe you deserve. The only problem I want you to tackle is the "want". You have to stop wanting too many things. Try as much as you can to only buy the things you absolutely need. Every month, I know that I deserve a new ...

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Yippee! Celebrating 500 YouTube Subscribers.

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Yesterday I hit 500 subscribers on YouTube. It made me feel very happy. I have worked deliberately to grow my YouTube subscribers, doing even YouTube adverts. In the beginning I felt the YouTube ecosystem unfairly treats technical content providers. People would rather watch comedy and movies on YouTube than a training related content.  I would upload videos and very few people ...

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Today: Webinar On Using Microsoft Excel for Investment Planning, Personal Finance & Financial Analysis

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I use Excel a lot for my investment planning, stocks analysis, personal budgeting, savings goal calculations and business financials. Then, I use it for corporate finance projects I get from both local and foreign corporate clients (companies). In this webinar, I will be taking you through the formulas, templates and tools I use in Excel for personal finance, investment planning and other ...

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My List Of Highly Interesting Movies On Netflix

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😀  To all those who think I don't watch movies, ta-daa 😜 Once in three months I subscribe to Netflix and once in six months I buy a one month ExpressVPN subscription which allows me to watch US Netflix, Canada Netflix, France Netflix, Germany Netflix and UK Netflix (I don't bother about the other countries and I think Canada has the most interesting movies). This month is the ...

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Understanding How Interest Rates Work. Whether It's A Loan Or An Investment.

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image:tradingqna.com I see too many people get the whole concept of interest rates wrong. They look at two investment options, look at the quoted interest rates and still pick the lower rate one while thinking they've picked the higher one. Let's find out if you are one of them: Which would you pick -- 6 months Treasury Bill at 16.67% or 1 year Treasury Bill at 17.20%? Which loan is ...

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Nigeria? Choose What's Good For You

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image: pulse.ng I have stopped reading what people post on social media about why we are where we are and what is wrong with everything. And the main reason is because it is an energy and time black-hole. If the people who are elected to move the country forward aren't doing their jobs but spending all their energy diverting national resources for private benefits while feeding us ...