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Five Ways to Build Your Wealth: A Guide

Strategy Driven

If your investment horizon is long-term, you can afford to take on more risk considering you’ll have ample time to ride out market fluctuations. Some ways to diversify your portfolio: Invest in stocks of different sectors, markets, and companies. Invest in bonds of various types, credit ratings , and maturities.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

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The Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services

Harvard Business Review

The technology most likely to change the next decade of business is not the social web, big data, the cloud, robotics, or even artificial intelligence. It’s the blockchain, the technology behind digital currencies like Bitcoin. Blockchain technology is complex, but the idea is simple. They make it difficult to cheat.

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Four Steps to Fixing Your Bad Data

Harvard Business Review

From falsified mortgage applications and bundles of toxic mortgages, to incorrect credit ratings and balance sheets that couldn't be trusted, the financial crisis is as much about bad data as it is about unfettered greed. And no industry is immune. And the food industry ? Think health care is immune ? Or the military ?