Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

  • 337 Kevin Matthews: 100 years since the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre

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    Today, Tuesday, June 1st, 2021, marks 100 years since the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and burned businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Alternatively known as the Black Wall Street massacre or…

  • How To Move And Upgrade Without Stretching Your Budget

    How To Move And Upgrade Without Stretching Your Budget

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    We all reach a point where we feel the need to upgrade our home. It could be due to an expanding family or we could be yearning for a larger home with more outdoor space. Whatever the reason for your wish or need to upgrade, it can be extremely frustrating…

  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone (Book Review)

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    Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and…

  • Whistleblowing: Who To Tell

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    You’re a whistleblower if you are a worker and choose to report certain kinds of wrongdoing in a business. This will usually be something you have seen at work, although this is not always the case.  Image – free for commercial use The wrongdoing, such as fraud, that you disclose…

  • Winding Down Your Career As You Think About Retirement

    Winding Down Your Career As You Think About Retirement

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    I just turned 54 years old and I have been thinking about what retirement could look like. Are you planning on retiring soon? Perhaps you’re even thinking about early retirement! As you start to look ahead to your post-working life, it makes sense to start easing yourself into it. Many…

  • 336 Ted Seides: How the world’s elite money managers lead and invest

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    About Ted Seides Ted Seides, CFA created Capital Allocators LLC to explore best practices in the asset management industry. He launched the Capital Allocators podcast in 2017 and the show reached five million downloads in January 2021. Barron’s, Business Insider, Forbes, and Value Walk each named it among the top…