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Making better financial decisions – with Michael Carvin

Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:45 pm

Decisions like buying a home trip up even the smartest minds. There are so many variables, so many moving parts – it’s real hard to wrap your mind around it.interview with founder of SmartAsset, Michael Carvin

Today’s guest on Tradestreaming Radio, Michael Carvin, founded a company to assist with just that problem. His recently-launched firm, SmartAsset, provides a next-generation toolset to clearly answer tough problems like buying a home and the decision to buy versus rent.

Michael joins us to discuss his move from private equity into entrepreneurship, why people have such a hard time making tough financial decisions, and how SmartAsset solves these problems.

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About Michael

ceo of smartassetMichael has a lot of experience in private equity and is the founder and CEO of SmartAsset.

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  • Making everyone an investor in rarities – with Susan Carpenter

    Posted on November 19, 2012 at 12:45 pm UTC

    Investing in fine art, collectible autos, and musical instruments used to be just a pipe dream for your average investor.

    But with the need to get uncorrelated diversification and a hot rarity market, retail investors haven’t given up. And now, Liquid Rarity Exchange has found a way to securitize rarities so that the other 99% of us can invest in them.

    With technology and patented-processes, LRE can take real assets and make stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, or derivatives out of them. LRE’s COO, Susan Carpenter joins me on Tradestreaming Radio to discuss the market for collectibles, her firm’s process and technology and where rarity investing is headed.

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    About Susan Carpenter

    Susan is the COO of the Liquid Rarity Exchange.

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  • Unleashing your inner investor – with Howard Reisman

    Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:52 pm UTC

    Some of the best investing tools were born out of an individual’s personal needs.

    StockRover is that type of tool. Created by Howard Reisman as a solution to his investing research, StockRover is a tool for motivated individual investors developed by individual investors.

    If you like to delve deeper, run screens, and really research your investments, StockRover is an awesome tool.

    Howard joins us today for this edition of Tradestreaming Radio.

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  • Build trading strategies without the need to code – with Rob Johnson

    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 12:33 pm UTC

    Have you wanted to test an investing strategy but lack the tools and programming knowledge to sufficiently see if it works?

    QuantBlocks was designed for you — build and test trading strategies without programming knowledge. It’s drag-and-drop simple. Founder Rob Johnson joins Tradestreaming Radio to discuss how QuantBlocks scratched his own personal itch and how investors of all types use his technology to beat the market.

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  • Successful investment advice for retirement assets — with Brian Murphy

    Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:05 pm UTC

    Getting good investment advice for your retirement portfolios isn’t easy and the industry doesn’t make an investor’s work any easier in this respect.

    Brian Murphy, CEO and Co-founder of Kivalia, has found a better way. Through an innovative use of crowdsourcing, he’s able to determine the investment universe within any given retirement plan. From there, investors receive periodic retirement advice from Kivalia.

    And the results speak for themselves. Brian joins us on Tradestreaming Radio to discuss the struggles investors face when investing for retirement, how the market is changing, and the resources people can use to improve their investing results.

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  • Making investing smart and easy — with Foliofn’s Steve Wallman

    Posted on October 15, 2012 at 12:48 pm UTC

    Steve Wallman’s Foliofn has been a pioneer in the online brokerage industry.

    Founded 12 years ago, Folio has built a very strong following for its innovative service and ease-of-use. Folio also does a ton of work with professional investment advisors and their clients.

    Steve joins us on Tradestreaming Radio to discuss how his stint as commissioner at the SEC provided the impetus behind founding Folio and where he believes investing is headed in the future.

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