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Industry (HBO): Could a TV Show About Investment Banking Be “One of the Best of the Decade?”

Mergers and Inquisitions

When Industry on HBO premiered in 2020, I watched the first few episodes, got distracted, and didn’t even finish Season 1. If you’re not familiar with it, the show follows several young graduates who start working in sales & trading and investment banking at JP Morgan Pierpoint & Co.

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Unpacking the 20 most impact financial regulations from the last 20 years

The TRADE

The SEC’s Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI): Next up on our list is the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI), which was put into place in June 2020 as a means to enhancing investor protection and promoting greater transparency and accountability in the provision of investment advice.

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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Mergers and Inquisitions

Ive said before that nothing on this site is meant to be investment advice. That said, my annual investment/market updates always get a lot of traffic, so I thought it might be interesting to follow up on this years update with more of an advice article. The perfect example is COVID in the first quarter of 2020.