Norb Vonnegut's Blog
September 9, 2017
Equifax Breach: 7 Defensive Measures to Protect Yourself
Wondering what to do about the Equifax breach, which affected 143 million American consumers? Here are seven defensive measures that improve your identity-theft radar, make yourself a smaller target, and create a credit-repair plan now in case cyber thieves violate your credit later.
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August 18, 2017
Wealth Management 101
You know something is wrong when a streaming music company – rather than Wall Street – is improving the process for private companies that go public. That’s right. In today’s Wall Street Journal, I explain Spotify’s “direct listing” and theorize what it means to wealth management at big brokerage institutions.
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Wealth Management 101: Hire Suits, Not Labels
You know something is wrong when a streaming music company – rather than Wall Street – is improving the process for private companies that go public. That’s right. In today’s Wall Street Journal, I explain Spotify’s “direct listing” and theorize what it means to wealth management at big brokerage institutions.
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August 14, 2017
How to Spot Bad People
J.K. Galbraith once said, "The honest man becomes committed to the crook before he knows there is anything wrong." This post describe three behaviors of financial predators and includes my favorite technique for spotting bad guys.
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April 22, 2017
Cybersecurity: The New Arms Race of Wealth Management
November 29, 2016
Quick Tips for Organizing Money
Five Tips for Organizing Finances
Between years in business school, I worked for a real estate developer on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. He employed an insurance executive full time whose job was to find property and casualty coverage for his homes, artwork, and assorted toys, which were worth a bundle but unrelated to his business ventures. […]
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September 16, 2016
The Greatest Stock Story Ever Told
Spoiler alert: The villains in my novels all come from Yale. But my column in today's WSJ is non-fiction...and it sure was fun to hear these wealth-management stories from Joe McNay, a great guy and non-villain from Yale's class of 1956. Among other things, he describes what it was like to manage money for Bill and Hillary Clinton...
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September 15, 2016
Money
In The Dirty Little Secrets of Money, Norb teaches readers how to invest wisely and safeguard their money from financial predators whether they hail from Wall Street, the annuity-industrial complex, Silicon Valley, the dark web, radio and television airwaves, or between the sheets of the readers’ own beds.
A must-read for new and seasoned investors. PRE-ORDER on Amazon.
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The Dirty Little Secrets of Money
In The Dirty Little Secrets of Money, Norb Vonnegut teaches readers how to invest wisely and safeguard their money from financial predators whether they hail from Wall Street, the annuity-industrial complex, Silicon Valley, the dark web, radio and television airwaves, or between the sheets of the readers’ own beds.
Keep hard-earned money safe for your family by embracing the five precepts in this defensive handbook, a must-read for new and seasoned investors alike. PRE-ORDER on Amazon.
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