#AskPeshev 176: All About Investing

#AskPeshev 176: All About Investing

January 18, 2023

How you invest your time and money says a lot about what you know, what you have, and where you are going. 🧐 What do you know? Did you know diversifying by investing in digital properties can bring massive ROI?💰 What do you have? Do you have the mindset to explore many opportunities for a diversified revenue stream?🚀 Where are you going? Do you have an investment plan in place for growth?Friends, featured in this week's articles are some of the most critical pieces of information on investing this new year 👌 Allow me to share with you also my Investor Profile on SeedBlink and see things from my perspective as an investor 👀 Mario My Take SeedBlink: Investor Profile - Mario PeshevInvesting is a broad term that addresses several of my aspirations - from financial stability and risk management, to continuous learning, to an element of philanthropy that helps businesses and supports families. Due to my entrepreneurial background, I'm invested in several companies and sit on a number of boards. It's an incredible opportunity to bring passionate leaders together, facilitate omnichannel marketing, and expand my professional network by creating new opportunities.Read more…

 Business Strategy 

  • DOW: 33,910 (-1.14%)

  • NASDAQ: 11,063 (+0.14%)

  • S&P: 3,990 (-0.20%)

*Economy numbers as of January 17th*

Debt and gold funds currently outperform the major diversified-equity categories over the one-year horizon. With equities likely to struggle in the near future, investors need to pursue a diversified portfolio strategy. Multi-asset allocation (MAA) funds can help them do so.Read more… Management 

  • Black senior position population: +127%

  • Latino senior position population: +127%

  • Women in global leadership positions: +8%

* Statistics taken from LinkedIn's "2022 Workforce diversity report" *Forbes: Want The Existing Managers In Your Investment Portfolio To Become More Diverse And Inclusive? Try ThisConventional wisdom is that for asset owners that try to minimize manager churn, earnest commitment to increasing allocations to diverse-owned and diverse-led managers takes time to implement, and for asset owners that favor concentration, it can be challenging to add new managers to a portfolio, which slows the rate of progress.Read more… Recruitment 

  • Organization Diversity: 36%

  • Team Diversity: 44%

  • Organization: 49%

* Statistic taken from Statista's "Attitudes of global employees about diversity in their organization" 2021 *The Michigan Daily: Diversity Is A Good Business StrategyIn 2018, conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson made national news after his rant against growing levels of diversity in the United States was seen as racist and hate-filled. In that rant, Carlson lambasted the phrase “diversity is our strength,” asking instead: “Can you think, for example, of other institutions such as, I don’t know, marriage or military units in which the less people have in common, the more cohesive they are? Do you get along better with your neighbors, your co-workers, if you can’t understand each other or share no common values?”Read more…

 Breaking News 🚨

  • French nun Sister Andre, the world's oldest person, has died at 118

  • Matteo Denaro, Italy's most-wanted mafia man, arrested in Sicily

  • Microsoft announced their plans to fire 10,000 employees through the end of Q3 2023

 Marketing 

  • Companies with increased content marketing budget: 63%

  • Content Marketers using more automation for sales: 76%

  • Content marketers using more automation for finance: 139%

*Statistics taken from HubSpot's "Not Another State of Marketing Report" 2021*

Emplifi, a unified customer experience platform, today released a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Emplifi, uncovering insights from 154 North American CMOs, marketing VPs, and directors responsible for CX, marketing strategy, paid media, or social media marketing. The “Social Marketing Leaders Are In Critical Need Of Integrated Data And Agile Technology” study found that changing customer demands, macroeconomic pressures, and the need for an integrated platform to host customer data challenge marketers to evolve and engage consumers with complex new social media channels and formats.

 Sales 

  • Tech Companies with 2023 layoffs: 104

  • Employees laid off in 2023: 26061

*Statistics taken from layoffs.fyi as of January 18th *

Even a few of the current “gloomy” economic indicators could make it all too easy for sales executives to hunker down and prepare to weather the storm. A conservative approach might be to slow hiring, curtail travel, stall investments in technology, and defer training and enablement expenses. Instead, experience from past economic slumps indicates that leaders must balance essential strategic investments with “quick win” tactical investments.

 Featured Story of the Week 

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