Although the financial world is collapsing around the main characters, Stone once again addresses the issues of greed, loyalty and betrayal.

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In between all the plotting and back-stabbing, the characters blunder into a broad array of financial- and estate-planning disasters, from bad investments and messy trusts to poor business-succession plans and power struggles following health crises.

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The Lucasfilm acquisition follows Disney's very successful acquisitions of Pixar and Marvel, which demonstrated the company's unique ability to fully develop and expand the financial potential of high quality creative content with compelling characters and storytelling through the application of innovative technology and multiplatform distribution on a truly global basis to create maximum value.

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Kochan details how such characters have manipulated governments and the entire international financial system.

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But, even with all the bad characters that have participated over the history of the financial industry, large-cap stocks have still returned 9.8% on an annualized basis.

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The game was not a financial success but has won many fans since as word about its complexity and characters has spread.

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Tenet 4: The cast of characters that have a vested interest in the success or failure of financial products that are offered to the public is far broader than you think.

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The film touches on the real world reasons for the financial meltdown, including CDOs and credit-default swaps, while focusing on the immediate drama facing the characters.

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