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"Ex-Guns N&amp;#039; Roses bass player Duff McKagan has started a money management firm for musicians. Speaking to Fortune, McKagan said that he decided to educate himself on finance after his pancreas ruptured in 1994. The rocker enrolled in a finance course at Santa Monica Community College and later began to study at Seattle University&amp;#039;s Albers School of Business. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not a financial planner - I was just trying to figure this out for myself. I didn&amp;#039;t want to be 60 years old and broke, having made all this money in my 20s... that was my simple goal,&amp;quot; McKagan said. The former Velvet Revolver member started the firm, Meridian Rock, along with British investor Andy Bottomley to aid other musicians with their finances. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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