Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Math Numbers 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces.

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

So, that’s the number one thing that I learned because when I really just lived full time in that box, I wasn’t understanding how much other life was happening around me. I felt like I would just be a number. He got a lot of phone numbers. My numbers were terrible. He said, “Hey, your numbers suck.

Planning 130

Planning Profit and Loss Leadership Numbers 130

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. One, we also saw a record number of credit card openings in Q1 and Q2.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. That’s an amazing lesson in life, right, to take failure and losses as business as usual. MIELLE: It’s the probability and the severity of your loss, but sticking with it is, you know, what it takes.

Investments 109

Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 109

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

and I don’t know if this is from the book or or my research, Forbes settled on that number. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

Math 60

Math Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 60

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance.

Math 56

Math Risk Management Profit and Loss Marketing 56

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. Meaning, low beta stocks have kept up with high beta stocks, which in the simplest theory, they’re not supposed to.

Profit and Loss 64

Profit and Loss Valuation Forecasting Investments 64

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

Profit and Loss 56

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 56

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. So I took that. That was real money.

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Really, the work he’s done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out, and a number of papers. So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. Am I getting right?

Healthcare 56

Healthcare Economics Math Education 56

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? That’s unbelievable.

Marketing 107

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 107

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

And I was kind of intrigued and so I said, can we discuss it, and he laid it out on a conference table and I said, what’s this number? And then I said, what’s this number down here, and he said, this is last year’s earnings. And that number was $160 million. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

Investments 124

Investments Math Banking Profit and Loss 124

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

SUNSTEIN: Well, when you say directly, that’s true, except the number of meetings I had with President Reagan was zero. The number of mediated interactions I had with President Reagan was about five, and the amount of work that I did for the president was basically every day. That’s an insane number. SUNSTEIN: Yes.

Economics 98

Economics Finance Investments Numbers 98