CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

We’re not going in there and, “What’s your date of birth, first and last name, your Social Security number? So 1,800 clients, just north of 400 million, so if I do my napkin math, typical client is $200,000 to $250,000 of assets under management. ” But I know just the math of that is hard. John: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

He’s not like that at all, which probably accounts for a lot of his success. People have 18 credit cards, 20 — who has 20 bank accounts, it’s you’re just what you’re paying in fees seems to be exorbitant. He makes what is otherwise a potentially challenging subject very interesting. Even just luxury.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. So you think back 30 years, there was so many people who were focused on individual security selection, picking individual stocks. So our shareholders benefit whenever there’s a lot of demand for certain securities that we own.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, we pivoted to more of a service team.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

” It felt, again, kind of that little bit lower pressure of, “Okay, now I’m comfortable with having some face-to-face communication and helping somebody make decisions to enroll in their 401(k) plan.” Who comes to a conversation about social security and Medicare? ” Felt like a great place to start.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. SEIDES: It wasn’t a question of security prices going down, it’s a question of like, can you transact? ” It wasn’t that they didn’t communicate that.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. And so whenever we build a portfolio, we think about every security has a tail to it. Was that the basis?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Anything else?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I was hired to cover, I think, securities litigation or insurance regulation, something like truly technical and awful. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. RITHOLTZ: The communication was bad also. And that’s sort of the math.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

RITHOLTZ: That’s called single entry accounting. There was not much accounting to do except how many months we have left before we have to call Fred for more money. They kept the reputation intact by communicating with their investors. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so after a week there, I, I said to the guys on desk, Hey, can I open an account and do this? Yeah, you’re, you’re, you’re allowed to open an account. So I opened an account and I sat there and I traded the, the New York Chicago Gold arbitrage for the next sort of close to month. Gary Cohn ] 00:05:28 Be?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. And so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. And asked them, how much does one of these things cost, and they said, $20 million new.

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