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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo

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However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. This opportunity allowed me to audit clients like the South African Revenue Service and South African Tourism, as well as manage accounts for Mastercard South Africa.

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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

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I took a lot of math classes. I couldn’t give up math in computer science. Velina Peneva : I think that the, the clients understand that when you’re thinking about portfolio construction, you can have only so much allocation to a given geography redundancy to a different industry sector. at Wellesley.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

Barry Ritholtz

And so that opened a whole new world for me in thinking about asset allocation and thinking about advice and thinking about active and passive constructions together, thinking about alternatives. Can we give every single one of your employees a account or advice, you know, to their first, you know, purchase in a 5 29 account?

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Transcript: Karin Risi, Vanguard’s Chief of Strategy & Product

Barry Ritholtz

00:16:36 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, I’m, I’m not gonna check your math on that, but I’ll, I’ll buy Eric saying your, your estimate there on what we’ve saved investors over time. It’s part of our whole, you know, portfolio construction methodology. I think we could ballpark it closer to $2 trillion.

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Transcript: Sander Gerber, CEO and CIO Hudson Bay Capital

Barry Ritholtz

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. So at the time, well, I left the floor beginning of 95 and started deploying just the money I’d earned on the floor in off floor trading account. Because if you don’t include every single data point, then in the matrix math you have a divide by zero issue.

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Transcript: Tom Barkin, Richmond Federal Reserve President & CEO

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And when I went there I was gonna be a lawyer and I was gonna major in mathematics and I took my freshman year math and that all went great. And it turned out that half of that class had been the US National Math team and they had all competed internationally and they knew stuff I didn’t. So how do you do that?

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Two CFO-Level Accounting Tools to Add Value to Your Accounting Services

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Increase Your Value and Boost Your Services with Two CFO-Level Accounting Tools. Yes, automations can crunch numbers, but there is so much more to providing accounting services than calculations. Don’t worry, no construction skills are necessary! When you bill two clients at $4,200 per month, just do the math.