Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2025

While there has been chatter about DeepSeek for weeks, it became publicly accessible at the end of last week (ending January 24), and within hours, was drawing rave reviews from people well versed in tech, as it matched beat ChatGPT at many tasks, and even performed better on scientific and math queries.

Valuation

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Straight out of business school in 1995, I joined Mondelez International as a senior financial analyst for Kraft Foods in the United States.

Finance

Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. This made me decide to pursue my education in accounting. After graduation, I started my career in finance at Arthur Anderson as an auditor and became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Then I spent three years with Chevron as a regional finance and accounting implementer.

CFO

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. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. So they’re, all of our analysts are working in niches.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In fact, I was going to be a strategist, financial analyst to work for a bank and write research reports. But I found — you know, I was a financial analyst and I was literally — you know, what we talked about, I was going to go and do that again, I loved looking at companies. RIEDER: A100 percent.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

So I definitely think you want to account for that in places like price-to-book in earnings. In academia, he’s known for witty biting papers he writes for such publications as the Financial Analysts Journal.” My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. Is that a word? I’m not sure it’s a word.

Profit and Loss