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Q&A with finance leader: Lead with context, coach with content

Future CFO

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. This role broadened my understanding of the intricacies of financial oversight and enterprise risk management. Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Walmart Pays Pays Off, Marketplace Lending Falls Off

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Walmart Pay comes to market with a few built-in advantages: it leverages the Walmart.com app, which is used by 20M+ people roaming around their stores each month, it works on every sort of smartphone out there, and they control the POS in all of their stores, just like Starbucks does. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. SALISBURY: And accountant seemed like a reasonable option. And I kind of stumbled my way into accounting. That background of being an accountant was just great bedrock training. RITHOLTZ: Sure. Very different fields.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. You’re obtaining clients. And that wasn’t scalable.

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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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.”

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

Barry Ritholtz

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there. Why covered calls?

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How To Accelerate Client Growth As An Advice-Only Firm

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It’s why we tend to also do investment management, or also do something to implement. And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. I can’t open accounts for them. Go rebalance this.

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