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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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He advertised it as broken, set the starting bid at $1.00 million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. The only way to reliably get into the News Feed and get noticed by users was to buy advertising and hope that enough consumers saw an ad, clicked and then clicked again to buy. Most users didn’t.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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By applying the ideal-target-client framework, advisors can not only better target their marketing efforts (as they can align their website and other advertising efforts with their ideal client’s needs), but they can also streamline their day-to-day work, as they will encounter fewer ‘new’ issues as their client base grows.

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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

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10 Key Performance Indicators For Financial Advisory Firms To Compare With Industry Benchmarking Studies – Industry benchmarking studies can be a valuable tool for advisory firm owners to make better business decisions. The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions.

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10 Friday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Morgan found that, from 1980-2020, around 40% of the time a concentrated position in a single stock experienced negative absolute returns. Orbis deploys a unique fee arrangement , where they are only paid a fee when they outperform their benchmark and refund fees to clients when they underperform. Recall J.P. Can It Be Done Again?