Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Here’s your investing playbook.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2023

And while Monte Carlo simulations have made it possible for advisors to create retirement projections that seem to have a reasonable basis in math and data, there has been limited research as to whether Monte Carlo models really perform as advertised – in other words, whether the real-world results of retirees over time would have aligned with (..)

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Evolution of Financial Advice. To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. Why do so many people think he’s evil? (

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CFO Simplified

JUNE 19, 2022

Advertising. Now, you can do the math when you add all of this together, sit down and ask, “How many customers did we get this year?”. As a business owner, you need to understand what your total cost of marketing and sales is. This might include the amount you’re spending on: Digital marketing. Discounts you’re providing?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. After receiving my PhD, I worked at Yelp and developed a black-box optimization engine called MOE to address this problem for optimizing advertising systems. How did the company overcome it?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Now, they are investing in algorithm companies, math scientists, analytics and things that we would typically only have associated with leading tech companies,” McCammon pointed out. The biggest shift to me is the internal focus at the automakers,” he added. The Innovation Roadmap.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

The company develops digital advertising for big businesses and brands, the StarTribune reported. Argyilan continued, “We infuse math — the insights and analytics that make our media company successful, with magic — the great, guest-focused design and shopping experiences that differentiate Target.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

It is good at drawing in eyeballs, but turning eyeballs into dollars isn’t always so easy — unless one has a truly unfathomable number of eyeballs to call a base (like Google or Facebook) so as to make advertising an extremely lucrative enterprise. We have over 100 million users on our platform.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

Different merchants can seemingly set different MSRPs (and advertise different amazing deals accordingly) with no apparent oversight, and while courts have consistently sided with retailers on the basis of buyer beware-type logic, consumer protection groups call the practice a blatantly deceptive way to drive higher sales.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

The math behind his claim suggests that finding someone’s honest-to-goodness soulmate is a once in every 10,000 lifetimes kind of thing. Zuckerberg is reported to have told his co-founders in 2004 that no one walks around advertising their relationship status, and asking about it in person can be awkward.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2018

That controversy came less than a year after Schnatter relinquished his CEO role after criticizing National Football League players for kneeling during the national anthem, blaming the outcry surrounding their protests for slowing sales growth at Papa John’s, at the time an NFL sponsor and advertiser.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

It is also believed to have been the first toy ever advertised in a national campaign with a nationally recognized slogan. And counting: The math is actually still out on that one, according to a documentary on the subject.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Not only is mobile advertising growing (it will drive 75 percent of all digital ad spend this year, reaching $70 billion), but in-app mobile purchases reached almost $60 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of about 20 percent. “There is a massive shift coming, in our view,” Macdonald said. Gaming Gain.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Virtually every article, advertisement, marketing piece, guide and e-book that appears on the internet has been written by someone. If you have expertise in any common subjects, such as math and science, and you have some extra time, you may have all you need to become a tutor. Difficulty Level: High. Difficulty Level: Moderate.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Not only is mobile advertising growing — it will drive 75 percent of all digital ad spend this year, reaching $70 billion — but in-app mobile purchases reached almost $60 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of about 20 percent. “There is a massive shift coming, in our view,” Macdonald said. Gaming Gain.

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Or maybe you just rely on your bank account balance to do the math for you. Whether it’s an advertising campaign or a shift to a subscription model, your CFO will come up with strategies proven to boost your sales. Sure, it worked when you first started. But with additional clients and throughput, things quickly got out of hand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

The merger was also an opportunity for both firms to get a major cost center under control — the money they spend advertising against each other. According to reports, both firms have spent hundreds of millions during football season advertising their sight against the other’s.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2016

Further, there are a few free offerings listed, yet the $999 offerings are advertised as the “most popular.” The questions and answers include 21 reading passages – each with about a dozen questions – and about 160 math problems. ” And there are certainly parents of hyper-competitive students in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

It’s also not always easy to certify the quality of a painter, or make sure that they show up on time and complete the job as advertised. JG: Paintzen is very math-based — and so we collect a number of variables and put them into our system to produce a match. Turns out, now there’s a Matchmaker for that.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I think, you know, what we’ve, what we’ve learned about Twitter was they may have had a lot of advertisers, but I’m not sure how well it was actually working for users. I like these big advertisers, but they don’t wanna be associated with that. So here’s the math, Barry. You all have phones.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Aside from a few complaints from those with glasses who needed a little extra help getting it to work exactly as advertised, consumers seem to feel as though it is a much more reliable and safer way to authenticate themselves via the mobile phone. But, don’t you worry, it’s all math-based so nothing can go wrong, so keep clinging to that.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

I started right out of college, and I remember throughout the early days of my career, I never wanted anyone to know what year I had graduated because I was like, “They’re going to do the math and figure out how young I am.”

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Barry Ritholtz: The old, the old joke, half of our advertising dollars are wasted. 00:19:51 [Speaker Changed] What, what’s a better advertisement for a mutual fund than the fund manager having millions and millions of dollars invested in that exact fund? And I just thought it was, it was really a neat way to, to learn about it.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So for those people who may not have seen it, there is a famous documentary, I believe it’s called “The Trader” that follows Paul Tudor Jones around. And so it’s one of these things that math works. ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Let’s talk about betting on natural gas. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Michael: Well, relative to Zoe just makes things appear on your calendar and rough math, 20 to 30 leads a month can be 6 to 9 new clients a month, and so just you’re answering your phone and Zoe is making 6 to 9 new clients a month appear. Now, for a big firm, like you said, that math can work out really quickly.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. We didn’t really have to worry about marketing or advertising, didn’t spend time on podcasts or TV.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The advertising model, as we have learned is not aligned with customers’ interests, right? And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. And yet, the amount of math that’s been produced over the last, you know, few decades is just mind-blowing extraordinary.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

The MATH doesn’t add up,” Jefferies analyst Randal Konik wrote in a note to clients. and Everlane are taking a similar approach and advertising smart online fitting to offer a right fit for anyone, instead of the right fit for one body type. Brayloa, Adore Me, True&Co. The way we even talk about sexiness has shifted now.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Let’s talk a little bit about what Operation HOPE does, but I want to start by asking, why don’t we teach financial literacy in school? BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : Now, if I remember correctly, late nineties cracks in the facade were already showing of, you know, the, the monolithic radio, TV advertising world. Big advertisers would never give Barstool Sports a look the way they do now. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. RITHOLTZ: No rollerblading.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

So it’s, it’s just kind of ironic, and I’ll just throw this out as a bit of an advertisement, but like, we run a portfolio of 10 stocks, a concentrated portfolio, 00:27:41 [Speaker Changed] 10 stocks, 10 00:27:42 [Speaker Changed] Stocks, that’s it. So that’s the math.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. We thought it was free advertising for their index, but I guess guess they thought that their index was pre advertising for our fund or something.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The math never seems to work out. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about the metrics of giving, go back 20, 30 years, and the question was sort of like advertising. We see it every time, some billionaires’ stadium gets paid for by taxpayers.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? And I think in all those meetings, just trying to think through, get in front of where we’re going, whether that’s markets positioning our business, people, strategies, et cetera.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2016

The Knot used math to determine its most recent average cost of a wedding in the U.S. For all of these retailers with millennial marriages on their minds, there are a number of factors to consider in establishing a strategy to win those consumers’ hands in commerce. What’s the “Real” Average Wedding Cost? Yes, we know how averages work.

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