CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In our 101st episode of Kitces & Carl, Michael Kitces and client communication expert Carl Richards discuss the challenges advisors face in setting fees commensurate to their service offerings and the importance of charging sustainable fees to help businesses flourish. I could do the rough math on his firm. If you charge 1.1

Math 130

Math Planning Benchmarking Technology 130

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. 00:51:34 [Speaker Changed] Right.

Investments 59

Investments Math Risk Management Benchmarking 59

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

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.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Marketing Treasury 52

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: And so, one of the things that we did was we started communicating more frequently with our clients. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah.

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Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 119

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

First, it is important for firm owners to create a regularly scheduled process to reassess fees and communicate them to their clients. But by reassessing fees and communicating the advisor’s value and any fee changes to clients on a regular basis, firm owners can feel more confident that a fee increase will be successful!

Planning 130

Planning Education Investments Benchmarking 130

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

They create the benchmark. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark? And 87% of our active fixed income funds have outperformed their benchmarks on a three year basis against their benchmarks.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 52

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. The second is excess returns.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Numbers Math 52