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!

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I mean, did you have a lot of business or existing clients on the BD side or paying BD trails, where there were a bunch of economic ramifications of doing this decision? And that is a very simple, it’s easy to communicate, and it’s very clear. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces. And I also prefer simple. Michael: Okay.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Evans, chief economist and founder at Global Economics Group, and a quartet of CEOs sat down to discuss how commerce has been wending its way speedily across borders. People like to believe algorithms are neutral — and purely rational mathematical deductions — when, in fact, they are man-made models codified by math.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I could go back and tell a story that I was a double major in economics and sociology, and financial planning was a perfect fit. It helped build my communication skills and my knowledge, because when you’re the one in the meeting saying the things, you’ve really got to own that information. Natalie: Right. Michael: Right?

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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. What, why do we think that is?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

So 1,800 clients, just north of 400 million, so if I do my napkin math, typical client is $200,000 to $250,000 of assets under management. Michael: So where do you think about setting that threshold just relative to your business and economics? So we’ve built in what we want, the communication, and depending on the advisor.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. There was XO Communication and McLeod. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

” It felt, again, kind of that little bit lower pressure of, “Okay, now I’m comfortable with having some face-to-face communication and helping somebody make decisions to enroll in their 401(k) plan.” And I just feel like being able to communicate that to clients also feels different here.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Because the economics of profitability start showing up particularly when you’re starting to hire other advisors and staff and team. You really have to start crystalizing an org chart and who does what, and clarifying roles and responsibilities. And the reality is just no one really trains us to do this.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. 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. What is that? The second is excess returns.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. It was at Bank One, at the time.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. And until they decide to communicate a different message, that’s what the market is going to continue to follow. And ultimately we think this is going to allow us to pursue a level of economic growth that continues to give us full employment, moderate price increases.”

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. ” It wasn’t that they didn’t communicate that. Both people are kicking money in. So Warren wanted to announce this at his annual meeting every year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Unfortunately, it didn’t do much to change how those SMBs felt about their chances of surviving the economic impact of the pandemic. The focus of our research is on Main Street SMBs , the mix of establishments that define the social, cultural and economic character of our country’s cities and towns. Main Street SMB Economics 101.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

It’s much deeper than math. I remember where I was, they emailed me and it said, would you be interested in sitting down for a meeting and also should we communicate through you, or do you have representation? Non-judgmentally, but let’s talk about what’s going on. Remember, she was about to divorce him.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. RIEDER: It’s funny you said that because, listen, I think we’ve gotten to the place where there actually is too much communication. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? RIEDER: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right. It is too much.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

Microsoft said the startup’s vision to create literate computers that can think, reason and communicate like humans is in lockstep with its own vision. Technology is certainly one of the pillars of our economic development program,” Puerto Rico’s Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce Alberto Bacó Bagué told TechCrunch. “As

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So in this, in this context of, of a mortgage now being clear to everyone that this default risk is present, it’s real, and it’s hard to price because following the borrower’s economic profile, there, there are defaults that are related to just life events, but there’s also defaults related to a macroeconomic event.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

And so the idea of this product was you plug the game cartridge, they had a communications capability, a modem built in, and you could download video games, almost like having an in-home arcade, like a Netflix for video. The math never seems to work out. Hayes, the communications modem company was in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. Your chief economic advisor to the president.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Did you see the Liberty Street Economics research paper? This recent paper at Liberty Street Economics blog, which is the New York Fed Research blog, said, “Oh, it turns out that people have adjusted to work from home. RITHOLTZ: The research department in the FOMC don’t seem to communicate. SIEGEL: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

in Economics from Chicago and MBA from Stanford. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. Even if you read both of Browder’s books, you will find something to be amazed at. With no further ado, my conversation with Bill Browder.

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