Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. This responsibility is challenging but enjoyable — it allows me to demonstrate many skills such as financial and business analysis, communication, negotiation, influencing and thought leadership etc. Woranat Dumrongsiri (WD): My interest in finance began in high school.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I don’t know if those challenges would have been as extreme as was forecasted or not, but I’m really glad we didn’t find out. So I tend to view computer coding not that dissimilar to communicating in a foreign language. So 2000 could have been 1900, and that could have caused challenges. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. And that the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. 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.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And if, again, based on our forecast for US equity markets, they’re somewhat muted because valuations are stretched in our view relative to our fair value model. DAVIS: Yes, we try not to be in the short-term forecasting game. And so I think a lot of investors have alternatives. And it runs a scale.

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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. And I — I — I don’t like to ask people for predictions and forecasts, but you’re looking at the flows and you get client questions all the time. I was econ and kind of geeky.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RIEDER: It’s funny you said that because, listen, I think we’ve gotten to the place where there actually is too much communication. B, I think when they get to this place or where they are today, I don’t think they have to communicate every single step of the way. RITHOLTZ: A lot, right? It is too much. RIEDER: Yeah.

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