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

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

So you can understand what’s happening in your business and communicate effectively with your board members, donors, and financial team. You can grasp nonprofit accounting basics in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never taken an accounting course (and even if you hated math in high school). Sales of products or services.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And it was a very sales-oriented culture. And what I realized very quickly is that I really didn’t like the sales aspect, but I was actually good at it. 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.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

So, my prior broker dealer, it was Fortune 100 company, they have tremendous obviously philosophies in place on how they get their sales force to produce amazing results. The compensation, ultimately, was dependent on a mix of products, and then the investment revenue coming in. The culture was very product driven. Here you go.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. GREG DAVIS, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, VANGUARD GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Emily is the Senior Financial Planner for Archer Investment Management, a virtual Independent RIA based in Austin, Texas, that oversees $170 million of assets under management for nearly 170 families. ” I’m guessing someone else was like, “And I’m going to go on and get the next sale.” Emily: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. He helps to oversee $2.5 RITHOLTZ: Really?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, we pivoted to more of a service team.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies. LINDZON: So now the one lucky investment that I made, and it was a dumb investment, much like the dumb investments people made in ’21. So in 1999, I invested in this.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Now, there was one really important part of, of that as part of my job training, I was sent to the big sales offices to learn how the product was sold. One of the big sales offices was out in Long Island in Garden City. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to sit in a room with the Jeremy’s, Professor Jeremy Siegel and I keep calling him Professor Jeremy Schwartz, but he’s just Jeremy Schwartz, chief investment officer of the $75 billion ETF and mutual fund company, WisdomTree. The Professor invested and joined as an advisor.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

Like investing in this kind of stuff and I had total life saving for the time of $2,000 and I converted my total life savings of $2,000 into Polish zloty, their currency, went down with my translator to the post office and subscribed to the very first privatization in Poland. I want to be investing in this privatization in Eastern Europe.

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