Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

So, whether you’re interested in learning about how John has grown and scaled his firm through a niche focus of layoff transitions, how John has leveraged virtual workshops to engage with even more companies across the U.S., But no sooner did I start helping people in this layoff situation, I realized, number one, you gotta have empathy.

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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. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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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.” Leveraging Educational Seminars And Webinars To Develop 401(k) Rollover Opportunities [34:33].

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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, that can move the numbers, as well.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And we have a great team in Asia and Europe.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. 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: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more ….

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. You’re actually crunching a lot of numbers. So we built, we did that for a lot of the markets.

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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. So, so you choose a number of specific industries or did you choose them? RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry. Uh, Fred said to give me your number.” LINDZON: Lesson number two. Pretty nice.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. 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. You sell a naked call, you [ Barry Ritholtz ] Right. It just tells you.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s sold ungodly numbers of copies, and is on everybody’s best finance books of all-time list. When a professor says, “Come in, we’ll talk about the assignment,” and you come in and say, “I’ve already crunched the number. There’s a number of them in our earnings index that are being overweighted.

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