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What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

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He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Ever since, Walmart has consistently grown its digital presence each quarter — most recently posting a 50 percent increase in digital sales quarter over quarter in Q3.

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Start/Stop Cycle: Modern-Day Money Laundering And What To Do About It

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If they want to look legitimate, said Frechtling, then bad guys must manage their core business by the same four business fundamentals as good guys: marketing, sales, operations and receivables. Finally, make a point of consistent internal communication. Communicate perpetually, whenever there is a suspicious event.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

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. There was XO Communication and McLeod.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

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. For various reasons.

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Deep Dive: How Not To Lose A Bundle On Bundled Taxes

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States continue to grapple with how collections of taxable and nontaxable items listed together under a single sales price should be treated. Many allow retailers to only pay taxes on the portions of their bundles’ sales prices that refer to taxable items, a process known as “unbundling.”

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Is Advisor Technology Making Planning Faster… Or Better?

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As while advisors certainly can leverage technology to create faster and more efficient back-office processes that help scale a growing practice, the key point is that new technology tools can also help advisors engage in better conversations through innovative presentation tools (e.g., Leverage the back office to the sky.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 17-18) 2022

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How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. First, it is important for firm owners to create a regularly scheduled process to reassess fees and communicate them to their clients. And while Buffett was naturally gifted in math, he was initially scared of public speaking.

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