CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

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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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a result, the ‘traditional’ valuation of an advisory firm wasn’t really 2X revenue; it was 6-8X profits, and when advisory firms can run 25% to 30% profit margins, 7X profits at 28% margins came out to almost exactly 2X revenue. (In When it comes to technology firms, revenue valuation multiples are often much higher.

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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.” Is it at 1.5%? And then we have the 0% cap.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. You know, the leverage in the system builds. And then all of a sudden, sometimes violently, it recalibrates. RITHOLTZ: A lot, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s that the, so that’s the core competency and it’s just leveraged into, if it’s a loan, if it’s a security backed by a loan, if it’s the actual estate itself. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade. So I had real support around Wall Street.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So here’s the question about 2020 and we could talk a little bit about the pandemic, when you have an event from outside the market, sort of feels less like the dot-coms and the valuation issue, and more like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, it’s totally outside of the system. They got a lot of leverage.

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