CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces. Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

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Nonprofit Accounting Profit and Loss Accounts Payable 98

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 103

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 103

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Math Numbers 52

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. So derivatives were a part where I was very intimidated. I love statistics.

Investments 116

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

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. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57

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. Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52