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

Math 130

Math Planning Benchmarking Technology 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But no sooner did I start helping people in this layoff situation, I realized, number one, you gotta have empathy. I’ve been to well over 600, almost 700…I’m loose with my numbers here, but over 700 companies in the last 20 years, if not more. You’ve gotta have a deep empathy. Michael: Yeah. John: Yeah.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Planning Manufacturing Marketing 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: DPL Partners launches a new advisor-matching solution to solve for the inbound demand of consumers increasingly seeking out a new crop of no-commission annuity products.

Planning 130

Planning Technology Valuation Communication 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Everyone starts doing the math of what their typical clients pay multiply by 300 clients was like, “This is mind-blowing profitability, effectiveness of the firm. ” Or are you a little bit closer to me thinking that is just a ridonkulous number of people for my brain to keep track of? Carl: Well, yeah. Michael: Yes.

Technology 130

Technology Planning Investments Leverage 130

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.” ” Felt like a great place to start. Michael: Oh, interesting. I think I just hit 11 years of having the CFP.

Education 130

Education Planning Numbers Securities 130

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. And you’re right.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. 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. RITHOLTZ: Is that how you ran R3? Was that the basis?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 56

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 56

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. Number one, everybody has credit cards, everybody misunderstands how to use them, and there are actually some secret perks that people have no idea about. In fact, here’s the phone number you call, and you will get your $37 fee waived.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Entertainment Numbers Accounting 52

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. Less, 20, 30%? RITHOLTZ: Sure.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Investments Marketing Treasury 52

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.

Restructuring 130

Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130

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. Anything else?

Profit and Loss 56

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 56

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.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He was instrumental in getting a number of very positive policy actions passed over the past decade. I’ve interviewed a number of people from Revolution. The math never seems to work out. And it was basically updating the rules of securities laws that are in place since 1933. It had broad bipartisan support.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 64

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Startups Investments Healthcare 64

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Uh, Fred said to give me your number.” ” (LAUGHTER) And he goes, and then he goes like this and tell Fred not to give up my (EXPLETIVE) phone number anymore. LINDZON: Lesson number two. And they go, what’s street.com’s number. They kept the reputation intact by communicating with their investors.

Leverage 111

Leverage Investments Valuation Finance 111

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? That’s unbelievable.

Marketing 107

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 107

CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

Dawn +0.0hrs; species cut number 17 BNA: Compound Vocalization “chatter-zeer”.mf. The present study examined the impact of human mobility on COVID-19 cases at the prefectural level in Japan by devising an indicator to have a relationship between the number of infected people and on human mobility. Here’s the math.

Construction 130

Construction Numbers Math Communication 130

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

And I was kind of intrigued and so I said, can we discuss it, and he laid it out on a conference table and I said, what’s this number? And then I said, what’s this number down here, and he said, this is last year’s earnings. And that number was $160 million. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

Investments 124

Investments Math Banking Profit and Loss 124