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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo

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However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. As you gain experience, start paying attention to strategic thinking and risk management, which are critical at the executive level. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. ” It’s constant communication through the year. Here you go.

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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. Absolutely.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

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: … risk management. BITTERLY MICHELL: And so, one of the things that we did was we started communicating more frequently with our clients. I love statistics.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. ” It wasn’t that they didn’t communicate that. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. SEIDES: Correct.

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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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, we pivoted to more of a service team.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. There’s conversations that happen with our risk management department to make sure we’re comfortable in terms of what kind of exposure that creates in the fund.