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.

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I think what caught my attention is that it’s someone with very good maths skills and I think that’s when it started off and it planted a seed in my heart to say this is exactly what I want to do. I also then started implementing very strong compliance processes, having soft audits in preparation for the audit.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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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. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. But he was wonderfully successful in the insurance environment.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. And part of the reason we don’t sell anything else is because I came from the world where there was tons of compliance, tons of paperwork.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

So, that’s the number one thing that I learned because when I really just lived full time in that box, I wasn’t understanding how much other life was happening around me. I felt like I would just be a number. He got a lot of phone numbers. My numbers were terrible. He said, “Hey, your numbers suck.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

And so, that’s how this actually started was, at first, I knew I wanted to just get a deeper dive into our numbers, into our business, our process, and, so, I engaged in the CFO solutions services. So, compliance requires us to keep our financial-planning practice and our estate-planning practice separate. Anh: Right.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. Instead of surgically targeting only those bad dudes, and advocating the use of the software tools in place today that make compliance to state usury laws indisputable, the CFPB would rather take a sledgehammer to the entire industry.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number. BERRUGA: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. Less, 20, 30%? And — RITHOLTZ: What?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. And it’s based on what your assets under management are, your number of accounts. One of our advisors on our team was already IAR only. Is it lower?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Number one is just the fact that we have multiple fee structures. So, that’s number one. So, obviously, those are kind of round numbers that they just input. All right, those are very good numbers. Now, that number is really hard to quantify for a couple of reasons. If I had to guess, those are rough numbers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Experts believe that number could double again in 2017. Back here in the U.S. —

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? And so it’s one of these things that math works.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. WENGER: No, we’ve definitely always been disciplined on valuation, and we’ve let a number of things go. And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This can emerge as procrastination, overanalysis, or becoming occupied with any number of tasks that they feel are necessary to complete first (such as ensuring every minute detail has been thoroughly examined and vetted) before taking any steps toward executing the actual idea being considered. Don’t anchor on that number.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

There are a ton of expenses, and they’re getting higher with compliance and marketing and reporting and investor relationship, et cetera. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. RITHOLTZ: The whole concept of whisper numbers, which we still use the phrase, but it doesn’t really exist anymore. MIELLE: Exactly.

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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.” And so, that can move the numbers, as well.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And at the time, Ameriprise had rules around you had to be within a certain number of miles from your primary office, and if you weren’t, you couldn’t be associated with that office anymore. And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend. Natalie: Yeah. Michael: Interesting.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. So any compliance people listening, I’m just spitballing here. That’s Barry saying it.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

So that’s, that’s number one. Because the claims numbers were better. So that’s the math. I mean, 19 times, you know, next year’s numbers is, you know, which would be the end of the year is lower than what we’re trading today. You have to get compliance. Is low, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

Not only has she been named to a number of hundred most influential women in finance, I don’t know many people who have seen as much of this industry on the front lines as she has for as long as she has, and is now in a position to very much drive change within the industry as CEO. Natalie Wolfson is CEO of Orion. That’s right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. It’s kind of a silly number, but people are going to think you’re smart or dumb based on that number.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. ASNESS: Well, I was striving for uncorrelated, but then the compliance officer in my head is saying sometimes it doesn’t come out to zero all the time. RITHOLTZ: So like the 40 percent number, what are the odds of this happening?

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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. He goes, Hey, uh, “Hey, it’s Howard. ” I do the pitch.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

“For Alipay, remittances are core to this business, and whether that becomes remittances that get integrated into mobile and into wallet, or whether they remain cash, they want to make sure they have that reach around the world in a number of different ways.”. Not to mention the 2.4 But in the U.S.,

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

On a number of concessions McCarthy has made or is considering making to his conservative critics, he risks touching off a revolt from other ideological camps — especially moderate and Biden-district Republicans. If this fails, it can only be because you did not increase the number of infections enough! — The deck: “Allegedly.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You know, you run an RIA, the SEC just comes knocking every once in a while to say, Hey, just wanna make sure the compliance program’s all set up. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations.

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