Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

So 1,800 clients, just north of 400 million, so if I do my napkin math, typical client is $200,000 to $250,000 of assets under management. You’ve gotta get out of this commission business, and the reason I’m here is because of the compliance guys are having strokes up there in Florida over what you’re doing here.

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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, we pivoted to more of a service team.

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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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