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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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. SEIDES: It wasn’t a question of security prices going down, it’s a question of like, can you transact? It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction.

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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. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. And so whenever we build a portfolio, we think about every security has a tail to it. Was that the basis?

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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. And we were very lucky because we were able to secure this ticker, RATE, which is definitely a very young product.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But within the market, the so-called security markets line is pretty much entirely flat and has been in sample and out of sample for a ridiculously long amount of time, in a ridiculously large amount of places. And it’s really not a compliance reason, I hope it’s more of an intellectual honesty reason. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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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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. And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. And I think that’s wrong because valuation does matter.

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