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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. Whereas the ETF is designed to be a more straightforward s and p 500 US only equity strategy 00:29:26 [Speaker Changed] And it’s concentrated 35 large cap stocks.

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He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. Ken Rogoff is an esteemed professor of economics at Harvard University. Its infrastructure is highly concentrated in China – 70 percent of all mining capacity is located there and controlled by four mining companies in China.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. It was at Bank One, at the time.

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Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

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I could go back and tell a story that I was a double major in economics and sociology, and financial planning was a perfect fit. And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend. And we can run all the math about how to do that.” Natalie: Right. Michael: Right?

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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I think the industry likes to tell a story that one of the big drivers from insurance and brokerage firms to RIAs is essentially the economics of it. And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” And the economics, they ultimately worked out long term.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. 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. So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny? How would you have done? RITHOLTZ: Really interesting.

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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Because the economics of profitability start showing up particularly when you’re starting to hire other advisors and staff and team. You really have to start crystalizing an org chart and who does what, and clarifying roles and responsibilities. And the reality is just no one really trains us to do this. Cean: Correct.