CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” ” I’ve seen a lot of industry discussion that’s essentially, the math of it can be better on the RIA side because you just don’t have to pay for the things that you don’t need in your platform.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: That allows you to make charitable bets based on long-term educational beliefs. What was interesting was I had said to him, “Well, let’s make this really educational. 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.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. And so, I think the important thing is really from an education standpoint, right? BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

After all, in a world where prospecting was almost entirely a function of networking and establishing relationships with Centers Of Influence who could refer the advisor, almost by definition the advisor’s marketing efforts would concentrate on the local market where they could engage in such in-person relationship-building.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend. And so just the sheer education of what does it mean to do it and then what does it mean to do it digitally, I think that was a really key thing at LearnVest that really was unexpected for me. And it’s very confusing to understand.

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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. They work very hard when I was growing up to give me like a really good education. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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