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What Innovators Can Learn From Uber Cash

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Just like the original notion of giving idle black car drivers an opportunity to fill in the gaps between appointments with a few gigs, those drivers now powered a local fleet that could leverage its logistics expertise to expand the Uber ecosystem and power new services. Uber Eats users concentrate 53.6 Closing The Loop.

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Transcript: Michael Rockefeller

Barry Ritholtz

And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. 00:21:47 [Speaker Changed] And a lot of funds that have found success seem to have run some pretty concentrated portfolios. You don’t take that approach.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (December 2022)

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As a result, the ‘traditional’ valuation of an advisory firm wasn’t really 2X revenue; it was 6-8X profits, and when advisory firms can run 25% to 30% profit margins, 7X profits at 28% margins came out to almost exactly 2X revenue. (In When it comes to technology firms, revenue valuation multiples are often much higher.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

Because going back to our thematic investing, our portfolio is 80 percent concentrated in warehouses, rental housing, lab office space and hospitality asset. MCCARTHY: — and really concentrated the business in those best markets, and then helped to grow. RITHOLTZ: Lab — so we’ll get to hospitality. Cambridge U.K.,

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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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.” Is it at 1.5%? And then we have the 0% cap.

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Transcript: Mathieu Chabran

Barry Ritholtz

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. I mean the valuation is the future cash flow discounted at a risk-free rate plus a risk premium.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

Barry Ritholtz

So if it’s, for example, a strategy tracking a Nasdaq Index, or an S&P, or a MSCI, typically, you leverage an index that is already available through the index providers. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there. Tell us a little bit about what that process is like. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.