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 we can run all the math about how to do that.” And he facilitated this whole discussion of, “How much time does your firm spend producing all these reports?” ” Natalie: Totally.

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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

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

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. We saw that concentrated exposure, right, with the — the — the staff that came out, that 85 percent of the world’s wheat production. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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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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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. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. I’m not exaggerating.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. And those concentrated positions happen because they have high conviction that they’re in that group where it’s not stupid to think about where earnings will be 10 years out. But it’s always a compare.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. And that’s sort of the math. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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