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Counting Out The Green On St. Patrick’s Day

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That’s because people drink fancier things on those holidays — and usually in concentrated windows of time. For those doing the math at home, that clocks in at $4 billion spent on green beer, the obligatory “Kiss me, I’m Irish” shirt and, of course, the Shamrock Shake. About 60 percent of Americans are expected to celebrate St.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

And Tom has helped with the introduction of GMO’s first retail product, the quality ETF stock symbol Q-L-T-Y-G-M-O has been institutional since they launched in 1977. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. GMO has released last quarter their first retail product an ETFI love the symbol QLTY.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (December 2022)

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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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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

Barry Ritholtz

And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. 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.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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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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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

And I was a math nerd as a kid. If you’ve got a undifferentiated, crappy retailer and you’re saying it’s going to have $5 of free cash flow in five years, and you’ve got Visa, MasterCard, most of the magnificent seven, and you say that’s $5, they’re not the same. You have so much more certainty.