Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Facebook (or Meta, if you prefer its new name), in particular, has been in the eye of the storm, down more than 75% from the trillion-dollar market capitalization that it enjoyed just over a year ago.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Though given that potentially conflicted practices such as ‘payment for order flow’ are a source of revenue for brokers, such regulation could portend a shift back to explicit transaction fees as they seek to maintain their top line. Why going on a “self-date” can provide a sense of solitude and relaxation for those with hectic lives.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

He was prompted to do so when First Lady Hillary Clinton used it in response to a pointed question she was asked during the Whitewater hearings. Safire, in that piece, traced its usage to a number of different situations dating all the way back to 1854. Remember, it was Ballmer who pushed Microsoft to buy Nokia for $7.6

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Also in industry news this week: Why a former SEC official expects the regulator to come out swinging when it comes to enforcing its new marketing rule. Why wrap fee programs appear to be in the crosshairs as the SEC begins to enforce Reg BI. Why some RIAs are converting their SMA strategies into ETFs. Team Kitces.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Executive Summary. Welcome back to the 306th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today’s podcast is Cean Kenefick-Rogers.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 7, 2023

Transcript after the jump… We have an amazing group to discuss what it’s like to launch a hedge fund in the current environment and some of the things you need to know about becoming an emerging manager. It’s one of the top at head hunters in the world of hedge funds. Previously, he was a successful p.m.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

How did you get started in this space? I had a mild passing interest in it, but he mentioned in this class that they hired one person a year. RITHOLTZ: And so you stayed in New Haven and did not enter a training program, although arguably working under Swenson is its own sort of training program, isn’t it?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

If you’re at all interested in learning how a large investor in global real estate operates, then you’re gonna really enjoy this conversation. It’s good to be here Barry Ritholtz : 00:01:31 Good to have you here. So people often ask me how at the age, literally of 17, I knew that I wanted to be in real estate.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

They are a $40 billion thematic ETF shop that have some of the most interesting ETFs that are out there. Discuss that background and how does that lead up to a career in ETFs? I had the chance to be part of some very interesting transactions in the banking space. I found the conversation fascinating, and I think you will also.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

You know the old adage: a customer who has a bad experience with customer service does not need to be motivated to communicate with others about it. That agent represents all of the functions of that company to that customer,” Rowan said, and when it goes sour it tends to sour the customer on all aspects of the business.

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Corporate Finance Lab

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Issuing shares to investors is an important way of raising capital, with listed corporations raising hundreds of billions globally through share issuances. Share issuances also come with a risk, as they can dilute the voting and financial rights of the existing shareholders of the corporation.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 7, 2023

It’s a short read on how he was kind of messed up, depressed, using drugs, and literally had a panic attack on live TV where he was a newsreader and an anchor. And he tells the story of how he sort of stumbled his way into mindfulness and meditation. Anyway, I have a really fun guest. Happy to be here.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

I thought it was great, and I think you will also, with no further ado, my conversation with TIKEHAU Capital’s Mathieu Chabran. I don’t know how relevant that is to asset management, but let’s talk a little bit about you were doing before you were being lauded by the French president. I think it was a great training.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

There are few people more knowledgeable about what’s going on in the state of real estate, why it got to where it is today, how it’s changing, and what you should know about prices and supply in the near future than Jonathan. It feels like I’ve been here before.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Often working with his longtime Imagine Entertainment partner, Brian Grazer and the industry’s top talent as well as its up and comers, Howard has produced more than 120 films and shows, and he’s directed or acted in more than 130, all while maintaining reputation for being one of the nicest guys in Hollywood.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

When he began, PE was a little bit of a niche boutique sort of investment, and over the ensuing 25 years, it has grown to be really a major asset class with giant opportunities that have been expressed by then small, now very large companies, of which Blackstone is one of the largest. Joe Baratta, welcome to Bloomberg. Happy to be here.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

He says there’s an important difference between simply “digitizing” your company (by, for example, automating tasks) and truly transforming it digitally, which goes beyond technology to develop the people and processes that make up a firm’s culture. The long-term promise, but short-term dangers, of the metaverse.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

If you’re at all interested in thinking about asset allocation, top-down analysis, how to think about the world of investing, not as a stock picker, but as a broad macro perspective, none better than Rich Bernstein. It was Wall Street, so I don’t want to make it sound like we were all best buddies or anything.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

It’s so great to be here. RITHOLTZ: It’s great to have you. RITHOLTZ: It’s great to have you.   The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brian Hamburger, MarketCounsel , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest. We retained your firm.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline. The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

If you’re interested in what it’s like investing in emerging market debt, how that part of the investment firm has changed over the decades as the world itself has changed. It really is a very, very different approach than what we think of as typical equity investing.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Japan and South Korea are facing difficult decisions over Washington’s intensifying conflict with Beijing. Seoul and Tokyo need look no further than how Washington’s allies in Europe are suffering in their efforts against Russia for an example of the sacrifices the US will demand. By Conor Gallagher.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

His most recent book, Power Failure, about the rise and fall of General Electric is really a fascinating history, with some fun stories and a lot of really interesting gossip throughout it. It’s deeply researched, deeply reported, and really a very enjoyable read. It’s great to be here.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And it’s turned into a $100 million business with incredible investors and just a huge brand on the internet. And it’s turned into a $100 million business with incredible investors and just a huge brand on the internet. How do you hire people? How do you go out and find investors? And that was 15 years ago.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Also in industry news this week: The Biden administration has extended the student loan payment pause out to as far as August 31, 2023 amid legal battles over its broader student loan relief plan. Why RIA M&A activity has slowed down since October and how deal structures could be affected in the current economic environment.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Really a fascinating career, a really, really interesting person. If you’re at all interested in that, you’ll find this to be an absolutely masterclass in how legislation is assembled, how it’s shepherded through the house, through the senate, through all the competing interest groups.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But it turns out that David was looking at how people change their minds, how you persuade people and he thought the answer was found in all of these cognitive errors. And as it turns out, that approach is all wrong and his mea culpa is essentially this book, “How Minds Change.”

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Patient readers, I have been gifted with a terrible head cold that peaked on Xmas Day and is now slowly passing on, leaving in its wake a lot of sneezing and grumbling. (No, No, it’s not Covid. One can only wonder why…. By Lambert Strether of Corrente. So I’m feeling a little uninspired. Bird Song of the Day. On hotel roof.”

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

What a fascinating career and really incredibly interesting person. How much fun is that? SUNSTEIN: Well, I’d say it was amazing.  The transcript from this week’s MiB Cass Sunstein on Decision Making , is below. I guess life is easy when your co-authors are all Nobel laureates or George Lucas.

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