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Q&A with finance leader: Lead with context, coach with content

Future CFO

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. This role allowed me to drive substantial business results and foster growth across 27 diverse markets, each having a unique set of challenges.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Absolutely.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. What is that? Is, is your focus all right?

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

So from a client strategy, marketing standpoint, and then overseeing the investment team. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. And the reality is that, we know that’s very difficult to do and outperform the broader market. Let’s talk a little bit about the Vanguard Total Market Index.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

She really has an incredible background in everything from capital markets to derivatives, to wealth management. You’ve been involved with capital markets for your entire career. 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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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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directly via email: Resources Featured In This Episode: Looking for sample client service calendars, marketing plans, and more? ” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” That’s it.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks. ” But I really had an interest in trying to work directly in markets. So I worked at a private equity firm, that middle market private equity firm Yale had money with. SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what?