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

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I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. It provided an in-depth understanding of emerging markets including consumer needs across culture, languages, and economic landscape.

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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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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. And the economics, they ultimately worked out long term. That’s it.

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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. Risk management. What is that?

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How To Accelerate Client Growth As An Advice-Only Firm

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It’s why we tend to also do investment management, or also do something to implement. And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. And a lot of times, that just generates more business too.

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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Because the economics of profitability start showing up particularly when you’re starting to hire other advisors and staff and team. Cean: No, we usually want to make sure that we’re hitting on risk management, so we look at insurances. And the reality is just no one really trains us to do this.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. It’s also being part of the senior team that runs Vanguard, the business of Vanguard, right? RITHOLTZ: Right.