Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. What kept you entertained during the pandemic?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And from there, I I really realized that while I loved being an investor or making investment recommendations, I also felt like it wasn’t perhaps my true genius and that I might be more successful in the long run to focus on a leadership direction of my, my career. Starting with what’s been keeping you entertained these days?

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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. One is our leadership in thematic investing. You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And so it’s one of these things that math works. And again, really kudos to Paul for his leadership in doing that. Tell us about Math for America that seeks to improve math education in US public schools. BORISH: So Robinhood Foundation, Math for America, those are the two not-for-profit boards that I sit on.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? SHAW: Yeah. SHAW: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And I literally just started putting adjectives and nouns on piece of paper, trying to figure out like how do I describe the work that I think I should be doing, and that hopefully, people find at least entertaining, if not valuable? RITHOLTZ: So you would like to see leadership from the U.S. It’s how math works.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

RITHOLTZ: We’ll talk a little bit about leadership and crew development a little later. So let’s discuss leadership and what you do to develop crew members and to identify and foster other people’s leadership skills. So, Ken ended up being one of the best bosses I’ve ever had in my career.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. What’s been keeping you entertained? I didn’t know what any of these terms meant.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. I believe I love math because it doesn’t have an opinion, that’s a Melody Hobson quote. RITHOLTZ: Right. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? What’s been been keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

Our favorite five questions we ask all of our guests, starting with what’s been keeping you entertained these days? Gave me some great advice about leadership and changing the way you think as you get more senior in an organization. Alright, so I only have you for a couple more minutes. Let’s jump to our speed round.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You serve as the National Leadership Council of Communities in Schools, and the Educational Foundation in New York. RIEDER: So I mean, I’m less involved than I was on the national leadership. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? You mentioned, 3 Rs, reading, writing, arithmetic. Where are we?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. And to his credit, and this is a, a good display of leadership Yes. What was the career plan? 00:01:48 [Savita Subramanian] Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. HOFFMAN: And he’s talking about, you know, the seat back entertainment should be a streaming platform, right? And that’s sort of the math. What’s keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A good example of that is like you take something from a cognitive reflection testy or something — like — I’ll make it real simple so we don’t have to like do the weird math on this. It’s not “The Godfather” but it was entertaining and silly and fun. RITHOLTZ: UCLA or USC? I don’t remember which.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2025

00:43:02 [Speaker Changed] I think the one that’s most salient that we track most closely, Barry, is the fact that because the math broke at the investor level in N 22, early 23, we’re still playing catch up on that. Now we’re starting to come out of that now, but that math is still nowhere near where it needs to be.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Just as China’s turning on to make our pelotons and our, you know, bar backyard barbecues and trampolines to entertain our cooped up children. I do the math. What, what’s keeping you entertained? When, when I, when I had a senior leadership position in the newsroom. 01:08:22 [Speaker Changed] Huh?

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