Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

So, today, having suffered through another 12 weeks of entertaining children who’ve long since grown hot, bored and generally unruly, the most wonderful time of the year has come again for the nation’s moms and dads: It’s officially back-t0-school shopping time. While shopping, she explains why she is so, so happy to be doing so.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

Geography and basic math, it would appear. MLB stadiums have done that math and concluded that they can charge people pretty much whatever they please (within reason, although that concept gets a little more liberal every season) and the fans will still turn out.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

“FanDuel decided to merge with DraftKings last November, because we believed that this deal would have increased investment in growth and product development, thereby benefiting consumers and the greater sports entertainment industry.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Let me jump to all my favorite questions we ask all of our guests, starting with what did you do to keep yourself entertained during the pandemic? I understood then that, effectively, fair value was determined by a variety of mathematical — a bunch of math, for lack of a better description. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As a starting point, it’s important to recognize that while conversations in the financial services industry over the last decade have entertained the idea that technology (e.g., robo-advisors) might someday replace human advisors, there are still many elements of financial planning that benefit from engagement with a human advisor.

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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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” ” I’ve seen a lot of industry discussion that’s essentially, the math of it can be better on the RIA side because you just don’t have to pay for the things that you don’t need in your platform.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Dining, entertainment, things like that. So first, none of these people, they don’t track their spending, there’s no budget, there’s not even the mental buckets of, I’m going to spend this much on entertainment and this much on rent. It’s much deeper than math. SETHI: Fantastic.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. What’s been keeping you entertained either video or audio? Learn math, learn history. Finance was the natural fit for GMO. So I was at Harvard.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. What did you do to entertain them? And so, you know, at face value you think it’s an entertaining story, but there’s a lot of, you know, undercurrents in it. I love statistics.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

So here’s the math, Barry. If you have seven $50 incremental year, then every 10 year old in America, when they enter into the fifth or sixth grade and the teacher says, Hey, today we’re gonna talk about math or compounding or stocks or capitalism, they’ll say, open up. What’s keeping you entertained these days?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. What’s keeping you entertained? Starting with what are you streaming these days?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it. I have no family history. I have no, I, you know, knew a real estate developer I thought was really great. I knew I wanted to do something in business.

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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. I think I mentioned earlier, I have like a four-and-a-half-year-old that keeps me really entertain.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And so I think, you know, not to say you couldn’t do it when there’s zero, but I just think it’s a lot harder to make the math work. Starting with what’s been keeping you entertained these days? And so that’s really what we feel like we can do in that core and short duration securitized strategies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

However, a highly effective vaccine that doesn’t require specialized transportation or storage might change the math on distributing the substance more widely and quickly. That, in turn, could greatly shorten the period between the pandemic and the post -pandemic. Consumers’ Complicated Relationship to a Vaccine .

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 13, 2025

00:16:36 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, I’m, I’m not gonna check your math on that, but I’ll, I’ll buy Eric saying your, your estimate there on what we’ve saved investors over time. What’s keeping you entertained 00:38:42 [Speaker Changed] On the, what am I watching? 00:38:33 [Speaker Changed] Huh.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And so it’s one of these things that math works. 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. So we’ve done two things at Math for America.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. And yet, the amount of math that’s been produced over the last, you know, few decades is just mind-blowing extraordinary. There’s like the famous Fields Medal, and there’s some other prizes.

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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? I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2016

“Natural language generation has a long way to get before it’s even comprehensible — let alone entertaining,” said Bennett. But as an entertainment asset, it was pretty weird and not even close to ready for prime time.”. Bennett said: “If you look under the hood of AI, it’s all made of rather mundane math.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days? Which was interesting because I actually started my career at JP Morgan Asset Management in the high yield and investment grade credit research team. And I just learned a tremendous amount.

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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

MARCH 27, 2023

By the way, you show the math in the book very, very easily and understandable for those who may not be as mathy, which is basically a giant fund collecting 2 percent is much better than a smaller fund that’s killing it, but they’re not starting out with a lot of assets. RITHOLTZ: That’s hilarious. That really is funny.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You don’t want to get on the scale, you don’t want to know how much money you spent on entertainment last month. So, got to project this, got to model this, let’s run the numbers, let’s see how this would work, what the math would boil out to for my situation. There’s this gap between the two. Well, yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

That’s where you got your entertainment. 00:17:16 [Speaker Changed] And, and let’s be blunt and honest, Dave Portnoy is incredibly entertaining, even if that persona is an exaggeration of who he is, but no one wants him doing the payroll or the 00:17:30 [Speaker Changed] Healthcare. That’s how you got your email.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? What’s been keeping you entertained post lockdown? I love what those guys are doing in terms of sports and entertainment. But really, even that experience was about building great friends that I played football with. RITHOLTZ: Right. SHAW: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. And so it is important that at least you’re able to entertain that. Peter is unbelievably brilliant, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 21, 2025

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. What’s keeping you entertained these days? They will earn that market return less, whatever they’re paying.

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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

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. WEINSTEIN: Revenge traveling.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So what was challenging for me was like, actually, when we moved to the US when I was seven years old, I was always good with math, but my English was below average. Tell us a little bit about what you’ve been streaming, what’s been keeping you entertained these days. ” RITHOLTZ: (LAUGHTER) DAVIS: And it really was.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

So that’s the math. Starting with tell us what you’re streaming, what, what’s keeping you entertained these days? So when the fed starts cutting, multiples usually go down and there’s just not enough earnings growth to offset a 10 to 15% multiple contraction between here and the end of the year.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? Tell us what you were watching during the lockdown, what kept you entertained? We’ve never had a business — again, go out of business or not paying interest payment. And the question is, you know, how high we can build? KLINSKY: Yeah.

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