Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. GREG DAVIS, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, VANGUARD GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s look closer at the headcount math. Let’s assume over the 4 year forecast window that 50% join in the same state as each office; 20% join in California; 20% in New York; and 10% elsewhere. It’s a pain to keep a model like this up to date with the latest staff list and compare the forecast with actuals as time progresses.

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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. Since the merger was never finalized, FanDuel and DraftKings will continue to operate as separate firms.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

She is one of the few people who combine quantitative investing with behavioral finance. 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. What was the career plan? Right, right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, this will be my shortest introduction ever, Clifford Asness and I just go over the entire universe of quant factor and value investing. So given AQR has been around for 25 years, how has your investing philosophy evolved over that period, assuming it’s changed at all?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Petal wants to change the math on how consumers gain access to credit – and turn the tables on how creditworthiness is assessed. At a basic level, that meant designing their app around an entirely mobile-first experience, to maximize accessibility for the millennial consumer group, who they forecasted would be among its heaviest users.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It’s a tempting value proposition: fashion made easy by handing off the curation to those with the time, skill and interest in turning around on-point looks — and all with minimal investment of intellectual energy on the part of the consumer. We also gather extensive merchandise data, such as inseam, pocket shape, silhouette and fit.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. And then in July 1 of this year, we launched our own registered investment advisor. So that was a very easy transition for our clients.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So for a while, I ran Wells Fargo’s 401(k) business because they had acquired that as part of Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors. Blake Grossman was the chief investment officer there. That’s the real success story, and that’s much harder than investing. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. RITHOLTZ: Right. NADIG: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I don’t know if those challenges would have been as extreme as was forecasted or not, but I’m really glad we didn’t find out. What is your process like to prepare for — I don’t know if we still use the phrase beauty contest, but that was the old investment banking phrase. Is it the investment bank?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

He is one of those people who focuses on figuring out what’s happening here and now, and is less concerned about making forecasts about the future. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. So, so let’s talk a little bit about forecasts. Ed is a fascinating guy. His clients adore him.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. You sell a naked call, you [ Barry Ritholtz ] Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. You’re chief investment officer.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. HOFFMAN: Yeah, so Bill, bit of a germaphobe, but he, you know, in mid-February, he has been reading, he’s a voracious consumer of, everything’s kind of a funnel to him and internalizes it in these investment theses.

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