The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Ivanka said, oh no, you don’t have to be able to do math to do real estate 00:20:13 [Speaker Changed] Or investing for that math.

Math

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And I kept roughly half the profits and there was no training. Oh my God profit. Not, not for me, $500 trading profit. Not, not for me, $500 trading profit. So you need to have multiple strategies to develop persistent profitability. Hey, congratulations.

Profit and Loss

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Breaking down the Math. The scope of manual work is also quite large and covers categories such as budgets, month-end closes, and forecasts. As we learned from Lego, this can propel profits to a whole new level. Based on the findings, FP&A teams spend at least 2 hours each week on manual processes. billion lost.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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. And I — I — I don’t like to ask people for predictions and forecasts, but you’re looking at the flows and you get client questions all the time. I was econ and kind of geeky.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. But we don’t trade on a 10-year forecast. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. 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. And it was just such a good reminder that like, there was no ability to forecast this. And that’s sort of the math.

Treasury