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. And big consumer and healthcare. And my high high school math teacher, Mr. Hyde, he was the one who taught the computer programming course.

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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. Two reasons.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

When you actually do the math, traditional braces or Invisalign can easily cost $24,000 or more for four kids! FSAs are a great way for people to save money on their healthcare costs, but not everyone has access since these accounts are offered by employers. Alternatives to Invisalign and Braces.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

You executed a $4 billion IPO for your Avantor life sciences company, the largest healthcare-related IPO I think in history, is that true? So life science supplies, healthcare, IT, managing wind and solar farms, niche software, and consumer, different things like that. RITHOLTZ: So talk about building New Mountains in 2019.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Also, healthcare is really popping up. Nashville and Atlanta are two very large healthcare hubs. And so you need strong healthcare to meet the needs of the population. RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? I know nothing about healthcare. SHAW: Well, it’s pure geometry.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Poverty, sustenance poverty is a roof over your head, food on your table, reasonable healthcare, it’s a sustenance, the ability to sustain yourself. 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. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant.

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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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Or sometimes they don’t and, so, your healthcare worker may have different types of plans versus your tech-company worker. I literally have clients that have 6, 7, 8 retirement plans that we have to work through. So, that’s a different type of level of service. And then they may also have stock options.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

The new guidelines, according to a Trump administration official speaking anonymously, will aim to break the distribution bottleneck reportedly created by limiting early rounds of vaccine to healthcare workers and nursing home residents.

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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 remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

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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. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah. I was econ and kind of geeky.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? When you move interest rates, the economy recalibrated quickly because the goods-oriented economy, interest sensitive, cyclically oriented. But my view is the Fed has gotten to a level that is restrictive.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

Now, They have seized on healthcare as a huge industry to really dive into, to invest in. And the difficulty with healthcare is that you are not supposed to put profits ahead of patients. RITHOLTZ: How did private equity healthcare, senior living, nursing homes, ERs, hospitals, do during the COVID pandemic? MORGENSON: Right.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 3, 2023

What NASA does really blows my mind in part because I’m a words person, not a math and science person. Sadly, it’s prevalent across the globe right now, and my experience over the last couple decades has been that every industry believes that they are the worst, that unfortunately it is bad in so many places.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Healthcare minimum wage. So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. So, you know, I took my math into statistics and things.

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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. And that’s sort of the math. He was right on the thesis. He found a place to express it efficiently. RITHOLTZ: Right. HOFFMAN: And he absolutely nailed the timing. I mean, it’s, I mean, really crazy.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Take healthcare, the healthcare really is going to require systems level change to really revolutionize how we think about our health. Some of the key partners you need in the healthcare space are big hospitals like Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, or Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, or Johns Hopkins in Maryland, or MD Anderson in Texas.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

And then we brought on our third partner, Gary Bennett, who had sold his company to SalesForce and we were doing a lot of enterprise and healthcare. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: But that math, if you really put it in a calculator … RITHOLTZ: Becomes a problem.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. We went out, we got Shahir hired, you know, but then you’ve gotta go out and hire people in the healthcare space. Like Shahir is your person.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. And so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. And asked them, how much does one of these things cost, and they said, $20 million new.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Job cuts at hospitals may seem counterintuitive given the nation’s widely known shortages of healthcare workers. As such, only continuous use of N95 respirators protects healthcare workers against respiratory infection whilst intermittent use of medical masks and respirators are equally ineffective (3).

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s a power law, this is very slightly technical for yours truly, the English major, not technical for you, the math guy. But let’s stick with happiness. But if we understand the phenomenon of power laws and how they work, then we’ll get real clarity on spectacular success, including that of Star Wars.

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