Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 17, 2023

While declining interest rates have been responsible for stock growth (at least at the extremes), interest rate changes don’t always determine our investment destiny. Fisher Investments ) but see also Mapping the Death of NYC’s Cheap Slice : Inflation is ratcheting up the price of pizza in New York City. What does though? CityLab ). •

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to busts. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to busts. Actually, it really isn’t.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator? Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator? trillion in fixed-income assets as a member of BlackRock’s Global Operating Committee and is Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council. Rieder helps to manage $2.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

This, Ciabarra notes, is a notable difference in bottom line for small and medium sized businesses on tight margins – that requires essentially no investment or upgrade – or marketing costs – just willingness to participate in a virtual world that someone else maintains.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

At least, if you are a smart investor who does the right things: Set up a financial plan, manage your own behavior, engage in long-term thinking, and avoid reacting to the endless daily noise that markets + media generate. My obvious bias is that my advisory firm charges clients to create financial plans and manage their assets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Consumer sales grew 14 percent compared with the first half of 2019 and the brand’s global market share increased. We will continue to invest in upgrading our e-commerce capabilities to support both our retail partners and [our] own platform and continue to invest in creating fantastic physical brand experiences for shoppers and fans.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 15, 2023

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share. Social Leverage recently launched its 4th fund.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said. Those are the kind of numbers that explain why Zest received a $15 million investment last week from software developer Insight Partners. 15M In New Funding . ML Is ‘Where It’s At’.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

Embattled First Republic Bank is no longer searching for a buyer as investment advisors and company executives seek to repair the company’s balance sheet before any sale might take place, FOX Business has learned. ( It’s how the world’s most valuable company built a better way of listening to Mozart and Beethoven.

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. This transparency also helps build consensus-based scenario planning, where decisions can be explored and talked about before they’re enacted.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. This role allowed me to drive substantial business results and foster growth across 27 diverse markets, each having a unique set of challenges.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

The round was led by Updata Partners, with participation from existing investors including MATH Venture Partners, which led Built In’s previous two funding rounds. It also plans to boost investments in its core product and increase opportunities for professional development.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market? Can a New One Succeed?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Walmart India revealed that it is investing about $500 million to open 47 new stores by 2022. “A typical store needs anywhere between $9 [million] to $10 million in terms of investment. .” “A typical store needs anywhere between $9 [million] to $10 million in terms of investment. So you can do the math.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We’re targeting Anglophone West Africa … for a market of effectively 300 million people,” Shagaya told TechCrunch. The curriculum will include practice tests and tailored content focused on math, physics, chemistry and biology. The company is headquartered in Lagos with a production studio in Jos.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

s proposals on how to govern London’s access to the European market after Brexit, saying that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s latest plan would take away the EU’s “decision-making autonomy.” Everybody can do the maths. Last month it was reported that the U.K. In July, Brussels rejected the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

While rivals Papa John’s and Pizza Hut have said deliveries through Grubhub and DoorDash have helped them expand into new markets and boost sales, Domino’s Chief Executive Ritch Allison told The Wall Street Journal that the profit hit and reputational risk of working with those companies isn’t worth the extra revenue.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. Really fascinating guy.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

The firm said via release that the latest funding brings the cumulative investment in the firm to date to just under $13 million. The latest growth initiatives have centered on the Tapp Market mobile app, and in pushing into Indonesia and the Philippines, the app has witnessed what management said amounted to “exponential” growth.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. I, I found this to be really an intriguing conversation with somebody who, whose investment charge is unconstrained. Two reasons.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Just recently, Jiobit closed a $3 million seed funding round with investors including Lior Ron, the cofounder of Otto (now owned by Uber); MATH Venture Partners; and Inflection Equity. Those are the handful of teams I invest in nowadays. To date, Jiobit has raised a total of $4.2 million in two rounds of funding.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing (March 20, 2024) Throughout history, investing has been a lot more “Art” than “Science.” For most of the last century, investing was a lot more art than science. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This does not lead to good results in the markets. He was writing about Wall Street and investing and his insight is correct. This will be a wonderful investment year. There’s nothing but a rosy stock market ahead for us. We know a little bit of math. For investors, it is an important question.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

When Stripe did the back-of-the-envelope math on that misallocation of time, the company found it to be worth nearly $300 billion in potential gross domestic product (GDP) on an annual basis. Business[es], particularly smaller ones when they are growing, need to invest in core innovation,” Johnson said.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

She is the president of the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest, with over 2,400 listed companies for a combined market cap of about $36 trillion. It could be — if they’re a foreign company, they will look at their home markets as well. Is it the investment bank? RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

He explained that the automotive industry is the one place where the concepts of IoT can be made very real to the mass market — where they will be able to see it, understand it and really feel its impact. That presents a very real threat, both to market adoption of the technology and also to the individuals in the car,” McCammon stated.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

NoMoreOffice has a 80-person team scattered around the country; 60 are already remote, and 20 work in one of three offices: a 5-person marketing team in Utah; 10-person customer service team in Arkansas; and 5 sales reps in Florida (see screenshot below). Let’s look closer at the headcount math. Current staff.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It MacDonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

By the end of Friday – $2 trillion was gone from the world markets. In the wake of recent struggles – increasingly loud voices were wondering in perhaps the marketplace lenders weren’t actually well suited to exist outside of a set of fairly rarified market conditions. The market for marketplace lending in the U.K,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In early May, news broke that Lending Club had played fast and loose with its documents and disclosures, including the fact that then-CEO Renaud Laplanche had failed to disclose a personal stake in a firm Lending Club had an investment relationship with. The revelations were shocking. What happened to the good vibrations?

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

While many consumers know Moore’s pain, most do not have a degree from the Harvard Business School like Laura Moore does — nor over a decade of experience investing in the food and grocery businesses. We can solve this problem with math and data. Whoever said math couldn’t be delicious?” Meal Kits’ Imperfect Fit. Moore said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

A quick look at consensus shows that investors are largely in a buying mood at the moment, and the company’s current market sits at over $392 billion. 2 after market close. All toys selected will in some way be related to science, technology, engineering and math. billion, said a Thomson Reuters survey.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It Macdonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. Big Debate Of The Week: Did Amazon’s Estimated Online Market Share Just Drop? market share. market share.

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