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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

  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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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

PYMNTS

He wrote in an email regarding the coming changes: “With the recent tightening of the capital markets, we are refocusing on our core consumer loans business.”. Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some. All in, 171 jobs will be cut.

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Will Members-Only Bed Bath & Beyond Be Able To Compete With The Coupons?

PYMNTS

“But really, we need to be working, and we are working on becoming a lot more intelligent about our marketing and making it much more personalized.”. And those losses are catching up, with share price declining about a quarter this year. But then, customers like that aren’t a major profit driver for Bed Bath & Beyond.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

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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Nonprofit Accounting Basics for Founders, Board Members & Executives

The Charity CFO

You can grasp nonprofit accounting basics in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never taken an accounting course (and even if you hated math in high school). The basic accounting principles for nonprofit organizations are the same as accounting for for-profit companies. . Examples of nonprofit expenses: Rent. Office supplies.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. She really has an incredible background in everything from capital markets to derivatives, to wealth management. You’ve been involved with capital markets for your entire career. I love statistics.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

I went home, got my mother, I sold my mother on making a $40 investment. I made $300 a week on a $40 investment. So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. These are not dumb people.