Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Platformer ) see also Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first : After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm. ( He previously served roles as Chief Information Officer, as well as Chief Investment Officer.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. And you need the emotional discipline to stick with a reasonable investment strategy from manias to panics and everything in between. (

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

PYMNTS sat down with Revel’s CTO Chris Ciabarra to get the inside skinny about the Pokémon Go retail’s effect -which has been undeniably profound by the numbers. If you want to put a number on that, it averages out to about $2,000 to weekly gross sales.”. By The Numbers.

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It 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. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

But just do the math: Would you prefer to give up 67 basis points (RWM’s dollar-weighted average fee is ~0.67%) or would you prefer to give up 30% of your gains PLUS pay an annual 0.79% fee for the TJUL ETF? The performance numbers reveal this is a terrible trade-off for the average retail investor. Chart after the jump ).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The digital numbers for Lego.com doubled to more than 100 million in the first half of 2020. 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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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 .

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam and bs — and it could feel like the only place online that really mattered.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Breaking down the Math. billion is the first number that came out of the research and this represents the total amount of money lost by manual financial work. This number represents how much of an economic uplift could occur “if FP&A departments hit a conservative 0.1% billion is the 2nd half of the study.

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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? With the 10 year at 4.2% 1987 Crash 3.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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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. According to CNBC-TV18 , the new stores would take the total number of Walmart locations in India to 70. “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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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Numbers could tell a story, they could explain behaviours and predict the future.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Invest with Peer-to-Peer Lending. Capital to invest, basic credit knowledge, risk tolerance. Investing in Cryptocurrency. Capital to invest, high risk tolerance, basic understanding of cryptocurrency trends. Capital to invest. Investable capital, basic understanding of real estate investing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. SigOpt now helps optimize fraud detection and investments like beer brewing and even the manufacturing of synthetic rhino horns. PYMNTS: Can you give me some personnel growth numbers?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

And I am a lover of math. I was a math nerd in high school. Math is one of my favorite tools. And so this then played out in a number of ways like technical standards around protocols and taxonomies. CURT NICKISCH: Mathematical modeling is one of the tools that you spend a chapter on in your book. JACOB HAROLD: Yeah.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hopefully, we’ll fall far short of that number. . But if you have too much, they may think you’re not investing enough into your programs…. Doing some simple math (25% x 12 months = 3 months), we can safely say that you should start with a goal of at least 3 months of expenses as your operating reserve.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees.

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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

JUNE 27, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Peter Borish, Tudor Investments & Robin Hood , is below. Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. Great person.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Instead, by conveying a clear and simple message to clients about how the advisor’s value can provide for a very specific type of client and their unique needs, advisors can enhance their business growth by attracting the right type of client while investing less time and fewer resources actively seeking out new prospects. Carl: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

And I was kind of intrigued and so I said, can we discuss it, and he laid it out on a conference table and I said, what’s this number? And then I said, what’s this number down here, and he said, this is last year’s earnings. And that number was $160 million. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cathy Marcus is co CEO and global COO of p GM Real Estate, a $208 billion investor in real estate, part of the giant real estate investment firm, PIM. She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. But in those days, there were very tax driven investment.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just the math of an advisory firm only goes so far at the end of the day.” I could do the rough math on his firm. just to make the math easy. And literally in the same day, I had somebody super smart who invests in big RIA firms tell me that fee compression is going to eat everything. If you charge 1.1

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The whole world is going electric, especially in China and Europe, the way things are going the USA will no longer be number one in so many categories. He sees his number of Twitter followers, he thinks everybody’s a fan, but that is not the case. What is your 35mm camera worth today? As for all the b.s.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The investment was pitched as a nearly risk-free opportunity to earn annual returns of 50 percent by lending money to slip-and-fall victims awaiting checks after the settlement of their lawsuits.” emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

On a number of concessions McCarthy has made or is considering making to his conservative critics, he risks touching off a revolt from other ideological camps — especially moderate and Biden-district Republicans. If this fails, it can only be because you did not increase the number of infections enough! — The deck: “Allegedly.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital & Invest America , is below. They invest primarily in private and public companies. 00:08:24 [Speaker Changed] No, in fact, that, in fact, I think they were still investing money off their balance sheet called FC Capital. Fiaco Cutler Capital.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Some states also include data like phone number or race. But broadly speaking, this data is mostly available if one is willing to pass through the right number of steps – though by most accounts, it is not really useful on its own. How the data can be used also varies widely across state lines. That is why data brokers exist.

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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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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Dan is a Partner and the Chief Investment Officer at Capasso Planning Partners, a rapidly growing independent RIA based in Charleston, South Carolina that oversees about $250 million of assets under management for 300 client households across the country that are all served virtually. So, that’s number one. Executive Summary.

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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 27, 2023

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. RITHOLTZ: You describe what we now call junk bonds, we used to call high yield, what we now call distressed investing, we used to call vulture investing. But it was very tiny. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The math shakes out thus: Each token is equivalent to one share in a particular company and the holder has the right to receive dividends, even though, as Bloomberg noted, “the companies themselves are not involved.”. This time around, there are a number of regulatory eyes watching – and watching in unison.

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