PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living. Thirty-eight percent report between $1 million and $5 million in annual sales, and 50 percent report between $100,000 and $1 million. A third (33 percent) aren’t sure they will.

Construction 92

Construction Sales Math Manufacturing 92

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.

Treasury 24

Treasury Math Investments Sales 24

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.

Investments 56

Investments Math Risk Management Benchmarking 56

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Walmart’s Q3 earnings last week was a story of strong digital sales and 16 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. Consumers, executives said, continue to walk into Walmart stores and add more things to their shopping baskets. Source: PYMNTS.com.

Healthcare 66

Healthcare Retail Sales Math 66

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.

Valuation 117

Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 117

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In a retail reality where everything is always on sale, coupons were the clever method by which brick-and-mortar shops drew in customers with deals. Because everything is always on sale and because there are any number of ways to collect digital coupons and discounts, who needs all the extra paper?

Profit and Loss 75

Profit and Loss Math Retail Sales 75

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2024

It is a massive Dunning Kruger : exercise in inexperienced but overly confident “ Finfluencers ” reducing complex issues involving money to a slick but misleading sales pitch. I doubt he’s run the real numbers of being invested in the stock market tax deferred with an additional company match.

Math 128

Math Investments Auditing Securities 128

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.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 103

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 103

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.

Investments 60

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Math 60

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Analysts expect the online retail giant to report a 25 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales to $44.7 Revenue could largely be boosted by the company-reported best-ever holiday sales. PYMNTS will update with all the details and provide analysis once Amazon releases its numbers. billion, said a Thomson Reuters survey.

Math 51

Math Transportation Education Retail 51

Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In this post, we’ll walk you step-by-step through how to think about this, and use our free headcount planning template to run the numbers for a fictional company, NoMoreOffice Inc. Let’s look closer at the headcount math. How do you weigh and plan for the costs of such a change? Let’s start by laying out the base case. Current staff.

Planning 98

Planning Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting Math 98

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities, and set a path for customer acquisition and product improvement. But Macdonald said he is confident the numbers will shift in such a way to benefit the company and its data collection efforts.

Advertising 40

Advertising Math Construction Education 40

PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities and set a path for customer acquisition and product improvement. But Macdonald said he is confident the numbers will shift in such a way to benefit this company and its data collection efforts.

Advertising 40

Advertising Math Construction Education 40

Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In this post, we’ll walk you step-by-step through how to think about this, and use our free headcount planning template to run the numbers for a fictional company, NoMoreOffice Inc. Let’s look closer at the headcount math. How do you weigh and plan for the costs of such a change? Let’s start by laying out the base case. Current staff.

Planning 52

Planning Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting Math 52

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

If they want to look legitimate, said Frechtling, then bad guys must manage their core business by the same four business fundamentals as good guys: marketing, sales, operations and receivables. Scalable costs are investments made so that the business is easy to find for those who want it. Management teams should do so monthly.

Math 46

Math Communication Sales Transportation 46

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

While Amazon is fairly tight-lipped about specific numbers, eMarketer has cut its estimate of Amazon’s current online commerce market share in the U.S. by 22 percent based on CEO Jeff Bezos’ recent disclosure that independent retailers accounted for more than 58 percent of Amazon’s gross margin on retail sales. retail sales.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Retail Leverage Startups 40

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. Ability to identify profitable sale items, marketing and organizational skills.

Investments 130

Investments Communication Marketing Advertising 130

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.

Math 52

Math Leadership Investments Entertainment 52

PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. When Walmart Pay released their numbers, they talked only of percentages. Holiday Weekend Sales For Etsy. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital. Invoices are paid by the business via Amex within two business days.

Valuation 40

Valuation Math Manufacturing Risk Management 40

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.

Education 130

Education Planning Benchmarking Investments 130

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

Math 130

Math Planning Benchmarking Technology 130

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.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

So, a few years ago I was at a conference for executives of very, very, very large financial services enterprises who were talking about these huge ginormous checks that they were writing to make investments into advisor technology. What an incredible technology investment if they can pull this off.” Carl: Well, yeah.

Technology 130

Technology Planning Investments Leverage 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And it was a very sales-oriented culture. And what I realized very quickly is that I really didn’t like the sales aspect, but I was actually good at it. And I think he wanted to train me and wanted to invest in me, and he saw that to be the best way to invest in me. I was at the top of the board. Natalie: Yeah.

Planning 130

Planning Budgeting Investments Communication 130

The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

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). However, it can also be cash from sales of products, courses, or subscriptions. Sales of products or services. Examples of nonprofit revenue sources: Cash donations.

Nonprofit 98

Nonprofit Accounting Profit and Loss Accounts Payable 98

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I went home, got my mother, I sold my mother on making a $40 investment. I made $300 a week on a $40 investment. Number one, a school district is a business. And number two, and I think that they were like, I’m sure there’s a note coming after this with a congressional allocation, and it never came.

Economics 56

Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 56

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Some do — and below we talk about how to increase the odds that you, or the company you are investing in, are one of them.). It’s like being asked to figure out the solution to one of those unsolved math problems that mathematicians work on for years before they go insane. Platforms, though, face special challenges.

Startups 43

Startups Economics Math Securities 43

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast I have an extra special guest, Luis Berruga has a fascinating career as both a tech wizard and investment banker before becoming CEO of Global X ETFs. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

Investments 60

Investments Marketing Numbers Risk Management 60

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.

Planning 130

Planning Math Numbers Investments 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

So, that’s the number one thing that I learned because when I really just lived full time in that box, I wasn’t understanding how much other life was happening around me. And I had some great mentors, and they taught us about insurance, and investments, and prospecting. I felt like I would just be a number.

Planning 130

Planning Profit and Loss Leadership Numbers 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Emily is the Senior Financial Planner for Archer Investment Management, a virtual Independent RIA based in Austin, Texas, that oversees $170 million of assets under management for nearly 170 families. ” I’m guessing someone else was like, “And I’m going to go on and get the next sale.” Emily: Yeah.

Education 130

Education Planning Numbers Securities 130

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. He helps to oversee $2.5 RITHOLTZ: Really?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 56

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 56

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. So, my prior broker dealer, it was Fortune 100 company, they have tremendous obviously philosophies in place on how they get their sales force to produce amazing results. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients.

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

First, overall, the government reported that retail sales were up – and by a lot. Sales of clothes, home furnishings, sporting goods and more were all up. In fact, sales of sporting goods were up more than 7 percent this year over last, and home furnishings up nearly 5 percent. It’s all about the math.

Retail 43

Retail Sales CFO Numbers 43

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s why we tend to also do investment management, or also do something to implement. And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients.

Planning 130

Planning Investments Accounting Math 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, that can move the numbers, as well.

Restructuring 130

Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130