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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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: What has been the biggest hurdle?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

When you think of retail, you think of shoppers stepping into a storefront, or browsing products online — the B2C of commerce. But new data released from alternative SME finance player C2FO is lifting the veil on the B2B side of retail. What’s going on in the backdrop of retail is an underlying need for increased agility and speed.

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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

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

JULY 14, 2017

The big-box giant has invested a lot of resources into the digital experience this year, hoping to compete with Amazon, and revealed new back-to-school shopping tools Thursday. Back-to-school season is about to put Walmart’s revamped online ordering system to the test.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The math comes out to one per week. This week, he launched a bitcoin gift card integration with certain top retailers through digital wallet iPayYou.io. Even after years of effort and hundreds of millions in VC capital invested, digital currency continues to have one major weakness: The world of bitcoin is desolate.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Additionally, according to Dougherty, a vibrant private sector, fueled by significant capital investment, is effectively commercializing and refining AI applications. Despite this, China continues to invest heavily in government-funded research and development (R&D). Yet, this lead isn’t necessarily secure.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The migration away from brick-and-mortar retail toward eCommerce is pressuring retailers to modify their payments operations, but building the in-house infrastructure to support those systems from the ground up can be prohibitively expensive and drain businesses’ time and resources,” according to the new Payments Orchestration Playbook.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S. Housing (18.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Now, they are investing in algorithm companies, math scientists, analytics and things that we would typically only have associated with leading tech companies,” McCammon pointed out. The biggest shift to me is the internal focus at the automakers,” he added.

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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. For many, the sources of that cash lie largely in their personal assets — personal investments (47.5 Doing The Math. In just 21 days. . percent) and personal loans (23.1

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Analysts expect the online retail giant to report a 25 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales to $44.7 Think of it as a subscription extensions of extension of the online retail giant’s popular STEM Toys & Games store, which launched in 2015. Amazon is expected to report its fourth-quarter 2016 earnings on Feb.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

Jump ahead to spring, and the next big company in the retail space (specifically, the biggest company in eCommerce) to make an AI-related move this year was Amazon. In fact, the very term “structured data” connotes less of an association with science fiction and more with something like … factual math.

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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. There are few people in the world better situated to discuss commercial real estate investing from every perspective. Starting with your undergraduate work. I have no family history.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some. Justin Wee, formerly of Goldman Sachs, will be vice president of retail distribution, and a new platform aimed at retail investors and retail funds will be rolled out next month.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

Forbes , however, has done the math and finds the numbers attractive, predicting that growth could catapult shares to $237 – a 41 percent increase over the last closing price. at market close on Friday). Forbes notes that Facebook has consistently beaten Wall Street estimates and is likely to outperform again. News” News.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The world is full of people who want to look nice but don’t have the kind of enthusiasm (or time) for retail commerce that would keep them hitting the malls. For that world of emerging high-style, low-energy, low-time shoppers, there is StichFix : an online fashion retailer that comes with a built-in personal shopper.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

The idea of going to a supermarket also has some educational value — it’s a “teaching moment,” Scherer says — to, say, weigh ingredients is an experience in math and science, after all. The boxes are also a way for consumers to try foods without investing too much in buying a product they may not like.

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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.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If there was a transparent use for a company that had value to shareholders, they would be willing to effectively invest their money in order for that company to do what it does to grow whatever it’s growing. It’s because those billionaires are invested in markets that their wealth is propelling up so much. That’s just the math.

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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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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. retail sales. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

banks or retail brokerage firms) who want to cross-sell deeper wealth management/advice relationships to their existing retail customers. more breadth of structured notes to compete with indexed annuities, better yield products to compete with fixed annuities, etc.).

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not exactly the sort of inspiring narrative that one might like to hear from a CFO – especially when framed in the context of five straight quarters of disappointing and precipitous declines and the retail giant’s worst performance in eight years. . First, overall, the government reported that retail sales were up – and by a lot.

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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. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. . ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

What is your process like to prepare for — I don’t know if we still use the phrase beauty contest, but that was the old investment banking phrase. Is it the investment bank? MARTIN: I mean, it was incredibly interesting to watch the new retail interest in certain stocks and why they had picked certain stocks.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Companies with an edge of data — including information, for instance, that can show how consumers behave in certain locations, shops and commerce situations — can provide that edge, which often leads to a sale in this fiercely competitive world of digital retail. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked. “If consumer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Companies with an edge of data — including information, for instance, that can show how consumers behave in certain locations, shops and commerce situations — can provide that edge that often leads to a sale in this fiercely competitive world of digital retail. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked. “If consumer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

FanDuel decided to merge with DraftKings last November, because we believed that this deal would have increased investment in growth and product development, thereby benefiting consumers and the greater sports entertainment industry. Since the merger was never finalized, FanDuel and DraftKings will continue to operate as separate firms.

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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. And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2019

When it comes to objects from mythology – well, you can certainly do the math on that one. That’s a lot to invest in a single object, given that the one true king is free to set up the one true government and require everyone else to obey.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

The eCommerce giant reportedly plans to invest $500 million in the food segment as it capitalizes on increasing Internet penetration in the country. Among them: navigate “specials” wisely, shop around, and do the math. “We wanted to be the first in the market to roll this out and to offer this service to our customers,” he said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

So sizzles all the way around – unless, of course, you’re one of the ones asking banks to invest in a real-time payments capability that does exactly the same thing. And there are a whole bunch of players that are making it their business to help retailers make an essential part of their POS. Iris Scanning.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards. Like I was, I was not expecting that.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Platforms’ Critical Success Factor: Crossing the Critical Mass Frontier.

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