CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

TIPS have suddenly moved to center stage for investors, as the surge in inflation has drawn new interest in Treasury inflation-protected securities. But how much do investors really know about these securities, other than their alluring name? Yes, TIPS may have a role to play in many portfolios, investment pros say.

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Treasury Securities Valuation Math 130

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 5, 2022

As ultimately, very few human beings can effectively do compound math in their head, to figure out the cumulative impact of years or decades of a change in savings, investing, or other financial behaviors, on their long-term wealth. It’s the physical security protections that ensure the money cannot be stolen by thieves.

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Planning Technology Valuation Communication 130

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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Banking Economics Leverage Currencies 100

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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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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Benchmarking Investments Marketing Treasury 52

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, we pivoted to more of a service team.

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Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130