CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a result, the ‘traditional’ valuation of an advisory firm wasn’t really 2X revenue; it was 6-8X profits, and when advisory firms can run 25% to 30% profit margins, 7X profits at 28% margins came out to almost exactly 2X revenue. (In When it comes to technology firms, revenue valuation multiples are often much higher.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

They are a publicly traded investment manager, stocks symbol DHIL, that have been public since day one since 2016. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t. And so I felt like all of those experiences just really led me to love investing. Brilliant is CEO of Diamond Hill.

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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. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. Really fascinating guy.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It’s a tempting value proposition: fashion made easy by handing off the curation to those with the time, skill and interest in turning around on-point looks — and all with minimal investment of intellectual energy on the part of the consumer.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The transcript from this weeks, MiB: Christine Phillpotts, Ariel Investments , is below. Christine Philpots of Aerial Investments has specialized in emerging markets and frontier markets. For most of her career, she has been around the world and if you name a hotspot investing place, she’s been there. Christine Philpots.

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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. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

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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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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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Its founder walked away with a giant buyout package even as its valuation crashed. And I am a lover of math. I was a math nerd in high school. Math is one of my favorite tools. That company is now mired in an enormous financial scandal. The company whose filing paper said it was going to change the world.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. Was investing always the career plan? So I was really investment banking. MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

Some of the things Mike said about investing, like what would you tell your friends and family to put your money into? 00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 21, 2025

And I think you will also, if you are at all curious about estate planning or investing or personal finance, this is not the usual discussion and I think it’s very worthwhile for you to hear this and share it with friends and family. And I, I found it to be an absolutely fascinating conversation. And it was very formulaic.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

But in the world of financial advice, there so far has been little regulation on advisor titles ( unless someone tries to call themselves an “investment counselor”, which ironically is still regulated under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ). And while Buffett was naturally gifted in math, he was initially scared of public speaking.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. Zenefits’ Valuation Cut. By having a reset in valuation, it could be argued that the firm is offering payment of sorts for its own past behavior. It is also, perhaps, setting the bar lower for valuation to climb again.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  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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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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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

But I took a bunch of, I got an internship at Fidelity Investments when I was a junior, and it really gave me a taste for business and I wanted to work in business. You know, the marketing of an investment firm is not to be taken lightly. I got the sense that, so Churnin takes 51% for a fairly modest valuation, 10 or $15 million.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Revolution is the outgrowth of his family office that does everything from seed to venture, to growth investing. But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. And being in the Washington DC area proved to be important.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

There are a few people who are more knowledgeable about fixed income credit real estate and distressed investing than, than Brian. What was investing always the career plan? I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. And I was a math nerd as a kid. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Things get worse at one of the companies that I’ve invested in. Let, let’s start with your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. How did it shape how you look at the world of investing? I actually created a statistic that Gerber statistic that helps to understand diversification between our deal codes, between our investment positions. What was the career plan? I don’t have an MBA from Wharton.

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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. You’re chief investment officer.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

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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

APRIL 8, 2025

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. Because you were not just in the investing side, correct. As baby analysts.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, this will be my shortest introduction ever, Clifford Asness and I just go over the entire universe of quant factor and value investing. So given AQR has been around for 25 years, how has your investing philosophy evolved over that period, assuming it’s changed at all?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2025

If you’re at all interested in the growth in private equity and private capital and how this sector of the investment world is changing and where it might go, I think you’ll find this to be a fascinating conversation. How did those experiences at Bridgewater and and Bren Howard affect how you look at the world of investing?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I, if you are at all interested in concepts of things like portable alpha or return stacking, or just want to know how a quant looks at the world of investing and tries to decide where there are opportunities. Quantitative investing was, was that the plan from the beginning? Let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies. So in 1999, I invested in this. Like I was just like my one internet investment.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

There are few people who understand both fixed income and equity investment and quantitative strategies to each better than Jeffrey Sherman. With no further ado, my discussion with Jeffrey Sherman, double line’s Deputy Chief Investment Officer. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to sit in a room with the Jeremy’s, Professor Jeremy Siegel and I keep calling him Professor Jeremy Schwartz, but he’s just Jeremy Schwartz, chief investment officer of the $75 billion ETF and mutual fund company, WisdomTree. The Professor invested and joined as an advisor.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 30, 2024

The Atlantic ) • Why Front-Page News Can Mislead Investors : Extreme pessimism—the kind that often leads the news—can potentially be fertile ground for investment opportunities. Morningstar ) see also Nearly everything Americans believe about the economy is wrong : Perceptions of the U.S. economy are often at odds with reality.

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