CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo In this edition of our CFO Spotlight series, we are featuring Rofhiwa Irene Singo, an accomplished finance leader whose journey is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and impactful leadership. Share your favorite leadership lesson. How do you balance your personal and professional life?

CFO

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And I understood from that that well-meaning people can still muck things up because they don’t have an appropriate guide frame or appropriate leadership, or they’re not, so like little things can take projects astray. And risk is not about not losing money.

Profit and Loss

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The interview is part of FutureCFO's Fem ale Leadership in Finance Series. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. This role broadened my understanding of the intricacies of financial oversight and enterprise risk management.

Finance

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

Math

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Absolutely.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. One is our leadership in thematic investing. You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

BORISH: So one of the geniuses of Paul in really understanding futures markets in general is that most of the innovative risk management approaches came out of the futures markets because of the using margin. So now what do you do with risk management? What were you trading and what was he looking at?

Math