CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: That’s pretty safe.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 103

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

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

He’s a loss leader.” Leveraging Dinner Seminars And Third-Party Marketing Solutions To Rebuild A Client Base [50:11]. I could have worked more hours, I could have been even more efficient and effective in what I was doing. But it worked well enough to take me from, “Hey, you really should fire this guy.

Planning 130

Planning Profit and Loss Leadership Numbers 130

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. It’s late in the summer in 2022, markets sold off 22, 24 percent, recovered about half of those losses ….

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

And these were real bankruptcies, led by a supply-demand imbalance, too much leverage and not enough demand for the products. It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. That’s an amazing lesson in life, right, to take failure and losses as business as usual. MIELLE: Yes. MIELLE: It is money.

Investments 109

Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 109

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. They buy tokens at a discount and resell them for big profits almost immediately.

Currencies 71

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay.

Profit and Loss 64

Profit and Loss Valuation Forecasting Investments 64