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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Walmart Pays Pays Off, Marketplace Lending Falls Off

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Walmart Pay comes to market with a few built-in advantages: it leverages the Walmart.com app, which is used by 20M+ people roaming around their stores each month, it works on every sort of smartphone out there, and they control the POS in all of their stores, just like Starbucks does. Zenefits’ Valuation Cut. Next time, guys?

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. RITHOLTZ: And if only you could do that.

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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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.” That’s basically what it is.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

Barry Ritholtz

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. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there. Why covered calls?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

It’s that the, so that’s the core competency and it’s just leveraged into, if it’s a loan, if it’s a security backed by a loan, if it’s the actual estate itself. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade. So I had real support around Wall Street.