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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

WENGER: Well, I was basically hanging out at the USV offices after the sale of del.icio.us is about broadening access to knowledge, capital and well-being by leveraging existing networks and protocols, and building trusted brands. But eventually, when the valuations get too high, the rounds get too large, we don’t follow on.

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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. Holiday Weekend Sales For Etsy. Next time, guys?

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 17-18) 2022

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How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. In 2021, elevated equity valuations and relatively low bond yields led the researchers to suggest 3.3% And while Buffett was naturally gifted in math, he was initially scared of public speaking.

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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.” Is it at 1.5%? And then we have the 0% cap.

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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.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

And then somebody convinced me to go into sales and trading, and I decided to do that. You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. You know, the leverage in the system builds.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: So it can be price-to-sales — RITHOLTZ: Yeah. They grew more in terms of earnings, sales, cash flows. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. It’s basically price divided by any reasonable fundamental.