Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 27, 2025

And then MassMutual combined Barings investing with a number of other shops, including Babson, a very well regarded investing firm. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio News. What a fascinating guest. Mike Freno is chairman and CEO of Barings. Great to see you.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

The numbers were buoyed mainly by the banks three main areas of operations: North America, Latin America, and Europe, where the bank controlled a commanding 8.3%, 9%, and 4.4% BofA also scored big on M&A despite the somewhat subdued activity, serving as the lead financial adviser for the buy side in the $1.9 billion).

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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. 00:01:58 [Speaker Changed] I’m just old. Lisa Shalett : Not at all.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 4, 2025

Melissa Smith : So I definitely thought that I was gonna work in the public sector when, when I’m recruiting at JP Morgan I always, you know, get the question sort of how did, how did you get into investment banking? Previously she was co-head of the bank’s Innovation Economy Group. It’s a pleasure to be here.

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CFO Dive

JULY 10, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Tech Weekly Every Tuesday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Samuel Corum via Getty Images The recently-enacted “ One Big Beautiful Bill Act ” could help lift sagging merger-and-acquisition volume numbers by creating a more attractive environment for dealmaking on the U.S.

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Bramasol

JULY 7, 2025

The media industry is at a crossroads, with streaming services, evolving licensing models, and increasing M&A activity transforming the way content is created, distributed, and consumed. Streaming has driven the need for m ore dynamic content licensing, as platforms must quickly acquire a wide range of content to keep customers engaged.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jessica is the Founder and Principal for Turkey Hill Management, a mergers & acquisitions consulting firm that assists financial advisors with the sale, acquisition, integration, or merger of their firms. My guest on today's podcast is Jessica Polito.

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Navigating Mergers and Acquisitions: A Strategic Guide for CFOs in South Africa Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are powerful tools for growth, diversification, and innovation in today’s competitive business landscape. However, they come with inherent risks and complexities.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The big deal is now complete: Fiserv announced this morning (July 29) that it has completed its acquisition of First Data Corporation. where Fiserv has a smaller presence, the company is looking at how to move a number of Fiserv solutions “through the First Data distribution system or the First Data network outside the U.S.”.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

M&A deal momentum is set to continue in 2022 after registering unparalleled growth in deal values and volumes in 2021, said PwC recently when releasing its Global M&A Industry Trends: 2022 Outlook. The number of announced deals exceeded 62,000 globally in 2021, up an unprecedented 24% from 2020. Report highlights.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2022

When it comes to global M&A trends in 2023, WTW said that deals will be smaller while pace will be slower. As we move into 2023, economic uncertainty will continue to define and challenge M&A activity, but there will also be opportunities, said Massimo Borghello, Head of Human Capital M&A Consulting, Asia Pacific at WTW. . “In

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Future CFO

JANUARY 17, 2023

Global M&A has a positive start in 2023 as global dealmakers achieved a second consecutive quarter of market outperformance in the last three months of 2022, said WTW recently. Global M&A highlights. In Asia Pacific, deal volumes have been more stable with a marginal increase in M&A activity during the last 12 months.

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Global Finance

JULY 29, 2024

Will Fed rate cuts and geopolitics fuel more M&A deals by GCC banks? Despite the chances of an erosion in earnings, however, merger and acquisition activity among GCC banks has gone quiet since it reached a pre-pandemic peak in 2019 when 11 deals worth $118 billion were consummated, according to data from PitchBook.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To get there, they’re leveraging their respective strengths and forging partnerships to create new and innovative payment solutions that can move money across borders at any minute of the day with unprecedented speed. Big banks, like Citi, are jockeying to be their clients’ single “port of call” when it comes to transacting.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

John is the founder and CEO of John Stokes Financial, a hybrid advisory firm based in Irvine, California that oversees more than $400 million in assets under management*, for 1,800 client households.

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Future CFO

JULY 9, 2023

The first quarter of 2023 saw global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity continue to shrink as rising interest rates, high inflation and recession fears dampened deal-making. Despite dwindling deal numbers, lucrative M&A opportunities continue to be available for those with the appetite and eye for lower valuations.

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Future CFO

JULY 22, 2021

Global deal values was in excess of US$1 trillion per quarter over the past 12 months as the first six months of 2021 saw record levels of dealmaking both in terms of deal volumes and values, said PwC recently when releasing its Global M&A Industry Trends: 2021 mid-year outlook. The pursuit of strategic advantage is powering deals.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

’cause then I figure I could always be employed either managing the numbers or doing law and get those two degrees. They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. They run over $27 billion in, in assets. Then I think you’re gonna find this to be a fascinating conversation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

And this week, the theme wasn’t just working hard – it was working together, as the major news mostly came from the world of mergers and acquisitions. The assets gained in the acquisition help banks control or suspend tokenized bank account numbers, limit token use to specific channels and even set spending limits.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The report titled, Controller’s Guidebook: Burnout in Accounting - Understanding the Problem , Leveraging Solutions, revealed that m% of accountants had at least one month in the past year where the Close disrupted their personal life. This state of work has set an expectation of speed with executives and the business.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

While RIA M&A activity has been red hot during the past couple of years, a survey suggests that advisors are expecting lower valuations in 2023. Why advisors crafting their marketing message might first want to consider whether their target client needs a ‘life raft’ or a ‘sailboat’. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

You start at Drexel in the M&A group, what was that, like? And I got the opportunity to work with some really interesting folks who continue today to be involved in private equity and private credit, and then see them all the time and I’m very proud of that time. This is really a fascinating story. It was a great time.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

We also have a number of articles on taxes and end-of-year planning: The importance for advisors of understanding current RMD rules to ensure their clients take the proper distributions (and avoid a 50% penalty in the process!). Pundits continue to expect “SECURE 2.0” Adam is an Associate Financial Planning Nerd at Kitces.com.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: I’m a big fan of both of them and a big fan of the JD/MBA program and involved with both schools still today. I’m a big fan of multidisciplinary approaches. He eventually goes to a Forstmann Little where he’s one of the first five founding partners. They grew a business where they issued junk debt.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But she answers a question, I’m just sitting there dumbfounded by how she’s just like, oh my God, that’s just an absolutely comprehensive explanation about something I had no idea about, and now I feel like I really know. You started your career doing M&A at Goldman Sachs. What was that like?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Was this a distressed acquisition or — RIEDER: It was. And they took two of us, and I’m not sure how I made it through the strainer. He helps to oversee $2.5 trillion in various investments. I can keep babbling about how fascinating I found this discussion. You graduate Emory University with a degree in finance.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Why RIA M&A activity has slowed down since October and how deal structures could be affected in the current economic environment. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: How advisors can incorporate Social Security benefits into a client’s retirement asset allocation. Enjoy the ‘light’ reading!

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

He’s really well known on the street and puts out a number of fascinating books, arguably a sort of parallel career to Michael Lewis. He’s really well known on the street and puts out a number of fascinating books, arguably a sort of parallel career to Michael Lewis. He is one of the co-founders of Puck.

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The Big Picture

JULY 8, 2025

She’s had, you know, just about every job on the buy side and sell side, including portfolio manager, consultant to LBOs and m and as she’s just done so much stuff, it’s so interesting that she really brings just this unique set of experiences to Citi. I, I’m so glad I finally got, got you here.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 24, 2024

In addition to covering Amazon, she is an award-winning reporter who has deep roots in both m and a and retail. I had no idea, as I’m reading the book, I’m just genuinely shocked. We’ve been ships in the night and I’m glad we finally did this. Her new book is really quite fascinating.

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