PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

More than half of the retail businesses we studied operate shops that sell clothing, accessories, household furnishings and gifts; provide personal services such as hair and nail salons; and operate fitness studios, neighborhood convenience stores, grocers, car dealers and auto parts stores. Doing The Math. In just 21 days. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

After about six months, we expanded our products to other online retailers, like Amazon and Snapdeal, and we worked with these three partners for about a year. The first is the assortment of the product options that are available online, and the second is the number of platforms. VS: Xiaomi started business in India back in 2014.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities, and set a path for customer acquisition and product improvement. But Macdonald said he is confident the numbers will shift in such a way to benefit the company and its data collection efforts.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities and set a path for customer acquisition and product improvement. But Macdonald said he is confident the numbers will shift in such a way to benefit this company and its data collection efforts.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

Some undertake a complex, moneyball-esque statistical analysis of every team, every match-up and every venue in the hopes that they can use math to crack the winning code. Toys R Us vs. The Retail Death Spiral . Winner: The Retail Death Spiral. The numbers do get somewhat worse for older customers a bit further down the line.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. retail sales. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2016

And though you might be tempted to write this off as a theory developed by this writer spending way too much time around sitcom families, please note that Father’s Day offers us a unique opportunity to quantify the difference with a number. In fact, recent data from Mintel indicates that millennial dads could be the future of retail.

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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. How ridiculous is that?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. And so my plan was actually to quit and not do anything and figure out what my next step was.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: DPL Partners launches a new advisor-matching solution to solve for the inbound demand of consumers increasingly seeking out a new crop of no-commission annuity products.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And so these were two stories, maybe three, before I’m 9-years-old of bad economics, bad culture, and a bad business plan. Different risk tolerance and different business plan. Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. They have a dumb business plan. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not exactly the sort of inspiring narrative that one might like to hear from a CFO – especially when framed in the context of five straight quarters of disappointing and precipitous declines and the retail giant’s worst performance in eight years. . First, overall, the government reported that retail sales were up – and by a lot.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. I like the idea of kind of urban planning. I like placemaking.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. And Greg Davis just does an amazing job. I think you will also.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. You said BlackRock absorbed R3.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Was that where you plan to go? By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. RITHOLTZ: The whole concept of whisper numbers, which we still use the phrase, but it doesn’t really exist anymore. The numbers are correct.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. And the division that I was in was below plan. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers. That was real money. Real money.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. Was the plan always to cover finance? RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. I’m assuming it’s primarily institutional and not retail. You’re actually crunching a lot of numbers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2016

From a retail industry perspective, while the wedding of two middle-aged people is as blessed an event as any other, the specifics of such an occasion do not occur at a frequency that would justify a company building its business model around it. The Knot used math to determine its most recent average cost of a wedding in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

But firms, before the merger cancellation was announced, noted that continued spending in that manner was not a sustainable future plan. . The initial numbers show that the banner eCommerce event logged 6,000 orders per minute in the United States and a 20 percent increase in sales year over year. This is déjà vu all over again.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We’re in the business of sitting in between asset owners, financial advisors, institutions, retail and asset managers, right, the BlackRock, State Street, PIMCO’s of the world, and helping them understand each other. I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. It’s still a fairly small number.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He was instrumental in getting a number of very positive policy actions passed over the past decade. I’ve interviewed a number of people from Revolution. But unfortunately, just as the product came to market, the whole Atari game market blew up, and retailers didn’t want any new products.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: So first year at ’01, ‘02, you have Apple and they blew out the store model, the retail model, which no one thought. And I’m like, dad, I found I need 25 grand to get going and my dad said send me a business plan. LINDZON: No, so obviously, I did the business plan, I’m kidding. RITHOLTZ: Right. LINDZON: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. You know, my, my number one priority was to operating the firm on a day-to-day basis.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“ Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter’s Trump ban “ Don’t buy a new gasoline car unless you’re planning to get rid of it in just a few years, which is kind of dumb, because then you’re eating the depreciation. Amazon in retail… Especially when it’s consumer facing and depends on traffic.

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