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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

Barry Ritholtz

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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Finding Rollover Opportunities In Transitions After Layoffs

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But no sooner did I start helping people in this layoff situation, I realized, number one, you gotta have empathy. I’ve been to well over 600, almost 700…I’m loose with my numbers here, but over 700 companies in the last 20 years, if not more. You’ve gotta have a deep empathy. Michael: Yeah. John: Yeah.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

Barry Ritholtz

That’s one part financial freedom, one part prioritization of your life, and one part less stress and worries about financial matters. And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. In fact, here’s the phone number you call, and you will get your $37 fee waived. Number two is travel.

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Resetting Work/Life Balance By Getting Paid For Expertise

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Because I know a number of firms that do have some amount of 401(k) business do have a wealth offering and have struggled to figure out how to systematically or efficiently get clients to switch over, or move over, or cross over when it’s appropriate for them to do so. .” Michael: Interesting.

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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.” And so, that can move the numbers, as well.

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How To Accelerate Client Growth As An Advice-Only Firm

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And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. Mindy: I mean, a lot of times they’ll say stuff like, “Time to prioritize this.” What kind of responses do you get? Mindy: Yeah, yeah.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

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. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? That’s unbelievable.

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