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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 So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit. RITHOLTZ: Is that what led to your transition from entrepreneur to venture capital?

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

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Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. When Walmart Pay released their numbers, they talked only of percentages. Holiday Weekend Sales For Etsy. Zenefits’ Valuation Cut. It is also, perhaps, setting the bar lower for valuation to climb again.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

Barry Ritholtz

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. Barry Ritholtz : So let’s break that into two halves, starting with valuation. Explain why P/E isn’t the best way to measure valuation. People did whatever was working based more on gut feelings than data.

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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. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. So how did you perform?

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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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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 was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number.