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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

Barry Ritholtz

Economic Innumeracy : Some individuals experience math anxiety, but it only takes a bit of insight to navigate the many ways numbers can mislead us. We evolved in an arithmetic world, so we are unprepared for the exponential math of finance. Create a financial plan (then stick to it). Bad Numbers : 4. It boils down to context.

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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

Barry Ritholtz

It doesnt matter if it is Nvidia, Bitcoin, founders stock, or an employee stock option purchase plan (ESOP), sometimes the sheer size of a windfall is paralyzing. My advice was not based on fear of a bubble or the (over)valuation of Yahoo; rather, I suggested employing a regret minimization framework.2

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Q&A: Your Money Map

Barry Ritholtz

Compounding, Denominator Blindness, Survivorship Bias all affect our abilities to make good decisions about the future when even basic math is involved. Tune Out the Noise told investors to not get to distracted from their plan; I never want to be sanguine or blase about the volatility. What are some examples of bad numbers?

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (December 2022)

CFO News Room

Read the analysis about these announcements in this month’s column, and a discussion of more trends in advisor technology, including: eMoney Advisor launches a new Explore feature that helps clients move past just planning for their goals and instead have the opportunity to see what other goals might even be possible in the first place.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

Barry Ritholtz

It sounds like the career plan was always finance. Was that the plan? Heather Brilliant : It was not the plan. But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration. How far out do you plan it?

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

What, what was the career plan? I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. It’s great to be here. 00:02:41 [Barry Ritholtz] So, so you have a really interesting and unusual background.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

Barry Ritholtz

It was about $170 million valuation. So here’s the math, Barry. If you have seven $50 incremental year, then every 10 year old in America, when they enter into the fifth or sixth grade and the teacher says, Hey, today we’re gonna talk about math or compounding or stocks or capitalism, they’ll say, open up.