Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

Otherwise, the West Coast, if you were in the financial services business, it was rough life. I find it’s just like, you know what, and it’s funny, this is like a later in life realization. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. JOHNSON: Yeah, exactly.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Apart from celebrities, Apple and Uber were also tagged in the hacking event that occurred Wednesday (July 15). The number of people that are potential targets, that could be easily duped by sophisticated cons, is the greatest I’ve ever seen in my life.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

My father was an investment advisor, and he made his way to be an investment advisor from being a manager with a textile factory to selling insurance to find his way out of that business, went from insurance to financial planning, financial planning to the independent broker-dealer world, independent broker-dealer to hybrid IBD slash RIA.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

He is, he’s been here about half his life. I also liked having a lot more money that was certainly different and I’d worried about money my whole life. Also remember, if you’re in the UK and the government pays for everything, there’s no insurance industry, right? So interesting, so fascinating.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

I came in We built out what was called this ad specialty business, corporate logos putting it on business and long story short the product got onto QVC, and we are in the QVC Hall of Fame There is a QVC Hall of Fame. I mean, I didn’t set out in life to be a hedge fund guy. RITHOLTZ: Right. So I don’t know. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. In 1992, when I joined, they gave me the highfalutin title of Managing Director of Corporate Strategy. So you could see how the futures were trading, and marry that with portfolio insurance. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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