PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The former fraudster shared his story with PYMNTS and passed along the insights it’s given him in his new life as a good guy. If someone had intervened in his childhood, might Johnson have avoided a life of crime? I didn’t meet the first decent person in my life until I was 16,” Johnson said. The Fraudster Starter Kit.

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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.

Valuation 113

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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.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 86

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Disclose mandatory information —such as any account changes, errors, asset retirements, and insurance contract changes—about the company’s fiscal position at present and in the future. Include critical accounting policies in the notes with the relevant items. Go beyond the required level of detail in financial statements.

Financial Reporting 40

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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.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 61

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

So it wasn’t like something he had throughout his entire life. And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. It was a later Speedmaster. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Retail 65

Retail Advertising Numbers Economics 65

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

He is, he’s been here about half his life. Health, happiness, development, poverty, wellbeing, inequality, and the best ways to collect and interpret evidence for public policy that is quite an eclectic broad set of interests. EPI is also the Economic Policy Institute. So that insurance industry is a big chunk of change.

Healthcare 57

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