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James Owen, Global Chief Financial Officer, Profiles Division, Kantar

Generation CFO

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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Stakes Rising In The US-China AI Race

Global Finance

Arcesati notes, “The US has historically excelled at attracting top STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] talent from abroad, while China has struggled to do so. AI’s positive impact will be concentrated, initially, “in a limited number of sectors.”

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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo

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However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. This early encouragement played a key role in shaping my future, as it introduced me to the world of business and numbers. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (December 2022)

CFO News Room

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: DPL Partners launches a new advisor-matching solution to solve for the inbound demand of consumers increasingly seeking out a new crop of no-commission annuity products.

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Leveraging Structured Notes To Differentiate A Solo Practice

CFO News Room

And so, that’s how this actually started was, at first, I knew I wanted to just get a deeper dive into our numbers, into our business, our process, and, so, I engaged in the CFO solutions services. Or how do we work around a concentrated stock position, right? ” That’s what we did.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk. Very few people want to quote unquote, get onto a smartphone.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

Barry Ritholtz

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.