Barry Ritholtz

MAY 15, 2023

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share. TKer ) • The Debt Ceiling Dispute Raises the Risks for ‘Risk-Free’ U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living. Doing The Math. For most SMBs , 2019 was a banner year, and 2020 was expected to be nothing less than spectacular. In just 21 days. . It may not be so clear-cut.

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The CFO College

JUNE 3, 2021

Don’t worry, no construction skills are necessary! When you bill two clients at $4,200 per month, just do the math. The PDR is necessary to keep all files and documents organized and available at a moment’s notice when your clients, investors, owners, board members, or auditors need to access them quickly.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It Macdonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It MacDonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

How to constructively combat imposter syndrome, and actually use its energy to fuel your drive. HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius sat down with Roslansky in this episode of our video series “ The New World of Work ” to talk about: How women can survive and thrive in stereotypically “bro” industries like the technology sector.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. If you wanna do a development, forget about construction loans, which are almost impossible to get right now. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it. I have no family history.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. They create the benchmark.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. He had a construction company and he’d bid a job at $1,000, it cost $1,200, but he’d outbid the other guy who was bidding the job at $1,400. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

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. We forget that there weren’t personal computers on everybody’s desk back then. That’s really bad.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. And then I was looking for something more applied. The second is excess returns.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

But I was really buying, and what I wanted to do was the construction. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. I was a media buyer, so I could buy what someone else proposed to me. I could negotiate it, I could manipulate it slightly so that it worked for our objectives.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet. How would you have done?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, part of why I read inventory numbers at retailers, you know, you talked about semis earlier, I think you have to think about the whole construct of what’s driving topline revenue for companies. Last year, you said you’re starting to become more constructive on emerging markets and more balanced, obviously, on the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

00:10:47 [Speaker Changed] So in the additive services that Orion offers now are financial planning, compliance, CRM services, risk and analysis portfolio construction and advisor portal and investor portal. You know, don’t be overwhelmed by the, the vocabulary or the math or things that frighten people away from the industry.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So we could construct trades that had very, very low premiums to sell this volatility to, to basically join the consumer on their side of the trade, which is in essence buying insurance on, on the bonds that were exposed to these great risk. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job : Developers are embracing artificial intelligence tools like drones, cameras, apps and robots, which can reduce the timelines and waste that have made construction increasingly costly. (

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

You need to be more constructive because Dow 57% is a fantastic reset.” So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

But anyway, it was a beautifully constructed stress ball called the Grip. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: But that math, if you really put it in a calculator … RITHOLTZ: Becomes a problem. Anyways, he had the stress balls and you know, I loved the product.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The iShares China Large-Cap ETF, which holds China Construction Bank and Tencent Holdings, dropped 1 percent as well. Our ‘back of the envelope’ math suggests the impact [of the new tariffs] will be [a] roughly $0.50-$0.75 [annualized per share] hit to earnings with roughly $0.30-$0.50 However, no final decisions have been made.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

But with mutating RNA viruses, ‘herd immunity’ is an extinct construct. However, they also show performance of DIY units can vary considerably depending upon their design, construction, and positioning, and users should be mindful of these limitations.” • This is a NIOSH study, therefore not the CDC study above. (So

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

And it was a bonfire of thinking, in a constructive, bonfires destroy, Tribe didn’t destroy anything. It’s a power law, this is very slightly technical for yours truly, the English major, not technical for you, the math guy. And when he was my teacher, he was charismatic, he was clear, he was bursting with ideas.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Leaked documents: British spies constructing secret terror army in Ukraine Grayzone (Kevin W). Can Elon Musk Make the Math Work on Owning Twitter? Pentagon, U.S. arms makers to talk Russia, labor and supply chain Reuters (resilc). Low Prices And Tanker Traffic Leave $2 Billion Of LNG Floating Off Europe OilPrice. It’s a house of cards.”

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I do the math. We do see a real construction boom. I’m spending hours and hours just waiting at some port for my container to be available. I’m stuck at outside some warehouse that’s also short of employees waiting for them to unload my freight so I can pick up the next load.

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