CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As while advisors certainly can leverage technology to create faster and more efficient back-office processes that help scale a growing practice, the key point is that new technology tools can also help advisors engage in better conversations through innovative presentation tools (e.g., Leverage the back office to the sky. Carl: Yeah.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” ” I’ve seen a lot of industry discussion that’s essentially, the math of it can be better on the RIA side because you just don’t have to pay for the things that you don’t need in your platform.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The most prominent of which is Facet Wealth, which has stated a goal of getting advisors up to 250 clients/advisor by leveraging their own proprietary technology to make their advisors maximally productive. Which attracted a similar tech-enabled RIA competitor “Compound” earlier this year.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

So, whether you’re interested in learning about how John has grown and scaled his firm through a niche focus of layoff transitions, how John has leveraged virtual workshops to engage with even more companies across the U.S., They’re reaching out to you to come in and do education. Let’s have John come in.”

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 21, 2023

What's unique about Brenda, though, is how she not only came to the financial services industry without any financial background, but did so despite a very financially challenging upbringing, and while navigating challenges of homelessness, bankruptcy, and alcoholism in her 20s, through which she not only persevered and rose through the ranks as a (..)

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

SHAW: — and really was an inspiration for the way I think about learning and understanding the value of education. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about education. RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? for 50 years — RITHOLTZ: 50. SHAW: Well, it’s pure geometry.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. You know, the leverage in the system builds. All of them, once you talk about health care, education, leisure, hospitality, hotel, et cetera. And if it does, it will create exogenous shock.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. ” Leveraging Yelp, Online Searches, And Referrals To Increase Firm Growth [1:02:53]. I pay for their continuing education. Mindy: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Now, I, I feel like we educated the street in many ways going back 15, 20 years ago about this rate of change analysis going back to the early two thousands. So that’s the math. There is still excess leverage in the system that I’m not sure how that’s gonna be resolved necessarily.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Macdonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria. 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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

MacDonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria. 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.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

We wanna be sure that our communications tools leverage large language models so they can be highly personalized. In addition to cybersecurity, there’s also the third party rule, which is, which is RIAs and investment advisors that leverage third party providers to provide services to their clients. Which we are at Orion.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

And these were real bankruptcies, led by a supply-demand imbalance, too much leverage and not enough demand for the products. RITHOLTZ: It was really fascinating. MIELLE: Yes. So all those don’t even exist anymore. And the demand was sort of tardy to come. So those companies restructured or liquidated. I worked really hard.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : So, so let’s talk a little bit about your career in real estate, but before we get to that, I just gotta ask on your LinkedIn under education, it says, didn’t graduate, none working for a living. 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

JULY 15, 2024

And the good thing about Northeastern University, they have tremendously great cooperative education program that saved my life because it made me understand I did not want to be a double E or an engineering prof in my profession. I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

So, Tesla has burgeoned on the good will, the purchases of the educated classes, wanting to make a statement, raving about their automobiles, spreading the word. Should it fall below $750, Musk could run afoul of Tesla’s own leverage ratio. As for the science? There are no facts in America anymore, didn’t you hear?

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