Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

What’s more, Amazon said Fire Kids Edition tablets are the number one best-selling kids tablet in the US. In a press release the Seattle, Amazon said the new offerings bring Alexa-specific features and content to Amazon’s FreeTime and FreeTime Unlimited services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The fifth annual Breakthrough Prize awards were doled out yesterday to researchers in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences and math. Each received $400,000 in scholarships and other educational prizes. All told, 12 researchers won a combined $24 million in cash from tech billionaire sponsors.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2017

And if that loan came care of the Federal Department of Education, it will never go away. He also strongly advised that people take out as many credit cards as they could and marry someone with good credit before officially telling the Federal Department of Education (DoE) to get lost. The Inclining Numbers. Millennial Troubles.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I think what caught my attention is that it’s someone with very good maths skills and I think that’s when it started off and it planted a seed in my heart to say this is exactly what I want to do. If you’re going to be a number-cruncher in your office with closed doors, you are not getting anywhere, you need to be out there.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As a starting point, it’s important to understand that as the financial services industry has evolved into the digital age, it has become increasingly common for financial advisors to rely on web-based business development strategies where the typical number of ‘prospects’ who visit the advisor’s website are often astronomically large.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. This made me decide to pursue my education in accounting. Thinking beyond numbers and building trust Numbers are not everything to the business and management team. Can you briefly describe your finance career journey and one or two highlights along the journey?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

PYMNTS will update with all the details and provide analysis once Amazon releases its numbers. Called STEM Club , the new service delivers hand-picked, age-appropriate educational toys for kids for $19.99 All toys selected will in some way be related to science, technology, engineering and math.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. I know our education plan is on track for retirement.”

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

You don’t give them education, so they don’t know any, they can’t only have a skillset. Number one, a school district is a business. And the Department of Education does not set curriculum. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

When you actually do the math, traditional braces or Invisalign can easily cost $24,000 or more for four kids! That’s not quite as much as a college education, but it’s still an expense that needs to be planned far in advance. . There are also a number of financing options available that can make Invisalign more affordable. .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2016

Many estimate that today, that number is now somewhere north of $3 billion. . And anyone who ever told you that no one gets rich working in education, well, they weren’t exactly right. . Daniel Riseman has degrees in English, mathematics and a masters in education. In 2009 , parents around the world spent an estimated $2.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

To put into context how important cross-border has become in commerce opportunities, there’s one key number that stuck out from the findings of the Index — and that’s 57 percent. ” Education in cross-border optimization , he emphasized, is key. Educate yourself and understand the markets you are going after.”

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. Key brands, number one, Coca-Cola Bottling is the company that really helped to jumpstart the city.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But no sooner did I start helping people in this layoff situation, I realized, number one, you gotta have empathy. Is it at that level, the company didn’t just say, “Hey, we’re doing occasional educational lunch-and-learns for our employees. They’re reaching out to you to come in and do education.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. Number one, everybody has credit cards, everybody misunderstands how to use them, and there are actually some secret perks that people have no idea about. In fact, here’s the phone number you call, and you will get your $37 fee waived.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Everyone starts doing the math of what their typical clients pay multiply by 300 clients was like, “This is mind-blowing profitability, effectiveness of the firm. ” Or are you a little bit closer to me thinking that is just a ridonkulous number of people for my brain to keep track of? Carl: Well, yeah.

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 21, 2023

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how, while Brenda was still in high school, her mother died suddenly and she was left with the responsibility of caring for her younger sibling which created a large financial burden that Brenda couldn’t handle despite working 2 jobs and eventually led to her becoming homeless and beginning a cycle of alcohol (..)

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And at the time, Ameriprise had rules around you had to be within a certain number of miles from your primary office, and if you weren’t, you couldn’t be associated with that office anymore. And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend. Natalie: Yeah. Michael: Interesting.

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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. It’s why we tend to also do investment management, or also do something to implement. Mindy: Yeah, yeah. It’s pretty straightforward. Mindy: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The digital numbers for Lego.com doubled to more than 100 million in the first half of 2020. Besides its consumer success, Lego has also been a leader in the education space. Last week Lego Education introduced new resources and lesson plans for the home as well as the classroom. Christiansen. “We

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. DAVIS: So when we think about how those teams are evaluated, it’s a three-year number. So how did you perform?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Behavioral finance has a number of fathers, including Dick Thor and, and Danny Kahneman. Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And number theory was just too mind blowing, you know, for me. The math doesn’t math. That was too abstract.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

You, you were valedictorian Harvard, you never mentioned your Ivy League education. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. I love statistics.

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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 was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. It, it’s education that you get paid for, which is awesome, huh. You get the most education, you get the most experience, you develop the most resilience you can. I, I’ve been through all those since you brought up education.

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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, that’s number one. Because the claims numbers were better. So that’s the math. Mine has always been based on rate of change analysis.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Scouts using the mPOS sold almost 30 more boxes than they did last year, Harris said, marking a 4 percent increase over 2018’s numbers. Children who participate in Girl Scouts learn life and leadership skills, and receive an education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and business. Future Entrepreneurs.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. SEIDES: That allows you to make charitable bets based on long-term educational beliefs. What was interesting was I had said to him, “Well, let’s make this really educational. Less, 20, 30%? And — RITHOLTZ: What?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

Not only has she been named to a number of hundred most influential women in finance, I don’t know many people who have seen as much of this industry on the front lines as she has for as long as she has, and is now in a position to very much drive change within the industry as CEO. Natalie Wolfson is CEO of Orion.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities, and set a path for customer acquisition and product improvement. But Macdonald said he is confident the numbers will shift in such a way to benefit the company and its data collection efforts.

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