Remove Hurdle Rate Remove Leverage Remove Math
article thumbnail

Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. But I would say generally, there’s less leverage in the system.

article thumbnail

Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

CFO News Room

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And then we have the 0% cap.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Corey Hoffstein on Return Stacking  

Barry Ritholtz

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that. This is implicitly leverage. Leverage is a tool that accentuates both the good and the bad.