Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The investment was pitched as a nearly risk-free opportunity to earn annual returns of 50 percent by lending money to slip-and-fall victims awaiting checks after the settlement of their lawsuits.” emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Here’s your investing playbook. Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. The stock market’s winners and losers will be different too. trillion in assets.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

That it was essential to success, not just in the arts, but science, business strategy and investing. KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( Here are some of the most interesting things I found. (

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said. Those are the kind of numbers that explain why Zest received a $15 million investment last week from software developer Insight Partners. 15M In New Funding . ML Is ‘Where It’s At’.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Let’s delve into these to see if they apply to your own investing and trading: Instinct : Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking , discusses the strengths and capabilities of the “ adaptive unconscious.” And, it has the advantage of leaving your actual investments alone.

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

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. This transparency also helps build consensus-based scenario planning, where decisions can be explored and talked about before they’re enacted.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 25, 2023

Regardless, I find DKE to be an incredibly useful tool that helps explain many of the individual errors we see in investing. Gaze, The Conversation, May 23, 2023 Math Professor Debunks the Dunning-Kruger Effect By Eric C. Perhaps its rise in pop culture is to blame).

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. Leaders under economic pressure will likely prioritize short-term measures of growth, so there will be a bias toward marketing tactics with a clearer return on investment, such as search, social, and e-commerce.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

This, Ciabarra notes, is a notable difference in bottom line for small and medium sized businesses on tight margins – that requires essentially no investment or upgrade – or marketing costs – just willingness to participate in a virtual world that someone else maintains.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Meb Faber, founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investments, speaks about a new ETF that may be the solution to the challenge of concentrated equity positions. Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Meb Faber is co-Founder and CIO at Cambria Investment Management, as well as research firm Idea Farm.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. After finishing primary school, I initially chose needlework in my first year of high school. How do you balance your personal and professional life?

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2024

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing (March 20, 2024) Throughout history, investing has been a lot more “Art” than “Science.” For most of the last century, investing was a lot more art than science. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 11, 2023

Bloomberg ) • From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns : Your first experience at work is not often forgotten. Previously, he worked under David Swensen at the Yale Investments Office, where he invested directly with three of Yale’s managers.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2024

At The Money: Behavior Beats Intelligence (July 24, 2024) We focus most of our investing efforts on information and knowledge. Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. In investing, it’s usually the opposite. None of it matters.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 31, 2024

This week, we speak with Jeffrey Sherman , deputy chief investment officer at DoubleLine Capital. We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Yes, TIPS may have a role to play in many portfolios, investment pros say. Introduced in 1997, TIPS stayed largely under the radar in the investment universe for years as inflation remained subdued. What investment strategies are you using in the face of rising prices? in January to 7% in December. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. And you need the emotional discipline to stick with a reasonable investment strategy from manias to panics and everything in between. ( To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2023

When planning for retirement, it’s effectively impossible to precisely forecast the performance and timing of future investment returns, which in turn makes it challenging to accurately predict a plan’s success or failure.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 17, 2023

While declining interest rates have been responsible for stock growth (at least at the extremes), interest rate changes don’t always determine our investment destiny. Fisher Investments ) but see also Mapping the Death of NYC’s Cheap Slice : Inflation is ratcheting up the price of pizza in New York City. What does though? CityLab ). •

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. SigOpt now helps optimize fraud detection and investments like beer brewing and even the manufacturing of synthetic rhino horns. PYMNTS: What has been the biggest hurdle?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We will continue to invest in upgrading our e-commerce capabilities to support both our retail partners and [our] own platform and continue to invest in creating fantastic physical brand experiences for shoppers and fans.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

The big-box giant has invested a lot of resources into the digital experience this year, hoping to compete with Amazon, and revealed new back-to-school shopping tools Thursday. Back-to-school season is about to put Walmart’s revamped online ordering system to the test.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 12, 2024

Too many of us adopt A self-assured, know-it-all persona because we know the investing public prefers that to learn the truth: nobody knows anything, and the future is inherently unknown and unknowable.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Invest with Peer-to-Peer Lending. Capital to invest, basic credit knowledge, risk tolerance. Investing in Cryptocurrency. Capital to invest, high risk tolerance, basic understanding of cryptocurrency trends. Capital to invest. Investable capital, basic understanding of real estate investing.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Huddle Up ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Rick Rieder , Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income at BlackRock , Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team, and Senior Managing Director. Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Everybody can do the maths. In a recent survey, 80 percent of companies reported that Brexit has had a negative impact on investment decisions, while almost two-fifths (39 percent) said they would launch contingency plans if there was no clarity by next month. It is very open and very transparent.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

It’s about the overall experience,” explained C2FO Managing Director Amanda Mathes in a recent conversation with PYMNTS. “A An impressive 71 percent said they will be investing more in logistics technologies, while nearly two-thirds said they’re planning an increase in analytics investments.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

a Minneapolis-based investment bank and financial services company, told Pension & Investments (P&I) he expects branch closures and job cuts. Brian Kleinhanzl, an analyst at New York investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, told P&I job cuts would likely come in the company’s asset management division.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The curriculum will include practice tests and tailored content focused on math, physics, chemistry and biology. To remedy this, uLesson is offering an app-based home education kit for students that includes a dongle, SD card and a set of headphones. The venture has already created 3,000 animated videos for core subjects.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 23, 2024

link] • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon : Want to really understand how large language models work? link] Be sure to check out our Masters in Business this week with Liz Ann Sonders , Chief Investment Strategist at Schwab. She also sits on the Investment Policy Committee.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Walmart India revealed that it is investing about $500 million to open 47 new stores by 2022. “A typical store needs anywhere between $9 [million] to $10 million in terms of investment. .” “A typical store needs anywhere between $9 [million] to $10 million in terms of investment. So you can do the math.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

But just do the math: Would you prefer to give up 67 basis points (RWM’s dollar-weighted average fee is ~0.67%) or would you prefer to give up 30% of your gains PLUS pay an annual 0.79% fee for the TJUL ETF? My obvious bias is that my advisory firm charges clients to create financial plans and manage their assets.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But if you have too much, they may think you’re not investing enough into your programs…. Doing some simple math (25% x 12 months = 3 months), we can safely say that you should start with a goal of at least 3 months of expenses as your operating reserve. What kind of investments can you make with your reserve funds, if any?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

And I am a lover of math. I was a math nerd in high school. Math is one of my favorite tools. And they just forced themselves as a foundation to do that for their investments, for their grants, for their contracts, and to look at both the positive and negative consequences of their work across these different dimensions.

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