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TikTokInvestors

Barry Ritholtz

It is a massive Dunning Kruger : exercise in inexperienced but overly confident “ Finfluencers ” reducing complex issues involving money to a slick but misleading sales pitch. I doubt he’s run the real numbers of being invested in the stock market tax deferred with an additional company match.

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50% Risk-free Annual Returns

Barry Ritholtz

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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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

CFO News Room

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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Pokémon’s New Retail Customer Acquisition Math

PYMNTS

“What we’re seeing online here is that 63 percent of our customers that have Pokestops increase weekly gross sales by 12 percent. If you want to put a number on that, it averages out to about $2,000 to weekly gross sales.”. Revel’s customers are retail, grocery stores, restaurant and soon, hotels.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

Barry Ritholtz

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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10 Tuesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

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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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

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. What happens if they fail?

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