Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Throughout my journey, I have continually strived to be a strategic business leader, both in and out of my finance function, leveraging my extensive experience across developed and emerging markets.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. And while Buffett was naturally gifted in math, he was initially scared of public speaking. How advisors can benefit from reviewing their list of clients and letting go those who are no longer good fits for the firm.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

If they want to look legitimate, said Frechtling, then bad guys must manage their core business by the same four business fundamentals as good guys: marketing, sales, operations and receivables. Underwriting, risk, customer support and/or sales teams should meet on a weekly basis, Frechtling recommends.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

by 22 percent based on CEO Jeff Bezos’ recent disclosure that independent retailers accounted for more than 58 percent of Amazon’s gross margin on retail sales. retail sales. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. market share.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So whether you’re interested in learning about how Dan leveraged online third-party platforms to generate client leads, how he aids his firm in standing out to compete with larger firms, or how he grew his firm to $50M of AUM in close to 3 years, then we hope you enjoy this episode of the Financial Advisor Success podcast, with Dan Callahan.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

First, overall, the government reported that retail sales were up – and by a lot. Sales of clothes, home furnishings, sporting goods and more were all up. In fact, sales of sporting goods were up more than 7 percent this year over last, and home furnishings up nearly 5 percent. It’s all about the math.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Walmart Pay comes to market with a few built-in advantages: it leverages the Walmart.com app, which is used by 20M+ people roaming around their stores each month, it works on every sort of smartphone out there, and they control the POS in all of their stores, just like Starbucks does. Holiday Weekend Sales For Etsy. Next time, guys?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There was real formal learning, there was sitting in on sales meetings, or client reviews with other advisors. Leveraging Dinner Seminars And Third-Party Marketing Solutions To Rebuild A Client Base [50:11]. We talked about that, there was no sales pitch. ” Terry: Yeah, it was all of the above. And we were super simple.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

” I’m guessing someone else was like, “And I’m going to go on and get the next sale.” And so it kind of grew into having some sales element and some goals around growing assets for the firm in general. And then I was out at the end of the sale, and it didn’t feel good, and I didn’t like it.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

So, my prior broker dealer, it was Fortune 100 company, they have tremendous obviously philosophies in place on how they get their sales force to produce amazing results. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. Matthew: Yeah. The culture was very product driven. And was that possible?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: Well, I was basically hanging out at the USV offices after the sale of del.icio.us is about broadening access to knowledge, capital and well-being by leveraging existing networks and protocols, and building trusted brands. And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes.

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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. And that makes the sales conversation easier. We don’t need to have a sales conversation. Mindy: Yeah. Michael: And what was the difference?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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. Cean: Yep, yep.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

KRISTEN BITTERLY MICHELL, HEAD OF NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENTS, CITI GLOBAL WEALTH: It’s really interesting because I’m not someone that you would think would be the typical profile to end up in capital markets or — or sales and trading. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. I was econ and kind of geeky.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. For various reasons.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. And then I went into really more of a sales role in the nineties. We were dealing with clients from a sales standpoint.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. And so that then led to the sale of that business in the late 1990s to Credit Suisse. That’s amazing leverage.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. They don’t need to transact.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And then somebody convinced me to go into sales and trading, and I decided to do that. You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. You know, the leverage in the system builds. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? And actually, I was going to go and do something different. Where are we?

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Their sales pitch was very convincing. The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. In concept.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Companies with an edge of data — including information, for instance, that can show how consumers behave in certain locations, shops and commerce situations — can provide that edge, which often leads to a sale in this fiercely competitive world of digital retail. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Companies with an edge of data — including information, for instance, that can show how consumers behave in certain locations, shops and commerce situations — can provide that edge that often leads to a sale in this fiercely competitive world of digital retail. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it can be price-to-sales — RITHOLTZ: Yeah. They grew more in terms of earnings, sales, cash flows. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. It’s basically price divided by any reasonable fundamental.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. We have a, a survey we do at the end of the year of Christmas tree sale. How do you measure GDP two weeks or three weeks after the quarter ends or retail sales eight days after the month ends. So at that point, I had a pretty big career. It just worked out.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s that the, so that’s the core competency and it’s just leveraged into, if it’s a loan, if it’s a security backed by a loan, if it’s the actual estate itself. When that home comes up for sale, a lot of families show up that wanna live in that home. 00:53:43 And investors gotta buy the home.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry. I don’t know I was for sale. The sale of Wallstrip. And I think you will also.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. And so we, we get this contract written and I go off to grad school assuming I would go work at a big bank doing sales and trading in some quant role. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

Now he’s the head of the discretion team at Loomis Sales, which manages well over $335 billion in client assets. I thought this conversation was fascinating, and I think you will also, with no further ado, Loomis sales. 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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Now, there was one really important part of, of that as part of my job training, I was sent to the big sales offices to learn how the product was sold. One of the big sales offices was out in Long Island in Garden City. It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: But in reality, any day you want to put your house up for sale, you might get a different price then — SIEGEL: If you — I mean, you know, if times are bad and then you say, “I got to sell it the next five minutes,” you don’t want to look at that price. They got a lot of leverage. SIEGEL: Every second.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2025

Leverage buyouts requires leverage. And when rates were so low, the leverage went, it was cheap and, and and easily accessible. Now we’re starting to come out of that now, but that math is still nowhere near where it needs to be. The institutional investor does not like that math. What does that even mean?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

You need to read all of the following article: “The flawed math behind Elon Musk’s Twitter deal – An overleveraged billionaire’s bid for an overvalued company may signal the last gasp in an age of magical thinking about markets” – Washington Post. Not everything is equal folks.

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