Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to busts.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

At least, if you are a smart investor who does the right things: Set up a financial plan, manage your own behavior, engage in long-term thinking, and avoid reacting to the endless daily noise that markets + media generate. The performance numbers reveal this is a terrible trade-off for the average retail investor.

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It 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. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Having grown up in Los Angeles after her family had emigrated from Hong Kong, Wong had always been drawn to math and science, a passion that eventually led her to MIT, where she studied economics and business. Expand Title My number two focus will be on the new business models that we’re going into. This is my first priority.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market? With the 10 year at 4.2%

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide At the heart of the country’s economic and social crisis is a broken housing market, which has amplified social divisions.

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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 .

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Numbers could tell a story, they could explain behaviours and predict the future.

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BlueLight

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In this blog, I’m going to apply that math to a growing startup. Qualitatively, we know that net revenue retention rate is the strongest indicator of product market fit. Remember, when revenue numbers get bigger, net retention makes a huge difference. This is a good one. Let’s get started. Startup: Alex’s Lemonade SaaS Stand ??

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We see it in the capital markets. And I am a lover of math. I was a math nerd in high school. Math is one of my favorite tools. And so this then played out in a number of ways like technical standards around protocols and taxonomies. You see it from employees. JACOB HAROLD: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. And I was intrigued by the markets at the time, in the mid eighties, you had a lot of stuff going on in terms of the merger boom. You graduated from high school.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to CNBC-TV18 , the new stores would take the total number of Walmart locations in India to 70. We are planning to take the total number of stores to 70 by 2022. So you can do the math. Walmart India revealed that it is investing about $500 million to open 47 new stores by 2022.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As reported in July, Visa Installments, a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, debuted in pilot markets across the U.S. Visa CEO Alfred Kelly said on the most recent earnings call that installments represent “a pretty interesting space, and I think we're in the early days in most markets.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This can deliver benefits: China’s increasing dominance of the electric vehicle market, for example,” Rogoyski explains. 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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

markets are closed. The math shakes out thus: Each token is equivalent to one share in a particular company and the holder has the right to receive dividends, even though, as Bloomberg noted, “the companies themselves are not involved.”. Might the emergence of the exchange offer some liquidity to the markets? And stocks ?

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CFO Talks

MARCH 28, 2023

When I was studying towards my qualifications for university, I had to choose subjects which were in line with medicine, which was maths, biology and chemistry, but somewhere along the line I ended up doing accountancy and I then finished college in 1994.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. market volatility. Cheap stocks on the mend is a really interesting way to look at the market because essentially the market is saying, “Yeah, that stock is very, very cheap, but we think it’s probably too cheap.”

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Instead, it will dump a massive number of them out of their paying jobs, at the worst moment in economic history. And, he noted, moving to a mix of part-time and full-time drivers doesn’t meaningfully change the math - they would still be cutting over 900,000 drivers and would only end up with about 280,000 jobs total.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Creativity, craft related skills, marketing skills. Strong photography skills and an understanding of what the market is looking for. Ability to identify profitable sale items, marketing and organizational skills. Expertise in a popular topic, presentation and marketing skills. A few dollars to several $100 per month.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

A Market Poised For Pandemic-Driven Growth. The online education market was already experiencing robust growth prior to the pandemic due to increased internet and smartphone use along with government programs promoting digital education. The global market for online learning services was projected to grow 28.6

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just the math of an advisory firm only goes so far at the end of the day.” I could do the rough math on his firm. just to make the math easy. And when he had to pay above-average advisors average compensation, someone picked them off, because it’s a competitive talent market. If you charge 1.1

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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. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

DoorDash’s main challenge has been building a loyal consumer base that regularly taps into its service, especially as it sought to enter a market that already featured established providers. The Math Behind DoorDash’s Subscription Service. The service, which is available via mobile app for $9.99

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Or maybe you just rely on your bank account balance to do the math for you. Your business had a good initial launch, but after a little while in the market, your revenues are starting to slump. They mean well, but when it comes to explaining what they’re doing, it’s all jargon and numbers. Sure, it worked when you first started.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Instead, it will dump a massive number of them out of their paying jobs, at the worst moment in economic history. And, he noted, moving to a mix of part-time and full-time drivers doesn’t meaningfully change the math - they would still be cutting over 900,000 drivers and would only end up with about 280,000 jobs total.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. But that was just a small part of it.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

But to steal a line from Shakespeare, “the readiness is all” – and a significant number of merchants have yet to meet the challenges of commerce done mostly online. Platforms can help with sales and marketing, and with delivering [digital] coupons at the right time to the right customers, said Benson. Rethinking ROI.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Number one is just the fact that we have multiple fee structures. So, that’s number one. Now, because of XYPN and kind of the different marketing funnels out there, people know what flat fee is and advice-only and all the different iterations of it. So, obviously, those are kind of round numbers that they just input.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The election came and went and, with it, brought some stock market shock. International markets opened Wednesday (Nov. International markets opened Wednesday (Nov. But as markets saw their prices fall, bitcoin’s numbers went up. 9) morning on a down note: Stocks in London dropped 4.3 Way up, way fast.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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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. next-generation investors with smaller balances).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Such boxes represent a small segment of the broader subscription market, but they face the same challenges, including fraud attempts like card-and-wallet tests and account takeovers (ATOs). A Product-First Approach In A Competitive Market. Keeping Fraudsters Out Of The Box.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

One can buy his or her child a smartwatch ( outside of Germany , anyway), a kit that will help them build their own computer, dozens of toys centered on teaching the elemental aspects of computer coding, stuffed animals that need to be hatched out of eggs and dolls with a surprising number of biological functions. Some favorites ….

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

But considering its size and scope, the leaping and bounding numbers is remarkable in its own right. Apparently, that hit a bit of a sore spot, since Alibaba’s Head of Communications and Marketing, Wang Shuai, quickly pointed out that JD.com’s number was based on 11 days, while Alibaba had only counted a single day’s sales.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

That has become an increasingly certain part of the conventional wisdom – as real-world retailers are shutting locations down and laying off staff, and oceans of low-skilled service-sector workers are likely to end up on the market with fewer option available to them for gainful employment. I’m just looking at the numbers.”.

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