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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (December 2022)

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As a result, the ‘traditional’ valuation of an advisory firm wasn’t really 2X revenue; it was 6-8X profits, and when advisory firms can run 25% to 30% profit margins, 7X profits at 28% margins came out to almost exactly 2X revenue. (In When it comes to technology firms, revenue valuation multiples are often much higher.

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Betting On Style For The Short-On-Time

PYMNTS

The world is full of people who want to look nice but don’t have the kind of enthusiasm (or time) for retail commerce that would keep them hitting the malls. For that world of emerging high-style, low-energy, low-time shoppers, there is StichFix : an online fashion retailer that comes with a built-in personal shopper.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

Barry Ritholtz

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. Barry Ritholtz : So let’s break that into two halves, starting with valuation. Explain why P/E isn’t the best way to measure valuation. People did whatever was working based more on gut feelings than data.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

And Tom has helped with the introduction of GMO’s first retail product, the quality ETF stock symbol Q-L-T-Y-G-M-O has been institutional since they launched in 1977. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. Just really, really interesting. Finance was the natural fit for GMO. So I was at Harvard.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Walmart Pays Pays Off, Marketplace Lending Falls Off

PYMNTS

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. Knowing those two data points – retail price and what that consumer paid — is like a little reward to that consumer that they saved $25. Zenefits’ Valuation Cut. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital. Sizzle or Fizzle?

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Transcript: Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley

Barry Ritholtz

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. We have institutional clients, we have retail clients, we have, you know, pension funds, we have endowments.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

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. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments.