PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

And while the enthusiasm is good, according to Bresniker, the usage is sloppy and tends to obscure the fact that 1) there are many different types of AI, and the one to which we are specifically referring matters; and 2) AI is all math, and its outputs are only as good as the data sources it draws from and the programmers that set its rules.

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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. Absolutely.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. You’re obtaining clients. Do we have their income and tax information?

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. That doesn’t make it a slam dunk — after all, nothing in the mobile payments space is a sure thing — but at least Walmart Pay has taken some important steps to eliminate barriers at the jump. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. Risk management. That’s a long time.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s why we tend to also do investment management, or also do something to implement. 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. What does that look like? Mindy: Yeah.

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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 so, we pivoted to more of a service team.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.

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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 remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

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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. So why rock the boat?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. There’s conversations that happen with our risk management department to make sure we’re comfortable in terms of what kind of exposure that creates in the fund.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Even the guy you think of so highly, you know, after three hedge funds open and close, you got to wonder if there’s some risk management issue there. And all these formally high performers are now just so big, they’re very happy collecting the management fee and the performance fee matters less. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

BORISH: So one of the geniuses of Paul in really understanding futures markets in general is that most of the innovative risk management approaches came out of the futures markets because of the using margin. So now what do you do with risk management? What were you trading and what was he looking at?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core risk management culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade. So I had real support around Wall Street.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. This guy just hired me, the management of this trawler fleet to advise them on whether the management should exercise their legitimate right under the privatization program of Russia to buy 51 percent. So, let me just repeat the math. How many do you have in your fleet?

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