Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

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Accounting 105

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks.

Management 130

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Venture capital, private equity, just were not recruiting for those spaces. Wall Street has been pretty bad at recruiting black talent. RITHOLTZ: So is it safe to say that Wall Street, in general, but alternatives like private equity and venture capital, were not recruiting at historically black colleges and universities?

Recruitment 148

Recruitment Engineering Banking Investing 148

The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

Ilana Weinstein returns to tell us about all the competitive recruiting and superstar talent she’s been working with over the past couple of years. WEINSTEIN: Let me define what we do, because I feel like a fair misconception might be that as a recruiting firm, our job is to help people find jobs. How will I be treated?

Management 148

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. So we have a pretty well tried and tested campus recruitment approach.

Assets 300

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

Banking 205

Banking Government Insurance Taxes 205

The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. And it’s paid off, it’s paid spades in terms of, it helps us make sure that we’re recruiting the right people, it helps us in terms of retaining folks. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about that. I thought that was a really interesting story.

Portfolio 130

Portfolio Investments Investing Numbers 130

The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

You know, I think I went through two weeks of interviews and the recruiters had to be caught up and placated because none of their candidates got the job. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. Like 00:23:35 [Speaker Changed] Probably two. At least they’re sure the better ones do.

Media 148

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

You know, when you, and then we recruit, you know, we talk to people, young people always say, you probably haven’t even ever had a B on your report card. So that’s the math. So your probability of being correct Okay. Is low, right? I mean, like, if you’re 50 50 or 60 40 on your ideas, you’re really good.

Valuation 163

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The math never seems to work out. That’s the start of the process of working with a company, whether it be introducing them to new partnerships or helping them recruit people, their management team or their boards, or helping them navigate sometimes complicated policy issues. No, at the beginning, we make an investment.

Startup 174

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The Big Picture

JULY 29, 2024

00:08:01 [Speaker Changed] And then from AssetMark, in October, 2023, you’re recruited to become CEO at Orion. So my hypothesis about why that donut exists is the big recruiting classes of the wirehouses diminished over that time period. 00:47:38 [Speaker Changed] You know, it’s really interesting.

Clients 148

Clients Portfolio Financial Advisor Investments 148

The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

One of the reasons I went to Merrill is I was recruited by one of my best friends, who is Sally Crotch? 00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? There Lisa Shalett : Were certainly remnants. Sally and I grew up at Sanford Bernstein together Oh. As baby analysts. Remember that.

Asset Allocation 148

Asset Allocation Wealth Management Clients Assets 148

The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Meaning it would be a recruitment challenge. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. He’s the genius in math. First time I learned poker to play in this Math for America Tournament, I didn’t know a whole of them. It’s actually quite beautiful. ASNESS: Yeah. You can help us.

Valuation 174

Valuation Investing Investments Numbers 174

The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. Which was interesting because I actually started my career at JP Morgan Asset Management in the high yield and investment grade credit research team. 00:07:26 And then I moved on to the equities team afterwards. And I just learned a tremendous amount.

Investments 148

Investments Investing Economics Management 148

The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? He gave me his Omega Speedmaster, which is a really nice watch. When I was 16 years old, it was my only nice watch. CLYMER: Yes, around there, I would say. RITHOLTZ: And he purchased it 20, 30 years before?

Retail 174

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: But that math, if you really put it in a calculator … RITHOLTZ: Becomes a problem. RITHOLTZ: We could acquire them for next to nothing. LINDZON: How about zero and less than zero, right? Meaning I show my friend, my free trade on my phone.

Media 291

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

New York Times ) • How Big Toilet Paper dupes us all : The wild, nonsensical world of toilet paper math, explained. ( The Guardian ) • How Does the CIA Recruit Russian Spies? But the court overseeing the bankruptcy put a hold on the sale pending a hearing next week. ( Two years ago, the Agency tried a new approach.

Recruitment 163

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The Big Picture

APRIL 1, 2025

He, like, he stopped doing math and science when he was like seven years old. I recruited them and I talked to them about what stories that they might write. So that I wouldn’t, I mean, Dave has more, those characters are not characters I would’ve naturally sought out. They are characters. And he’s a poet at heart.

Government 259

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It was actually my first expenses that I ever recruited as a New York Times writer. In the recruitment of drivers. I do the math. And I was embarrassed to submit them given tickets [Because it was so expensive?]. It wasn’t that it was so expensive. It was what it was the name of the place!

Manufacturing 261

Manufacturing Consulting Economics Engineering 261