Nationwide Financial

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

For much of the year there has been a divergence between the sentiment of retail investors and their behavior, with investors allocating a net $167 billion to equities this year despite persistent bearishness in surveys. Institutional investors remain cautious, and retail investors are showing signs of capitulation.

Retail 52

Retail Math Banking Economics 52

Good Financial Cents

MARCH 15, 2023

Despite declining overall employment numbers in the field, there are close to 400,000 job openings annually for customer service representatives, according to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics – a testament to how critical the industry is to the U.S. You must also possess solid math and cash-handling skills and be able to multitask.

Communication 69

Communication Education Retail Banking 69

The Big Picture

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. New York is number one. Two reasons.

Assets 147

Assets Management Investing Investments 147

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. 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.

Clients 162

Clients Investing Investments Management 162

The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. Number one, a school district is a business. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional.

Banking 147

Banking Economics Business Planning Economy 147

The Big Picture

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. Like I was, I was not expecting that.

Banking 130

Banking Retail Math Management 130

David Nelson

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Do the math. If consumers buy the same number of items and prices are lower, that forces declining sales. In retail you’re talking about single digit margins with little room for error. Bleeding to Death For the rest of that day, retail was under siege. Bloomberg Data Well, the numbers were fine.

Economy 52

Economy Retail Sales Math 52

The Big Picture

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 it actually turns out that away from the retail space, passive is even larger in the institutional space.

Assets 173

Assets Management Portfolio Marketing 173

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

Clients 299

Clients Wealth Management Banking Investing 299

The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. And Greg Davis just does an amazing job. I think you will also.

Portfolio 130

Portfolio Investing Investments Numbers 130

The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

Economy 147

Economy Numbers Marketing Marketing 147

Clever Girl Finance

JULY 13, 2022

If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. You can get your products out into the world without renting a physical retail storefront. It's a great business for women who are highly organized and can explain their organization processes easily to others.

Food 122

Food Advertising Media Planning 122

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Kurtosis is a very fancy word where the higher the number, the greater the risk of an outlier result like 2022. A lower number is a mathematical representation of smoothing out the ride via fewer/smaller outlier results. The math is only off by a shade using leverage via UST and a little bit of SSO, remember RPAR is leveraged.

Portfolio 52

Portfolio Assets Management Math 52

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have institutional clients, we have retail clients, we have, you know, pension funds, we have endowments. So that’s, that’s number one. Because the claims numbers were better. So I would say the challenge of having those roles is that our institutional clients are much shorter term. Is low, right?

Valuation 162

Valuation Clients Investing Investments 162

Good Financial Cents

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

However, by doing a little math, you can easily determine your hourly wage from your annual salary. Calculate the number of hours you work in a year: 40 Hours per week X 52 weeks = 2080 Hours per year. For example, if you’re currently working in the retail industry, you could look for jobs in the banking or technology industries.

Budgeting 64

Budgeting Taxes Transportation Insurance 64

Clever Girl Finance

JUNE 21, 2023

Pro tip: Become a driver for both apps to maximize your number of possible clients. So if you can still rock simple math, you’re great at English or history, or you know a foreign language, then consider becoming an online tutor. Launch your retail arbitrage business What’s retail arbitrage?

Food 52

Food Accounting Retail Clients 52

Good Financial Cents

APRIL 14, 2023

Debt numbers like that can keep a lot of young people from ever getting out of the starting gate. But a major in any common subject, particularly math or science, combined with above-average command of the subject matter are more important. Earning Potential: Varies by hourly rate and number of hours worked per month.

Accounting 91

Accounting Communication Investing Investments 91

Clever Girl Finance

JULY 6, 2023

Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Get your products out into the world without renting a physical retail storefront. With your own online store, you can leverage the power of the internet.

Clients 105

Clients Media License Advertising 105

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: Right.

Investing 263

Investing Investments Numbers Banking 263

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers. It’s what the much maligned retail investor was doing. People are buying junk.

Management 264

Management Investing Investments Retail 264

The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. RITHOLTZ: The whole concept of whisper numbers, which we still use the phrase, but it doesn’t really exist anymore. The numbers are correct. MIELLE: Exactly. MIELLE: Correct.

Assets 285

Assets Investing Investments Management 285

Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

The term “turnkey” means the numbers have been crunched, the home may have been rehabbed, and may already include tenants! Realty Mogul is a real estate crowdfunding platform that pools investors’ money to purchase large ticket properties (office buildings, retail space, etc.). The minimum investment is $5,000.

Accounting 105

Accounting Investing Investments Media 105

Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

Jan 08, 2023 Culture US birth rates are at record lows – even though the number of kids most Americans say they want has held steady [link] There is no mystery here. If you don’t have children while young, odds decrease that you will have children, and a higher number of them. It is the opposite, except in the top decile.

Math 59

Math Assets Banking Government 59

The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. I’m assuming it’s primarily institutional and not retail. You’re actually crunching a lot of numbers.

Banking 147

Banking Marketing Marketing Investing 147

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2023

and I don’t know if this is from the book or or my research, Forbes settled on that number. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

Math 162

Math Numbers Marketing Marketing 162

Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

bloomberg.com) Retail Retail investors aren't slowing down their stock purchases. danieldrezner.substack.com) Economy Another 'steady as she goes' weekly initial unemployment claim number. (novelinvestor.com) Finance Honeywell ($HON) is planning to split into three independent companies. axios.com) Pimco lags in private credit.

Math 147

Math Retail Media Planning 147

The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. So, so you choose a number of specific industries or did you choose them? RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

Retail 130

Retail Government Economy Economics 130

The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

. ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz : This weekend on the podcast, ed Hyman returns to talk about all things economic analysis, what’s going on in the world, how he’s built an incredible career, oh my God, 43 times number one ranked in the Institutional investor survey in economics.

Economy 147

Economy Clients Banking Economics 147

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We’re in the business of sitting in between asset owners, financial advisors, institutions, retail and asset managers, right, the BlackRock, State Street, PIMCO’s of the world, and helping them understand each other. I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. It’s still a fairly small number.

Management 278

Management Assets Portfolio Investing 278

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. Honest back testing, really looking at the numbers versus exaggerating returns and, and making up the claim that something’s live when it’s not.

Portfolio 147

Portfolio Management Marketing Marketing 147

The Big Picture

APRIL 2, 2024

Really, the work he’s done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out, and a number of papers. So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. Am I getting right?

Healthcare 147

Healthcare Medicine Economics Numbers 147

The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 9, 2018

These numbers are so incomprehensibly large that they lack any meaning. In a recent Axios article, Being 30 then and now , the author wrote "In 1975, only a quarter of 25 to 34-year-old men made less than $30K per year, but that number rose to 41% in 2016." It's like saying that Pluto is 4.67 billion miles away from the earth.

Economics 52

Economics Investing Investments Distribution 52

The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

That’s a shocking number. We looked at everything from retail to nursing homes to hospitals to insurance companies to manufacturers. I think there’s a number we have in the book, maybe $70 million or something in fees to take care of. It’s really attracting a lot of retail dollars.

Insurance 147

Insurance Healthcare Retail Medicine 147

The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2024

I don’t, I don’t know what else to say other than there are a few people in the world that understand running a fixed income portfolio on behalf of institutional or retail clients, a as well as Matt Egan does. I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. Matt Eagan.

Portfolio 147

Portfolio Banking Management Portfolio Management 147

The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: So first year at ’01, ‘02, you have Apple and they blew out the store model, the retail model, which no one thought. You know, I’m just a retail Yahoo finance kind of guy. Uh, Fred said to give me your number.” LINDZON: Lesson number two. And they go, what’s street.com’s number.

Media 290

Media Investing Investments Valuation 290

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He was instrumental in getting a number of very positive policy actions passed over the past decade. I’ve interviewed a number of people from Revolution. But unfortunately, just as the product came to market, the whole Atari game market blew up, and retailers didn’t want any new products.

Startup 173

Startup Investing Investments Numbers 173

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? FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. And then he proceeded to say, “Hodinkee is the greatest watch retailer on the planet. Here’s why.”

Retail 173

Retail Insurance Advertising Numbers 173