The Motley Fool

JULY 8, 2023

But before we dive into that, let's think about the leadership of the company and offer an overview there. He's been at the helm since 2007. Mary Long: Yeah, you mentioned Figma, and that's another thing that will look at in a bit. The CEO, Shantanu Norian, has been at Adobe's helm for about 16 years. versus 9.6% for the S&P 500.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. I still don't and when I see these flagrant abuses at private companies, I'd be even tougher on them, lawyering up and using private investigators extensively. In 2007, Taylor won the $1.5M How can this happen?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

So, until the financial crisis of 2007 and 2009 or however you go — you actually time it, I was in this finance bubble. ADMATI: We’re at the mercy of these private companies. RITHOLTZ: Because they’re private companies. But the Sacklers took away a whole bunch of money to private company.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

’cause it’s a pretty wild ride, starting with, you’re working with Peter Legal of Forest River that’s later sold to, to Warren Buffet and, and Berkshire Hathaway’s, but you’re operating as his chief of staff. 00:03:23 And there was a, a gentleman I got introduced to named Pete Legal. So I had a job.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. Barry Ritholtz : 00:06:24 So how do you, how do you shift from m and a legal work to structuring derivatives at Goldman? And I love that. I thought that was really fun.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

If you’re a private company, you don’t have any of those pressures. It’s got a British legal system, a British education system, you know, while there’s 23 different languages that are spoken and more dialects… RITHOLTZ: Everybody speaks English. We actually acquired in 2007 a local asset management.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

The company leaks more water than any other water company in UK, losing the equivalent of up to 250 Olympic size swimming pools every day from its pipes. Its chief executive, Sarah Bentley, resigned last week, weeks after she was asked to forgo her bonus over the company's handling of sewage spills. A bailout is posited.

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