The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But two, because if it's the first stock that you're going to own, I like that it helps you get educated on both hardware, one-off-ish sales and software subscription sales. You can take the lessons you learned from those two sides of the business and start applying them as you move on to your 20 more stocks. What is that?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

KRISTEN BITTERLY MICHELL, HEAD OF NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENTS, CITI GLOBAL WEALTH: It’s really interesting because I’m not someone that you would think would be the typical profile to end up in capital markets or — or sales and trading. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. So I was really investment banking. What was that experience like? What was your trading career like?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So, that makes the finance sector very different than the rest of the stock market? ADMATI: Well, the banking especially because the creditors in banking are particularly passive. In the financial crisis, let’s remember, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley became bank holding companies.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. KLINSKY: You know, and what we were doing was basically advising Goldman clients how to take their own family businesses back off the stock market. I did work on the very first principal investment that Goldman ever did. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. One is if your outperformance is related to an asset class that’s illiquid, when you are too big, you’re going to run out of assets to invest it. I worked really hard. I was born white.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

ASWATH DAMODARAN, KERSCHNER FAMILY CHAIR IN FINANCE EDUCATION, NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: I’m glad to be back. And the only reason I can think for why dividends became the key way of returning cash is I went back to the history of markets. Bond markets preceded stock markets. I know you will also.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2025

Since 1987, the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) has measured market sentiment with weekly surveys. Investors answer a simple question: Do you feel the stock market over the next six months will be up (bullish), no change (neutral), or down (bearish)? trade policy is weighing on the stock market.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

And so, when you take 20 huge investors and you try to go into a tiny illiquid, almost untraded market and all at once try to buy it, what happens? And so, in the course of a couple of weeks after this “Economist” article, the Russian stock market goes up 500 percent and our $25 million turns into $125 million.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 14, 2025

So I I, I started off in that, but I mainly learned that I didn’t really wanna do investment banking because it didn’t hit on my core skillset, which was like engineering back down quantitative techniques and tools. It was accounting, investment banking and consulting. And that’s what I did.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Let’s talk a little bit about your educational background. 00:07:48 [Speaker Changed] Most private equity firms of any consequence were built in New York by people who had been investment bankers. None of our people had been in investment banking. So we were investing our own money alongside our investors.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 31, 2023

And few do it better than Neil does in terms of putting together a global view of what’s happening in the economy, what’s happening around the world, what’s happening with the Fed, and what’s happening with the stock market. So a lot of the investment banking analysts had already lined up their gig.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 18, 2025

Two stocks worth watching: Ansys and Starbucks Macro-focused investor Richard Bernstein walks Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey through the big picture he's seeing, and how tariffs, trade uncertainty, and more flow into what we've seen in the stock market over the past few weeks. It feels like saying the market is wrong.

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