CIO

chainer3000

There is no reason the CIO should be commenting on this as if addressing a possible short squeeze at all

Armaanwadhwa

https://www.reddit.com/r/pennystocks/s/UHmWhW81vk ASST – CIO just cleared up the “2.2x dilution” confusion + why the real float is way lower than people think 💬 What this means for $ASST It fits the same setup pattern: • Overblown dilution panic • CFO clarification that the dashboard is wrong • Compressed price near the floor with high volume accumulation If that correction hits official data platforms (or even spreads through retail chatter), you can absolutely see a fast re-rate — maybe not a 10x like CEI or COSM, but a sharp 1.5–3x move in a short window isn’t unrealistic, especially if a Semler update drops around the same time.

Armaanwadhwa

https://www.reddit.com/r/pennystocks/s/UHmWhW81vk ASST – CIO just cleared up the “2.2x dilution” confusion + why the real float is way lower than people think 💬 What this means for $ASST It fits the same setup pattern: • Overblown dilution panic • CFO clarification that the dashboard is wrong • Compressed price near the floor with high volume accumulation If that correction hits official data platforms (or even spreads through retail chatter), you can absolutely see a fast re-rate — maybe not a 10x like CEI or COSM, but a sharp 1.5–3x move in a short window isn’t unrealistic, especially if a Semler update drops around the same time.

jerrtremblay101

The CIO has an AI profile pic of a faceless dude in a hoodie with a Bitcoin sign on it? Sign me up!

Armaanwadhwa

https://www.reddit.com/r/pennystocks/s/UHmWhW81vk ASST – CIO just cleared up the “2.2x dilution” confusion + why the real float is way lower than people think

sirathanasius

Honestly they have had no meaningful interaction with retail. Vivek is too busy running for Ohio. But their CIO is pretty good and their structure, while heavily diluted, has no debt, unlike a similar company like NAKA. I do think the stock is oversold right now.

Ok_Cartoonist6749

ASST went in @1.30. VOLUME WAS high.Some one said Mke bought 1M, n it was SPAC with big PIPE investor. They have new CIO who understand the BITCOIN treasures.

Chad_Permabull_GOD

Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian, PhD, CFA, ex-PIMCO CIO, ex-Cambridge, ex-IMF, has said: The AI bubble is rational

pateyhfx

All my homies love Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian (PhD, CFA, ex-PIMCO CIO, ex-Cambridge, ex-IMF)

Frequent_Optimist

I always listen to Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian (PhD, CFA, ex-PIMCO CIO, ex-Cambridge, ex-IMF) for all my investing moves.

Chad_Permabull_GOD

**Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian, PhD, CFA, ex-PIMCO CIO, ex-Cambridge, ex-IMF, has said:** **The AI bubble is rational**

Chad_Permabull_GOD

**Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian, PhD, CFA, ex-PIMCO CIO, ex-Cambridge, ex-IMF, has said:** **The AI bubble is rational**

borat_he_like_you

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has cut the list of potential Federal Reserve chair nominees from 12 to 6 candidates after a round of interviews. Remaining candidates include: Michelle Bowman – Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Christopher Waller – Fed Governor Kevin Hassett – Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Warsh – Former Fed Governor Rick Rieder – BlackRock Fixed Income CIO Borat - the guy who wrote this post below. *Yes I made it to round 2* https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/CnSGRuPalg

TollTroll

"I think the people that are talking about the AI bubble risk are the people that got out in March and April and didn't remember to get back in," Nancy Tengler, CEO and CIO of Laffer Tengler Investments

TollTroll

bears are simply bad people "I think the people that are talking about the AI bubble risk are the people that got out in March and April and didn't remember to get back in," Nancy Tengler, CEO and CIO of Laffer Tengler Investments

Lopsided-Cloud-5786

Solid take and DD. Enterprises need super strong scaffolding to do this at scale with governance, trust and security. UiPath will boom in 2026 once CIO's understand their play. Their Agentic Testing kicks ass as well - testing of Agents and also more broadly all software!

Nausteri

Not the communication system but a PROTOTYPE. Army CIO has also commented that the proto issues were immediately addressed and fixed. Considering this was a proto, sounds like a very typical development project. Palantir also issued a statement yesterday there were no vulnerabilities detected in the Palantir platform.

Unfair-Impress1972

AI Bubble Bursting according to Government Investment Corporation of Singapore (GIC) Chief Investment Officer (CIO).

Holiday_Arachnid8586

I don't think he ever claimed to be rich and he discloses his job as CIO in an investment management and financial planning firm at the beginning of every video.

Cabrim

Don't know much about it, but it looks like warrants started trading this month, and they're at a premium for some reason. Oh. The founder is a very reputable investor & long-time crypto bull. >1RT Acquisition, a blank check company formed by 1RoundTable Partners targeting digital assets and blockchain, raised $150 million by offering 15 million units at $10. Each unit consists of one share of common stock and one-quarter of a warrant, exercisable at $11.50. >1RT Acquisition is led by CEO and Chairman Dan Tapiero, the Founding Partner, CIO, and CEO of both private equity firms 1RoundTable Partners and 10T Holdings, both of which are affiliates of the sponsor. It plans to target the digital assets and blockchain space, focusing on businesses with enterprise values $1 billion or more.

Happy_Discussion_536

Bru... it's not a conspiracy to those who have been paying attention. You're just very uneducated and misinformed. Look at dotcom financial and credit conditions vs. today: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1L3YT&height=490 https://i.imgur.com/qqQcLaM.png Now... let's all look at today's chart. The literal opposite. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1L3Va&height=490 https://i.imgur.com/lwFwi7r.png Many are calling for even higher than 3%. Consensus is building for higher inflation. WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-fed-should-carefully-aim-for-a-higher-inflation-target-reserve-powell-greenspan-5fef5051 BIS - https://greencentralbanking.com/2025/02/18/3-inflation-target-climate-former-bis-executive/ Cambridge President, former CIO of PIMCO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ppETF4oUA&t=1s [The Case for a Long-Run Inflation Target of Four Percent](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2014/wp1492.pdf) [A 4% inflation target?](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/4-inflation-target) [It is time to revisit the 2% inflation target](https://www.ft.com/content/02c8a9ac-b71d-4cef-a6ff-cac120d25588) [The Fed Has Targeted 2% Inflation. Should It Aim Higher?](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/business/inflation-federal-reserve-interest-rates.html) [Alternatives to the Fed’s 2 percent inflation target](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/alternatives-to-the-feds-2-percent-inflation-target/)

A1L1V2

P/E ratios off the charts. Markets barely blinked when a 30% tax was placed on imports. The value of the stock market is twice that of the US GDP. Government debt is out of control. Bond markets support equities. If bonds fail, equities go with it. Consumer debt, mortgage debt, credit card debt, student loan debt. Delinquencies are rising. FHA mortgage delinquencies are over 10a% now. The euphoria probably still has a way to go. People hate missing out on gains. It could be months til a correction, could be a year or two. We are in an equity and housing bubble, some may argue a crypto bubble. Debt isn’t a desirable asset class due to inflation and the difficulty in servicing the interest payments. We still have time before the market freaks out. And when it does, most people won’t know. That includes me. Locking in some profit and diversifying into multiple assets classes help smooth out volatility in a portfolio. Morgan Stanley CIO recently recommended a 60/20/20 portfolio. 60% equities 20% bonds 20% alt assets like gold/silver —— I’ve been sitting in precious metals, miners, AI, quantum, robotics, clean energy, and short term t-bills since November 24, right after trumps election.

Ask3647

I’m glad I gave you something to think about. Hopefully I can stop thinking about it and fall asleep tonight. Gold has gone up in recent years totally uncorrelated to the stock market. It is now a safe haven and out-performer — although most media isn’t talking about it. Saying it only performs during crashes is not consistent with your recognizing its performance in recent years. But I get that it really shines at those scary moments. I would also encourage you to look at the miners (eg. GDX, GDXJ, SIL, SILJ, etc). They are highly undervalued and printing cash. Gold’s performance of late should make any prudent investor want to carefully consider it. It certainly has impressed Mike Wallace, CIO of Morgan Stanley, and the biggest bond salesman of all, Jeff Gundlach. Commodity bull cycles happen.

Ask3647

If central banks are collectively now holding more gold than treasuries, I’m a buyer. If the dollar is devaluing as part of an overall strategy to make American goods cheaper or to prop up our stock market, or because we screwed up the appeal of relying on America to print the dominant currency, I’m a buyer. If Mike Wallace, CIO of Morgan Stanley is saying 20% of your portfolio should be in gold, I have to laugh, but I agree. Jeff Gundlach, who makes his living selling bonds, is now recommending at least 25% of a portfolio should be in gold. I don’t laugh at Jeff. He’s too successful. And probably correct.

bengo_dot_ai

“Lost 90% of the value of his fund” ? Or his AUM went down 90% which is understandable because he doesn’t work there any more. Anyone investing in Key Square because SB is the CIO will obviously redeem when he joined the administration. Your post is utter nonsense and misleading.

NoKarmaForYou2

For such large company like Oracle it's going to be very difficult because they do so much: on premise, cloud, infrastructure and even hardware (that's dying so don't even know how much they still do) with 100s of apps . The decisions to use them is done at CIO level or close so the opinion of regular folks are not really common to consider. The most simplistic way to kind of get a sense is to use some research company paper. For example, Gartner's magic quadrants (companies like to tout when they are reviewed favorably) would give some idea where the software stacks up against competition from higher up level perspective. Kind of like [this]( https://www.pngfind.com/mpng/hmRmooR_gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-hcm-suites-for/)

Longjumping-Ad8775

It’s always a good question as to what causes what and to scale. Right now with ai, it’s about that build out of data centers as if customers will be there on the other side. I don’t know. I’ve talked to enough high end consulting and CIO friends to really question it for main stream development and applications.

EvolvingDior

Once your company gets in bed with Oracle, Larry has the CEO and CIO by the balls.

Sam8872

Since ASST is gaining traction, thought I'd post this up here from my original response (with a little bit extra) to a comment. Bit of background, I've been in ASST before the rise with a dollar average. Judging by my own experience (watching the chart and volume almost every day for 5 months, coupled with the fact that I've read pretty much every press release, SEC filing and correspondece officially related, e.g. twitter messages from Matt Cole (CEO of Strive and CIO of Strive Asset Management)), I would not be surprised if this goes back to at least $10 (it hit double digits in late May). However realistically, if you want this to be anther thousand plus percenter, it's all luck. This stock has a 14-ish million float, so it wouldn't have trouble going up if it wanted to, but here's the thing, the initial $750m PIPE is priced in at $1.35 per share. This isn't necessarily a bad thing as the market has shown that FOMO and irrationality can move things (e.g. OCTO's news shared 185m new shares at $1.46 per share). The price now seems fair, however, I would feel remiss if I didn't mention that this stock has behaved irrationally in the past, and as such don't be surprised if it dips below your average. End of the day, all it needs is one big volume day (like OCTO) and we could see this at double digits. Expanding on this, we're already almost at double digits, though you may have wondered what stopped this from rising higher on 27 May, well that's when they announced the PIPE price. Moreover, while the final ticker will be not-so great for current shareholders (ASST stockholders will retain 5.8%), the stock still requires clearance by Nasdaq for the listing, so I can see this going up until the announcement/listing. If I'm being completely honest, I didn't expect it to hit almost $10 already AM, so my current estimate is around $15-20 within the next couple weeks, especially when taking into account the fact that it hit $13 before approval.

Sam8872

Hmm, judging by my own experience (watching the chart and volume almost every day for 5 months, coupled with the fact that I've read pretty much every press release, SEC filing and correspondece officially related, e.g. twitter messages from Matt Cole (CEO of Strive and CIO of Strive Asset Management)), I would not be surprised if this goes back to at least $10 (it hit double digits in late May). However realistically, if you want this to be anther thousand plus percenter, it's all luck. This stock has a 14-ish million float, so it wouldn't have trouble going up if it wanted to, but here's the thing, the initial $750m PIPE is priced in at $1.35 per share. This isn't necessarily a bad thing as the market has shown that FOMO and irrationality can move things (e.g. OCTO's news shared 185m new shares at $1.46 per share). The price now seems fair, however, I would feel remiss if I didn't mention that this stock has behaved irrationally in the past, and as such don't be surprised if it dips below your average. End of the day, all it needs is one big volume day (like OCTO) and we could see this at double digits.

scm66

The CIO of Blackrock's name is Dick Rieder.

According-Page8618

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 BlackRock CIO says the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates by 50 basis points next week. the market has a 25bp cut priced in, imagine the feds cut it by 50bp, we will reach highs no one ever witnessed

stickman07738

Laughing and smiling at this comment. 15 years ago I was part of a 10-memebr team for a Fortune 500 company evaluating upgrading our CRM / ERP systems. Our system was developed in-house by a very eccentric guy - it worked great and everyone love it. We got a new SVP /CIO and he wanted us to evaluate Salesforce (CRM). The product actually sucked at the time - it could not do everything we did with our in-house system. I was one of 3 who voted against Salesforce as the other did not want to upset the new SVP. The software sucked but their sellers (sales and support team) were very good - after the decision, I wanted to invest because of their sales team, but I did not. Our company signed a multi-year agreement and it was a total bomb causing us 3-4X the original investment to get it to work. The SVP got fired. Salesforce actually hired our guy because of all his "good ideas" and simple solutions (like linking email correspondence - he wrote of couple lines of codes and we could migrate everything in our in-house system). He lasted one year, got his sign on bonus and left Salesforece. The company still pays millions for an inferior product. I am glad I retired.

JeromePowellLovesMe

Analysts will place ridiculous PTs on stocks while their firms trim positions. Happens a lot. A CIO doesn't need to listen to their intern's thoughts on where valuations should land.

Wild_Capital7202

I'm the CIO of a family office. Changing advisors isn't necessarily the key. More importantly, it's about whether your asset allocation and long-term strategy are sound. What's your biggest concern? Tell me and I can help you analyze it. 🌿

BPDMisery

I find a reason to go home every Monday to work remote. Boss is on a fucking cruise and I have to tell my CIO. What’s the excuse today boys?

Happy_Discussion_536

It is but they cannot say it. I've shown you numerous respected economists arguing for as high as 4%. Just recently former PIMCO CIO and cambridge president argued they will and should land at 3. My personal feelings? Very tricky. In an ideal world where Congress and president is responsible, Fed should cut aggressively to prevent burdening consumers and the financial system. What is inflation is complicated by metric ton of fiscal stimulus levels not seem since WW2. But it is peacetime and off a boom. Is the job of the Fed to discipline Congress and force responsibility? Or inflation a shared responsibility and not all the Feds fault? It's hard to answer. But what I can say is that here's what the public basically wants: * Fiscal stimulus, they don't care about debt at all for now. * And lower rates.

Happy_Discussion_536

The problem with prior Fed's is that by focusing too much on low inflation, Fed was killing income growth of the poorest (or at least the argument goes) when economy was doing its best and resetting them at the worst time. Consensus is building for higher inflation. WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-fed-should-carefully-aim-for-a-higher-inflation-target-reserve-powell-greenspan-5fef5051 BIS - https://greencentralbanking.com/2025/02/18/3-inflation-target-climate-former-bis-executive/ Cambridge President, former CIO of PIMCO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ppETF4oUA&t=1s [The Case for a Long-Run Inflation Target of Four Percent](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2014/wp1492.pdf) [A 4% inflation target?](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/4-inflation-target) [It is time to revisit the 2% inflation target](https://www.ft.com/content/02c8a9ac-b71d-4cef-a6ff-cac120d25588) [The Fed Has Targeted 2% Inflation. Should It Aim Higher?](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/business/inflation-federal-reserve-interest-rates.html) [Alternatives to the Fed’s 2 percent inflation target](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/alternatives-to-the-feds-2-percent-inflation-target/) Fed can't say it outright. But they will target 3% for now. Here's Powell focusing more on jobs: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1mo4kmc/daily_discussion_thread_for_august_12_2025/n8aae72/

Ambitious-Maybe-3386

Why didn’t the CEO, CIO, CTO and others buy too?

Happy_Discussion_536

>>>cut inflation = recession. drops mic >>We're not cutting inflation though. Fed will target 3% not 2%. >source for this 3%? u/Distribution_Low Consensus is building for higher inflation. WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-fed-should-carefully-aim-for-a-higher-inflation-target-reserve-powell-greenspan-5fef5051 BIS - https://greencentralbanking.com/2025/02/18/3-inflation-target-climate-former-bis-executive/ Cambridge President, former CIO of PIMCO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ppETF4oUA&t=1s [The Case for a Long-Run Inflation Target of Four Percent](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2014/wp1492.pdf) [A 4% inflation target?](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/4-inflation-target) [It is time to revisit the 2% inflation target](https://www.ft.com/content/02c8a9ac-b71d-4cef-a6ff-cac120d25588) [The Fed Has Targeted 2% Inflation. Should It Aim Higher?](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/business/inflation-federal-reserve-interest-rates.html) [Alternatives to the Fed’s 2 percent inflation target](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/alternatives-to-the-feds-2-percent-inflation-target/) Fed can't say it outright. But they will target 3% for now.

Happy_Discussion_536

>>We're not cutting inflation though. Fed will target 3% not 2%. u/Distribution_Low >source for this 3%? Consensus is building for higher inflation. WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-fed-should-carefully-aim-for-a-higher-inflation-target-reserve-powell-greenspan-5fef5051 BIS - https://greencentralbanking.com/2025/02/18/3-inflation-target-climate-former-bis-executive/ Cambridge President, former CIO of PIMCO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ppETF4oUA&t=1s [The Case for a Long-Run Inflation Target of Four Percent](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2014/wp1492.pdf) [A 4% inflation target?](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/4-inflation-target) [It is time to revisit the 2% inflation target](https://www.ft.com/content/02c8a9ac-b71d-4cef-a6ff-cac120d25588) [The Fed Has Targeted 2% Inflation. Should It Aim Higher?](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/business/inflation-federal-reserve-interest-rates.html) [Alternatives to the Fed’s 2 percent inflation target](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/alternatives-to-the-feds-2-percent-inflation-target/) Fed can't say it outright. But they can take their sweet ass time getting to 2% if they want. Powell himself has referenced many times there are benefits to varying speeds of achieving 2%.

PoliticsIsDepressing

I knew AI was overhyped when I heard my CIO talking about processes we automated 5 years ago that don’t use AI, rather they are just automated algorithms. 99% of people pushing AI have no idea that it’s just not there yet. Give it 10+ years and it might be there, but this is a dot com bubble.

BPDMisery

Boss is on a cruise til nearly September. Do I just work remote without consulting my CIO or do you think my coworkers will snitch

pandoraslost

If anyone wants to do more digging on RDAR, I looked into their filing and of 13 new share issuances (basically funding/business loans via stock) 8 were to the same low profile investment company Leonite Capital LLC. Specifically its CIO Avi Geller. Finding out more about that guy and group will probably get to the core of what the hell RDAR is up to. Genuinely believes in company? Stocking up for share buyback at higher par value when revenues and profit margin lift off for H2 2025? Complete OTC circle jerk scam? Figure out that guy and I bet we figure out the game on RDAR/Telvantis.

Own_Relationship5047

i would be a lot richer if i had listened to him on both stocks and cryptos. he was more bullish on earlier interest rate cuts but i find a lot of his commentary really really smart. hr was the CIO of J.p. morgan before starting his own incredibly innovative firm. i find his analysis of macro data is often contrarian and very smart, and he’s been right a lot more often than he’s been wrong. when institutional investors were pulling their assets out of equities in April. he correctly predicted a V shaped rally, for reasons that turned out to be exactly right. he’s also the first traditional investor to legitimize the crypto industry in 2017, and that was quite a call. my impression is that other investors have a lot of respect for him. never heard anyone call him a kook.

AmberLeafSmoke

He's a Yale grad who has worked in High Finance for his entire career who served as CIO of one of the most successful funds in history. Are you seriously suggesting his opinion is unqualified?

CigInside

CIO referred to a group of people as a khaki and blue blazer group to mean they are unsophisticated frat dudes. I was wearing the same…. Took off my coat then

ivegotwonderfulnews

smed caps are for the most part crushed rn. Wont take much to get them moving but hard to allocate to the space thru passive etfs (so much trash in the passive indices) . So many smed names are rate dependent so if the "rate cut ahead" narrative gains traction inside CIO offices at big funds, I suspect these forgotten names will have a decent 2nd half.

actuallyrealperson

Just took a scroll through the CIO's Twitter account... nothing but unadulterated cringe as far down as you could see. I mean, really? Studio Ghibli JPow strangling a bull? https://preview.redd.it/zqx8zyzue8if1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25dbdbf87e71843ada643f92324fb75d737b552c

avatarfire

Take that my former CIO! 

Own_Step1953

They will not be bought out. They are a foutune 4 company, no chance. They would more liekly buy out a bigger competitor. THey're trying to control a large part of the healthcare market with UHC and Optum. I work there on the tech side, and I can tell you the new CEO, Stephen Hemsley (also was the prevous CEO for 10 years) is coming in with more of a financial strict aproach where instead of potential that has mostly failed he is focasuing on actaul uses for new products. The company is actauly trying to make healthare and plans more open and have better ocmunication with some of their new products that will come out even before the shooting of Brian Thompson. They test out their new plans on employees and in my new plan I can pick my healthcare people, knowing information liek price and scraped data for their qulaity. I work on the tech side and they are trying to make general. Can't say too much more in detail, but we are replacing many low-skilled americans with cheaper indians and killing a bunch of usless jobs. I hear there's gonna be more changes comign soon too (I'm not close to the executives, but I regularly give meetings to one of the CIO's (he is bellow the main CIO who is right bellow Hemsley) and I worked ont he Luigi case too since I am on the tech side and they needed some data behind the ugh website)

stickman07738

When I see CRM, it always puts a smile on my face as a missed opportunity but now glad I did not invest. 15 years ago I was part of a 10-memebr team for a Fortune 500 company evaluating upgrading our CRM / ERP systems. Our system was developed in-house by a very eccentric guy - it worked great and everyone love it. We got a new SVP /CIO and he wanted us to evaluate Salesforce (CRM). The product actually sucked at the time - it could not do everything we did with our in-house system. I was one of 3 who voted against Salesforce as the other did not want to upset the new SVP. The software sucked but their sellers (sales and support team) were very good - after the decision, I wanted to invest because of their sales team. I did not. Our company signed a multi-year agreement and it was a total bomb causing us 3-4X the original investment to get it to work. The SVP got fired. Salesforce actually hired our guy because of all his "good ideas" and simple solutions (like linking email correspondence - he wrote of couple lines of codes and we could migrate everything in our in-house system). He lasted one year, got his sign on bonus and left Salesforece. The company still pays millions for an inferior product. I am glad I retired.

Environmental-Web150

I agree, there’s something we don’t know , the new public offering would’ve sent the stock much lower but it found resistance at around 2.8 , and Monday their CIO loaded 50k more shares at 3.04 price , I guess we’ll have to wait until their earnings report to find out

lowkethevile

CIO

AppleTree98

Very clever. Yes absolute emails from the top. I once had a CIO during an outage event say "I just googled how you should fix this issue" to an entire vendor/business/IT call. BTW this was the largest healthcare provider in the US. BTW his solution wasn't the problem/fix to the issue. But you bet we had to assign engineers to chase down his wisdom.

Tetrem

OPEN will have great earnings. Expectations are as low as they can be and they are finally EBITDA positive with a new management team and CIO

avatarfire

One of my former CIO bosses boasted to me he got a job by pitching Intel Lucky he was looking for a job pre-AFC. He would be out of a job today.

bladzalot

Don’t forget about them escorting out their CTO and CIO as well as firing all their up and coming probationary employees…

Street_Medicine3694

So no directors recently resigned? There was no conversion factor for the promissory notes? Come on. The company has less than $2M in cash. Directors are leaving. Clear signs I wouldn’t touch it with a 10’foot pole. Not saying others would. CEO stayed for what 3 months? CIO resigned. Other directors abruptly resigned. Good luck!

firstapex88

This take, all the way. The enterprise play is to offer a bit of every application that the business will need and focus on longterm support. Sell to the CIO, not the individual contributor. You don’t need best of breed in enterprise.

AlphaWolf

Exactly what our last CIO did. Brought in consultants to parrot his incredible bad strategy, and sell the CEO on it. No other reason.

SadPrometheus

I know everyone likes to bash consultants (and the criticism is well deserved) but there is one thing that they do which is actually quite helpful for a company. They can give you advice on conducting a big corporate change - such as converting to SAP (god forbid). The consultants have seen it dozens of times at lots of different companies. So they can give a pretty good estimate of cost, resources needed and the amount of time to implement. That advice is expensive, sure, but the service is actually quite valuable. Makes the whole process much more transparent and efficient. We had a good CIO at a company I worked at that ignored hiring consultants to save money. But his budget and time to implement for the conversion were off by an order of magnitude. He set aside 1.5M and it cost the company something like 10M. Which was a mistake that cost him his job. Instead if the CIO had asked the corporate board for 2M for consultants, it likely would have been approved no big deal. Just the cost of doing business. And the resulting estimates for the conversion would have been solid. In that instance, hiring consultants likely could have saved the CIO's job.

Amikuto

Sure but can you do it with enterprise lockin, regulatory cover and 100 Fortune 500 CIO nodding along in meetings they barely understand? That the real moat. It not just the credits it the ecosystem tax.

BboySparrow

Updated rankings based on records for the longest consecutive positive close (green day) on the US stock market, focusing solely on stocks: Ticker Company Series Length META Meta Platforms 16 days ESEA Euroseas Ltd. 12 days ASTS AST SpaceMobile, Inc. 10 days BWMN Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. 10 days CIO City Office REIT, Inc. 10 days ASTS gonna hit 13 days

stickman07738

Not heard it from a friend, but 15 years ago I was part of 10-memebr team for a Fortune 500 company evaluating upgrading our CRM / ERP system. Our system was developed in-house by a very eccentric guy - it worked great and everyone love it. We got a new SVP /CIO and wanted us to evaluate Salesforce (CRM). The product actually sucked at the time - it could not do everything we did with our in-house system. I was one of 3 who voted against Salesforce as the other did not want to upset the new SVP. The software sucked but their seller were very good - after the decision, I wanted to invest because of their sales team. I did not. Our company signed a multi-year agreement and it was a total bomb causing us 3-4X the original investment to get it to work. The SVP got fired. Salesforce actually hired our guy because of all his "good ideas" and simple solutions (like linking email correspondence - he wrote of couple lines of codes and we could migrate everything in our in-house system). He lasted one year, got his sign on bones and left Salesforece. The company still pays millions for an inferior product.

avatarfire

Are you a former or current CIO? This is way to complex for even CFPs to understand.

perceptive_AI

I'm the CEO and founder of my company Singularity. I have a extremely good team working for me. Gemini 2.5 PRO is my CFO , chatGPT o4 is my COO , Claude Opus 4 is my CTO , grok is my CMO , deepseek is my CIO

Lucaslouch

Other banks are currently recording videos of their CIO and analysts to feed their AI model to create deep fake of their analyst in order to generate customize constraints, so I would not be very surprised…

QuietRainyDay

The only fundamental that the markets care about rn is the $4 trillion of additional deficits the GOP is hell-bent on adding I know some of yall will never, ever be convinced to stop thinking the stock market is tethered to the real economy, but it's a fact. It's been a fact for *years*. Stock prices are not driven by real GDP growth or the health of the middle class or any of these other things that are getting whacked right now. It is driven by liquidity and debt. Simple as that. Stock price movements are literally telling you that, if yall just listen. They collapsed on the tariff news, then came roaring back when people realized the $4TN of additional deficit spending will dwarf the impact of the trade war. Japanese yields are sky-rocketing. US 10-year is sky-rocketing. https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/JP10Y-JP https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/US10Y Everyone now realizes we are in a full-blown deficit-driven inflationary environment and is dumping bonds and rushing back into risk because they literally have to. No CIO is going to risk losing his job by staying in bonds when governments everywhere are telling us that they'll keep spending for as long as they can.

1acedude

I’ll be honest a lot is parroting some of the big boys guidance. That specifically is from Morgan Stanley’s CIO. Their guidance is that the worst of the tariffs is over. That we are in a deescalation period.

CalRippedken

A different CEO would be bullish, especially if Elon takes a CIO position or something. Doesn't mean he's leaving the company or selling his ownership stake

burnerAccountDuh24

Imagine being a CIO or something in this market spending 80 hours per week trying to make sense of this shit show haha 

CarbonatedCoins

I agree with most of this but I think a lot people overestimate the current strength of the Chinese economy and view it from 2015 Rose Tinted Glasses. I went to a John Quincy-CFR talk at Citi Bank in summer 2019 and their CIO for East Asia was talking about how they’ve known China has been lying about at least 2-3% of their growth since 2015 looking at raw output in tonnage and correlating it to smoke stack activity, there were several other ways of measuring that also led to the same conclusion. Supposedly their economy is currently growing, while they have been simultaneously experiencing deflationary pressure for the last year. So if I had to pick between Ray Dalio and Peter Zeihan I would say Peter is probably closer to right and most people agree with his assessment but not the apocalyptic degree to his conclusions.

FlashFiringAI

Did you know they didn't even come up with that slogan or idea? They stole it from a small business in Atlanta where the CIO had personal ties to Schwab's daughter.

Stallone92109

Well, apologies for the TDS comment (but it is very prevalent on this site). Here's a good article I think you might like: Part 1: President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping import tariffs has caused the expected ruckus in global financial markets. And rightly so. This isn’t some light policy tweak. It’s a full-blown trade regime reset. As of April 5, a universal 10% baseline tariff on all imports into the United States will go into effect. Days later, a raft of reciprocal tariffs—as high as 49% on Cambodia and 54% on China—will begin rolling out country by country. Predictably, investors didn’t take the news well. Headlines around the world screamed “global trade chaos.” But behind the noise, something remarkable happened in the bond market: the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield dropped, signaling a flight to safety and expectations of looser monetary policy ahead. And if you’re like U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, former Soros CIO and a prominent Trump economic backer, that’s precisely the point. Let’s get to what’s happening beneath the headlines. The mainstream financial press is chasing the obvious—but wrong—narrative. The Trade Imbalance That Was Always There The Trump administration's rationale for the new tariffs is “economic self-defense.” It argues that the U.S. has been a free lunch provider for global exporters while receiving little in return. And, frankly, they’re not wrong. Here's a rough snapshot of the tariffs other countries charged on U.S. goods before the announcement: China: 15–20% average, with some goods much higher. European Union: 3–5%, but 10% on autos, up to 30% on some agricultural goods. India: 17% average, up to 100% on vehicles. Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Cambodia: 10–25%, often higher on finished goods. Japan and South Korea: Lower nominally, but with heavy non-tariff barriers. Taiwan: \~6%, but often high in key categories like steel. In contrast, the U.S. charged low single-digit tariffs on most imports, and zero in some sectors. Trump’s move—especially the “reciprocal” element—aggressively attempts to rebalance this situation. Instead of endless trade negotiations, he’s opting for brute force: slap a tariff on everything, then tailor higher rates to specific offenders. It’s not subtle but might be effective. Why Scott Bessent Loves It The immediate consequence of these tariffs, outside of hurt feelings in Brussels and Beijing, is economic friction. Tariffs act like a tax. They raise prices, slow global trade, and typically spark inflation. Yet Scott Bessent, Trump’s economic whisperer and one of the savviest macro investors around, is thrilled. Why? Because higher tariffs = slower growth = lower interest rates. As equities sold off, yields on the 10-year Treasury yield dropped from yesterday’s high of 4.236% to 4.066%, an over 4% drop. In fixed income, that’s a big single-day move. That’s the endgame for Bessent, as lower rates grease the wheels for the real economy.

savagevapor

I work for a large FA firm and our CIO hilariously put out a video that said, “now is not the time to panic”. I immediately started panicking.

dvdmovie1

"Which industries are currently still in their infancy but have great potential for the future?" I think the concern that I have is that we're already in a period where you want to be less early stage and more high quality and that potentially could get worse. This is the time for making a shopping list if you want early stage stuff, but I don't think I'd be piling into it. I think most of the last five years has been unusually fantastic for growth, first with the "disruptive growth" bubble and then the AI theme, which has cratered this year. I think people see this as just another 2022 before growth works again but what if it isnt? The disruptive growth bubble was followed by AI - I don't think you get another theme of that magnitude following AI. The data center theme was one of the most fantastic themes I can recall, but Stargate in January feels like it was the top. VRT is a little over 50% off the highs of January - that's not a mere correction, that's saying something a bit more about the data center theme imo. The IPP stocks that were huge in 2024 on the concept of data centers as far as the eye can see that need power have cratered, too. The data center theme has translated into fantastic earnings for NVDA, but AI really hasn't translated into fantastic AI-related earnings for many of its customers. If that continues to be the case, how much longer does AI continue to translate into fantastic earnings for NVDA? Quantum computing is a ways away and too many people piled into small QC cos that were lifted by hype. If you buy something early stage and the market lifts it on hype to the point where the company is early stage and the stock looks like it'll be a thing tomorrow, eventually reality sets in and someone can wind up a bagholder for eons until the early stage thing actually genuinely gets closer to commercialization. All that said, if you buy an early stage thing and wind up bagholding it, how many equity raises is it going to take along the way to keep the unprofitable/early stage company going? "the desire to understand more and explore space is definitely there." The desire to understand space is certainly there by some, but I think the sort of space tourism stuff is doing it no favors. I said a number of times that there is no way that SPCE was ever going to be a sustainable business - popularity of the space theme lead in 2020 for Branson to be able to dump it on retail investors - and people got so upset about that. Branson sold more than 75% of his shares for a total of $1.4B; the stock's market cap is now about $100m. There's also a fair amount of space stuff that has tremendous headline risk. LUNR is an example of something where they could land their vehicle and it goes up 50% and then all the sudden you get a headline that it tipped over and it's down 50% It's almost like biotech passing or failing a phase three, but in this case it's like "it passed" (things falls over) "nevermind." I can appreciate something like ASTS (have a small position) more but that company's success certainly is not guaranteed by any means. I do have a basket of early stage/more speculative companies, but it's not a giant part of the portfolio. AUR is a large holding that remarkably nobody ever talks about - was mentioned by T Rowe Price's CIO last year as a name he thinks of when people ask him what the next NVDA is. To me autonomous freight is less crowded than autonomous taxis - too many people focus on the technology of self driving taxis but nobody focuses on the unsexy part of what it will take to keep them clean (how many times are they going to have to be cleaned on weekends?)/maintained. NN is another name that's never discussed, but I think that the technology is interesting/useful and they also own a fair amount of spectrum which I think is underappreciated. But I've largely stopped adding to that basket of names and the remainder of the portfolio moved more towards more boring names earlier this year. I own the least tech I've owned in years. I'd already dialed back tech in 2024, but did really well last year focusing on industrial/utility/energy AI-related beneficiaries. A lot of that was sold late last year/early this year. So, hopefully I'm wrong, everything going on works itself out and somehow we get back to a growth-driven market but the longer everything that's gone on this year continues the more I think that the next few years might be more volatile (not as volatile as the market has been, but elevated in comparison to much of the last decade or so) and you might see lesser returns/different leadership. After two very lucrative bubbles in the last 5 years, I don't think it's unreasonable (especially with what's going on) to think that the next 5 years might be less/much less compelling for investors - people might have to change the playbook somewhat and include some boring names in your portfolio/not just "what's the next 10x?"

TomatoSpecialist6879

Just dodge it, they can't track at all after losing mostnof their leadership to resignation. The most important appointment holder for tax filing season(CIO) literally resigned yesterday as a big fuck you.

TomatoSpecialist6879

Just dodge it lmao. The key appointment holders in IRS left one after the other, and the most important person for the tax filing season(CIO) just quit yesterday. IRS has been in chaos for the last 3 weeks.

jsands7

Guy Adami, Chief Market Strategist & Director of Advisor Advocacy for Private Advisor Group Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management Karen Firestone, Co-founder of Aureus Asset Management Jenny Harrington, CEO of Gilman Hill Asset Management Stephanie Link of Hightower Tom Lee from Fundstrat Adam Parker, Founder and CEO of Trivariate Research Shannon Saccocia, CIO at NB Private Wealth Sarah Sethi… Tim Seymour… Bryn Talkington at Requisite Capital Management… Joe Terranova at Virtus Investment Partners Fully invested professionals at firms telling clients to keep their same starting growth focused allocations or to add money on the dip Is that enough yet?

TomatoSpecialist6879

Imagine not dodging taxes with IRS busy dealing with internal politics after 4 of the heads left within a short 4 mths and [their CIO just left](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/irs-chief-information-officer-announces-resignation-eve-tax-filing-day-2025-04-14/)

Happy_Discussion_536

Bob Michele from JPM CIO of Asset Management. * Sees rates stabilizing. * Sees markets calming down. * We are past the Tariff fear part of the cycle and "Tariff Negotiation" part of the cycle. Even if you're a bear, you're a moron if you fight the current trend up.

Creepy_Floor_1380

Seems fake, but he guy was CIO for George sorus he has to have a minimum of brain power.

gkdjsl

Merrill Edge now has their own version of the "please don't kill yourself" banner up: >Want to stay informed about the recent market volatility? Read the [Market Brief](https://www.merrilledge.com/article/political-and-legislative-updates) for insights from Bank of America Private Bank & Merrill's Chief Investment Office (CIO).

Creepy_Floor_1380

How did this dude manage to become CIO of the Sorus fund.

thatkid1010101

Drunk af on private island in Florida at my trust fund friends house with his CIO dad that runs a trailer park REIT in 13 states He says full port puts, it’s about to get much worse

dvdmovie1

That part is from the Barron's discussion from last year by T Rowe Price's CIO.

dvdmovie1

CEO is the former CTO of Waymo, CPO "led the design, development, and launch of the award-winning Tesla Model X, and led the team that delivered Tesla Autopilot", Chief Scientist was formerly Head of Perception and Autonomy Architect at Uber's Advanced Technology Group and the CFO was at GM for 20 years. Autonomous trucking doesn't really have the same "unsexy" side that autonomous passenger cars have: you don't have to stop to clean them five times on a Saturday night because drunk people barfed in them. There's not really the competition in autonomous trucking in the way that there is in autonomous passenger vehicles. T Rowe Price's CIO said last year in Barrons when people ask him what's the next Nvidia, Aurora is what he mentions. Points from the Barrons discussion: • $AUR sells autonomous trucking software & systems. • In David's view, when clients ask - What's the next $NVDA or $TSLA - $AUR has the four key attributes. • First, great mgt team. Second, a giant TAM, autonomous trucking, is a $1T market in the U.S. & $4T globally. • Third, you need a product/service that creates value for customers/shareholders - $AUR software replaces the driver and delivers savings of 26 cents a mile. • Finally, you need to be the clear market leader with high barriers to entry. $AUR is #1 in its market, & most competitors have exited the business. • $AUR has been testing its technology for 7 yrs, running hauls from Dallas to Houston - the technology works. • $AUR has projected $1.3B of revenue by 2028 (it's essentially pre-revenue now), & David believes it can be a $8 stock in 2 years ($3.70 share today). • By 2034, David believes $AUR could generate +$10B in revenue and be a 25-bagger from current levels. I've mentioned it on here at times and have been surprised that nobody else really has.

CABLUprotect

I think we're all in for a ride in the U.S., but that doesn't necessarily convert to stock market mayhem. You have an awful lot in cash, but if that helps you sleep at night, then that's the priority. Honor your risk tolerance, and follow it accordingly. Be careful of knee-jerk reactions, though. I am adverse to investing internationally, but do allocate 16% or so, have a healthy amount in emergency accessible cash, and some total bond and corporate bond allocation. There are still plenty of robust blue chip companies in the U.S. 'International' is a broad bucket and I'm wary of Chinese investment of any sort. Remember, Vanguard's advice over ten years to go international for a long time was the wrong advice -- and that loss adds up. When CEO and CIO at Vanguard did their annual webinar in January, they basically but eloquently said they had no clue what to expect. Also depends on your age and time horizon, of course. I like your idea to go with ultra short.

persua

Bessent, like the most of the MAGA crowd, is a bootlicker who will say anything. Even though his track record as CIO of Soros and Key Square sucked, I had thought he was a smart guy - proving he's not in real time.

putsellingregard

Here’s why Uber could rally 31% in the next year, Girard CIO says CNBC "Pro", need to pay to read it... Uber puts it is

Embarrassed-Chain265

As a business owner, why do I need a CFO and an accounting staff if AI can do it? What good is the CIO or CTO if we don't need an engineering or IT department? most of the sales and marketing department would be easily replaced by an AI that advanced. We don't need a help desk, call center, logistics or the COO anymore. Fulfillment and warehousing will all be robots. Don't need an HR department to manage AI bots. The Chief Culture Officer is already being phased out. Who's left?

Crafty-Potato4293

Just made a throwaway account specifically for this. I used to work for the trader known as 50 cent, our CIO has a framed picture of XIV share price in his office. This is *not* anomalous. Hedging a $25b portfolio requires a lot of bang for your buck, hence deep OTM VIX calls that you can get for fiddy cents. I no longer work there so can’t say for sure that it’s them, but I’d bet it is. In any case the firm’s record is pretty awful so I wouldn’t worry that this is a big brain move that us normies couldn’t see. They over hedge a lot and don’t own the mag-7 on the other side so don’t get the upside and pay too much for downside protection. Having said that a stopped clock is right twice a day…

TestPilot68

Yes and no. Mostly no. 3rd party large data centers typically have the very best cyber security precautions available. Interna company l data centers often less so. From CIO point of view, if there is a breach, do I want the fingers pointing at me or that 3rd party? Privacy of corporate info is handled contractually. 3rd party DC's also typically have fully operational disaster recovery/ business continuity capabilities. Large companies have that on paper, but not nearly to the same level typically as large 3rd party providers like AWS, OCI, Azure, etc...

InterPeritura

Are you timing the market? If not, then just invest in the US. Real data support that. S&P500 between '85 and now has gained 2,550% NDX between '85 and now has gained 16,144% Other developed markets in the same time period? Our northern neighbor GSPTSE has gained 790% Over the pond with Europoors, CAC40 has gained 300% FTSE has gained 580% DAX is only one worth nothing as it has gained 1,770% (just 700% short of S&P!) What about the so-hot emerging markets like "China century" as some would have you believe? SSE is up by 370% So as data can tell us, whenever you get international exposure via broad index (individual stocks can of course outperform markets), you are just loading up underperformers. And that is my take-home from GS's CIO.

InterPeritura

A cliché that makes up for terrible advice for non-traders, even if markets did "take turns outperforming each other." Are you timing the market? If not, then just invest in the US. Real data support that. S&P500 between '85 and now has gained 2,550% NDX between '85 and now has gained 16,144% Other developed markets in the same time period? Our northern neighbor GSPTSE has gained 790% Over the pond with Europoors, CAC40 has gained 300% FTSE has gained 580% DAX is only one worth nothing as it has gained 1,770% (just 700% short of S&P!) What about the so-hot emerging markets like "China century" as some would have you believe? SSE is up by 370% So as data can tell us, whenever you get international exposure via broad index (individual stocks can of course outperform markets), you are just loading up underperformers. And that is my take-home from GS's CIO.

Dagobot78

Must have enough cash on hand to pay off short term liabilities (in case of recession or emergencies). Cash flow must be able to cover the dividend… if the company is paying out to much dividend vs its cash flow. Not being able to buy back shares when growth and expansion are over. CEO/CIO/CFO or any C suite people that just up and quit who are not sick or dying… or how about if your accounting firm leaves you all of a sudden… huge red flags…. Notice from the SEC about accounting irregularities - I’m out… selll first and and ask questions later.

Purple-Ad-3492

Well he and his henchmen are literally just pushing these people out of the way: [this was posted 5 days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/vEOrmZVWpA) on r/fednews by u/Throwaway918284 : “I’m a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there’s a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms - OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President’s henchmen. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He’s the friendliest “yes man” you’ll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump’s bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests tó all the agencies to collect information on gov’t employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It’s been the one sending those various “test” message you’ve all seen. We think they’re building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road. The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we’ve filed. Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We’re just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants.” Edit: Also this is happening, [per Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senior-us-treasury-official-david-lebryk-leave-agency-soon-wapo-reports-2025-01-31/): “David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave following a clash with allies of billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk over payment system access, the Washington Post reported on Friday. The report, citing three people with knowledge of the matter, said Lebryk and Musk’s surrogates clashed over access to a sensitive system used to pay out more than $6 trillion a year in Social Security and Medicare benefits as well as federal salaries, government contract payments and tax refunds.”

kss2023

they just buy regularly every asset class and HOLD. That is the key. Nicolai Tangen is CIO. He has a good podcast - In good Company

IloveBarryBonds

I don't think Fortune 500 CIO's are standing in a fucking line waiting to jam DeepSeek into their infrastructures. There will be a ton more come out in the coming weeks about their true investment (government funding, etc.) It's all a big overreaction.