Financials: Square’s New CFO and Our Favorite Investing Books for 2019
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Square (NYSE: SQ) recently hired a new CFO, eliminating the uncertainty that had been swirling since Sarah Friar stepped down in late 2018, so Industry Focus: Financials host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP give their takes on the news. Plus, we’ll share our favorite investing books for the new year and discuss a classic portfolio allocation debate. All this and more on this week’s episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to LinkedIn for supporting this episode of Industry Focus. |
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| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:21.0 | It's Monday January 7th. I'm your host |
| 0:23.0 | Jason Moser and joining me in the studio via Skype first show of the new year my |
| 0:28.5 | guy certified financial planner Matt Frankel. Matt has everything going. |
| 0:34.0 | It's just great a good weekend of football behind us. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm going to say, your eagle's shirt doesn't lead much to the imagination as to who you were pulling |
| 0:40.0 | for yesterday, huh? |
| 0:41.0 | So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, South Jersey, born and raised, we're pretty much Philly. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, that was a nail-bitter, man, a nail-bitter for sure, but they're moving on, so that's |
| 0:50.0 | good to see. |
| 0:52.0 | Today, on today's show, we're going to dive into Twitter to answer a |
| 0:54.5 | couple of listener questions regarding portfolio allocation, some book |
| 0:58.4 | recommendations, as always we'll have one to watch, but first Matt there was some news that came out late |
| 1:04.0 | last week that seemed relatively relevant to our universe here and it looks like |
| 1:10.1 | Square has a new CFO in town. Miss Amrita Ahuja, who is currently the CFO of video game developer Blizzard |
| 1:19.5 | Entertainment and yes that's Blizzard of Activision Blizzard is going to be coming in and taking |
| 1:25.0 | over the reins there at Square and I tell you after reading a little bit about |
| 1:29.1 | her work history and a nice little Twitter thread she had out there regarding her family |
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