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Rick Wurster

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
222 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

And in terms of where we're finding them, it's interesting.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

I went to our marketing department and said, hey, I don't see enough about our advertising to young people.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

And they said, Rick, it's because you're not cool and in the places where young people go.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

It hurt a little, but we're the number one.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

followed financial services company on YouTube.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

We're all over TikTok.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

We're on all these different places where young people are, and they're attracted to the breadth of the Schwab value proposition and how different it is than other offers they see in the market.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

Well, I think prediction markets started out with financial services companies with the best of intentions.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

They wanted their investors to be able to bet on what was going to happen with the inflation report, what's going to happen with the job report, or what the Fed's going to do.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

And they realized that there's not a lot of volume and interest in those events in the general public, and that there's already ways in financial markets to invest around those activities.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

And then the election happened.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

And the volume in prediction markets skyrocketed.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

And these companies got a windfall of money.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

And then they said to themselves, a presidential election only comes one out of every four years.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

How do we generate this level of interest on more of an ongoing basis so we can see this windfall more regularly?

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

And then they migrated from things that were tangentially related to financial markets to pure sports gambling.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

Because every Saturday and Sunday, there's lots of activities that the nation cares about.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

And now I think we're in a world where what's driving all the volume in prediction markets is pure sports gambling.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

That's something we've got to keep an eye on.

Bloomberg Talks
President & CEO of Charles Schwab Talks Advisor Services

We're not actively considering it.