Author: John Ludlow

6 posts written by John Ludlow

Movie Lines and Song Lyrics

April 3, 2013

Content provided by John Ludlow, CLS Chief Operations Officer Like many of you, I love to watch movies and listen to music. For me it’s not just about the plot and acting in a movie or the beat to the music. Oh, I love a good story line and aggressive music beat but I also…

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Facing My Fears

March 5, 2013

Content Provided by John Ludlow, CLS Chief Operations Officer You would never know it by looking at me, but I’m actually pretty old. Not that I’m going to tell you exactly how old but we all know from my first blog post that I have a married daughter. I also have two sons, Zack and…

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Best.Service.Ever

February 6, 2013

Back in 2004 I was fortunate to take a tour of various cities and countries throughout the Asian continent. The trip included visits to the Tokyo tower, temples of Bangkok, night markets of Hong Kong, Forbidden City of Beijing, and the Great Wall of China. In all, our group of two dozen or so Master’s…

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Lessons From New York

January 3, 2013

Last month our Institutional Trading Director, Ritchie Brown, and I attended an ETF trading conference at the New York Stock Exchange. CLS focuses specifically on ETF investing, so we were excited to learn more about how to improve our trading methods. We were also looking forward to meeting our business partners, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch…

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The Runner

October 30, 2012

Each year in October, hundreds of running teams from all over the Midwest gather to participate in the annual Market to Market relay. Teams of six to eight runners start the race in Omaha and run through 78 miles of trails, streets, gravel, sidewalks, and cornfields, eventually finishing in Lincoln. This year, several CLS employees…

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How a Chief Operations Officer Survived the Most Inefficient Wedding Ever

August 22, 2012

I knew I was in trouble when my 19 year old daughter, Teaghan, called home one day from her apartment in Utah and said something along the lines of, “You know, like, me and Tyler are starting to get pretty serious. Like, I think I’m pretty sure we are going to, like, get engaged soon…

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