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Data Update 7 for 2025: The End Game in Business!

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will focus on how companies around the world, and in different sectors, performed on their end game of delivering profits, by first focusing on profitability differences across businesses, then converting profitability into returns, and comparing these returns to the hurdle rates that I talked about in my last data update post.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Tell us a little bit about what the Goldman Sachs asset and wealth management business is like. We didn’t really have to worry about marketing or advertising, didn’t spend time on podcasts or TV. ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So let me throw a curveball at you. We love it. What do they focus on?