Planful

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For another, their biggest risk is ensuring safety on the job sites, but they also face fluctuating demand in the construction industry and the risk this puts on their P&L. One recommendation was to establish baselines for the business based on prior experience, or to use external benchmarking information to evaluate performance and risk.

Risk Management 40

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Its GDP is forecast by the International Monetary Fund to decline to 5% in 2024 from 5.3% Additionally, with low demand for credit by the country’s borrowers, authorities reduced the loan prime rate, the benchmark lending rate, including specific relief on mortgages. in 2023, falling to 4.5%

Banking 40

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? And so that’s a really fertile, constructive environment for us to try and generate returns. But will it be volatile enough for it to be fertile for what we do and constructive for what we do? How do you track performance?

Profit and Loss 122

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. They create the benchmark. DAVIS: Yes, exactly.

Investments 52

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

You need to be more constructive because Dow 57% is a fantastic reset.” It seems like an easy one, but there’s a lot of missed benchmarking that goes on. We’re going to make a benchmark much easier. It’s like, listen, you can’t flip on channel 2 and get the weather forecast. NADIG: Correct.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. Last year, you said you’re starting to become more constructive on emerging markets and more balanced, obviously, on the U.S.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 59

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

And the methodology we use is very similar to what we originally constructed at Merrill. Well, most forecasts of secular inflation right now ranged between 2 and 3 percent, which makes a lot of sense because long-term inflation in United States is roughly two and a half. So you can see how the forecasts are there.

Quantitative Analysis 65

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 31, 2023

Forget the forecast. Just in time supply chain can’t deal with it, prices spike on top of a decade long shortfall of home construction. I’m curious as to your thoughts, given everything else you’ve said, that’s been so constructive. The Fed is really going to step up here. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

Economics 59

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