CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s the latest in a series of recent fiscal and monetary benchmarks received with increasing blitheness. That matters, because rising rates will increase the debt service (interest payments the US government must pay on the outstanding Treasury securities). I counted only a handful of headlines reporting on it.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

In the bond market, the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield declined to 1.903%, according to Tradeweb. Valuations of Hong Kong-listed stocks are now quite reasonable, Mr. Ru said, adding that he doesn’t expect China’s internet sector to be hit with major regulatory changes this year. . Yields and prices move inversely.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It’s Also Deeply Flawed : The designers of other popular indexes don’t charge exchange-listing fees to be included in their benchmark. Now that their son stands accused of one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history, they’re scrambling for legal escape routes. ( New Yorker ) • The Nasdaq 100 Is Wildly Popular.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

The digital transformation of corporate treasury is not a destination; it’s a journey. Against that backdrop, JPMorgan is already collaborating with multiple treasury management systems to create a “plug and play” banking experience inside its own offerings, he told Webster. “And

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

“Word that 273,000 jobs were added indicates that the job market was in a good place in mid-February, with many employers managing to forge ahead despite worker shortages in some sectors and regions,” said Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst for Bankrate.com. The benchmark 10-year U.S. and have gained 3 percent over the past year.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Fed is Dead : Its interest rate hikes are hurting consumers and workers while bypassing the main source of inflation ( Robert Reich ) see also Unpredictable 10-Year Treasury Yield Poses Puzzle for Investors, Fed : Recent declines in critical borrowing benchmark have come despite expectations for higher short-term interest rates.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Treasuries prices were mixed. A disappointing economic report for August, weak retail sales and industrial production and slower job growth are expected to prevent the Fed from increasing interest rates at least until December. The core CPI increased 2.3 percent in the 12 months through August after rising 2.2

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

The Treasury yields also rose, and, for example, the yield on the 10-Year stood at just under 80 basis points, up from sub 50 basis point nadirs earlier in the week. The FinTechs take in capital, the capital makes loans, which, though well above benchmark rates, is below credit card rates. The name of the game here, too, is spread.

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Future CFO

MAY 26, 2020

Against the backdrop of economic and legal implications of non-compliance, companies are mandating self-isolation and work from home. At AFP, we help finance and treasury professionals be better at the job they have and prepare for the future they want.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Trackers use a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark an ever-changing landscape. This report looked at what treasury leaders and financial executives must know about the shifting dynamics of digital commerce — and how they can make the most of these emerging opportunities. Buy Now, Pay Later.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

stocks (which have a lengthy track record of outperforming inflation over long time horizons) and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS). The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. They create the benchmark. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark? So, our active team has been successful outperforming their benchmarks.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

There’s very few, I would argue probably no consistent predictors of, of any sort of economic or market cyclicality. Most clients, whether they’re individuals or institutions, have some sort of benchmark, a policy portfolio, some strategic asset allocation that they start with. It’s a bit of a mouthful.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

During 2022, the US treasury did not default, but an investor in a 10-year US treasury bond would have earned a return of -18% on his or her investment, as bond prices dropped. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).

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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. RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. There is alpha. Can you manage that through downturns?

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Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

The move aligns UOB, which also won the Best Bank in Singapore, with ASEAN’s rise as an economic powerhouse, rapidly transformed via megatrends like supply chain diversification, digitalization and investments in net-zero transitions and a rising middle class. Its expansion into the region via the $5 billion Singapore dollars (about $3.7

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. The s and p 500 has underperformed his fund by 3.7% a year since 1989. Much better.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Global economic growth will continue expanding this year and hold steady next year, with some weakness in the United States and China and some rebounding in the euro area, according to global forecasts. According to the July World Economic Outlook Update published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), global growth will likely be 3.2%

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Last August, the company added, it surpassed another benchmark of providing an average of $1 million a day for small businesses. $30 Revenues are on the rise for Canadian firms, but uncertainty about the global economic climate has financial managers in this market focusing on domestic operations, the report also found.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? How do you contextualize the economic data and the broad stamp recession when you’re thinking about managing risk? How does this impact global trade and other economic factors?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. When you write a check, you get check float, it takes time for the checks to come back to the hit the treasury account. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

And it covers the spectrum of fixed income from treasuries here to high yield there, and everything in between. They take a benchmark in that case, the aggregate index is by bar the, the most common one used. Let, let’s allow you to do more and have a wider degree of risk and off benchmark in your sector.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And economic indicators, like the unemployment rate or the claims data, and you know, we actually did some scenario analysis around that recently, just talking about, Hey, what happens if the employment rate rises versus falls? What do you see in, in treasuries and the fixed income half of the portfolio?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So whether you’re trying to get managed futures from an active manager or, you know, two months Treasuries, T bills, like the whole spectrum is now available in lose to 3,000 ETFs we are trading here in the U.S. NADIG: Well, I mean, there’s like TLT, with the big Treasury funds, LQD and HYG. RITHOLTZ: Beat the 10-year.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary. Your chief economic advisor to the president.

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