Global Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Mansur announced plans to hike the benchmark rate by 50 basis points to 9%, and stated that rates would hit 10% within the coming months. In September, the PBoC cut its benchmark seven-day interest rate by 20 basis points to 1.5% Benchmark rates are expected to remain unchanged at 3%. Mansur to be central bank governor.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Amazon now has Amazon Care , a mobile app that connects consumers with healthcare providers online and via walk-in clinics, initially in the Greater Seattle area and more recently in neighborhoods near its warehouse facilities for its employees. More than one-third — 56 million — Prime members stream video and music content via Amazon.

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E78 Partners

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With patient acquisition costs continuing to rise in today’s competitive healthcare environment, retaining existing patients is crucial for sustainable growth. Industry Trend Alignment: With increasing pressure on margins in the healthcare industry, understanding the revenue generated per procedure is essential.

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CFO Leadership

APRIL 10, 2023

For companies asking employees to travel, a duty of care applies to practices, policies, business decisions, and even the healthcare that employers extend to employees in their working environment and outside the office.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 25, 2022

Employers in Singapore fell below global benchmarks when it comes to supporting staff during the pandemic, said Mercer March Benefits recently. A similar number of respondents (42%) feel that quality mental healthcare, including counselling, therapy or medication, were difficult to find and access.

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How does one help clients understand their benchmarking? An organization is comparable to another within the same industry, and therefore they use each other to gauge success when it comes to meeting KPI goals and industry benchmarks. Traditionally, the experience goes as such.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

10 Key Performance Indicators For Financial Advisory Firms To Compare With Industry Benchmarking Studies – Industry benchmarking studies can be a valuable tool for advisory firm owners to make better business decisions. The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business.

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E78 Partners

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With patient acquisition costs continuing to rise in today’s competitive healthcare environment, retaining existing patients is crucial for sustainable growth. Industry Trend Alignment: With increasing pressure on margins in the healthcare industry, understanding the revenue generated per procedure is essential.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

-based Modern Treasury has announced a $38 million investment round led by Altimeter Capital, while existing investors Benchmark and Y Combinator also participated.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

But within three months, the unit had learned and had grown enough to attain that benchmark and then some — earning it additional challenging assignments, each of which required the soldiers to learn new techniques and technologies. Things are changing in healthcare, making it a ripe and exciting place to grow, said Hall.

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The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

For instance, a healthcare solutions company might have a long-term strategy to introduce a new telemedicine platform. To reach that objective, the company's development team might set an operational benchmark of developing a prototype of the platform for beta testing within six months.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Consumers are approaching healthcare differently since mid-March, with many turning to telehealth services or ordering their medications online to avoid risky in-person trips to crowded medical facilities. How NowRx Is Engineering Prescription Privacy During The Pandemic.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A second guess would have been a healthcare company. And right now, you look back over 10 years, our active funds, 94 percent are outperforming their competitive group averages, 68 percent are outperforming their benchmarks. I mean, really, no one knows who Vanguard is. So my friends really thought Vanguard was an airline.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

SALISBURY: Well, so taking each of these, our growth equity fund really focuses on a couple of different segments, enterprise software, fintech, healthcare and consumer. Tell us about those funds and what they do and how does each slot into a client solution? Those are kind of like the power rallies in terms of industries that they focus on.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You’re in a really tricky position for funding new investments, for funding, you know, retirement benefits, healthcare benefits, the like. Interestingly enough, there’s only, you know, a handful of validators actually benchmark themselves to real returns. So you may see portfolios change as a result of, of benchmarking.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. And big consumer and healthcare. 00:43:55 [Speaker Changed] I, I don’t, I don’t imagine that anyone’s gonna listen to a couple of dozen podcasts and suddenly begin to outperform the benchmark. a year, way over both. It’s in the top 1% of its peers. Taken, gonna read 10 Ks.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And we can then benchmark those answers against the 3,000 families, or the 2,500 other families, that are in the research and say, “At this level, your trust and communication look really solid, and there’s an opportunity here to improve alignment of values and mission.”

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And now we have a number of different hedge funds, some we have in the macro, we have multi-Strat, we have point hedge funds with in technology in the healthcare field. 00:15:29 [Speaker Changed] That’s your benchmark, correct? We’re gonna use different metrics in healthcare versus tech versus consumer and FinTech.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

percent and diversification across sectors like healthcare, even infotech is in there because — and you have some infotech companies that are now durable demand, that’s the part of the market where from an equity standpoint we’re — we’re very comfortable maintaining that exposure. How are they set-up? What is their staffing?

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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. Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. There is alpha. Can you manage that through downturns?

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

It also focuses on employee empowerment and well-being through a range of tools, including savings, healthcare, sick leave and faster payment services. In total, the company secured $36 million in the round, led by a range of backers, including Sozo Ventures, Accel and Benchmark. Negotiatus.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

But you’re seeing that in specialty industrial managers, health — healthcare managers. CONROD: I — I think the — in this low interest rate environment people are looking for yield and income, and how do they — they have a — they have a benchmark. RITHOLTZ: And there’s a lot of software involved in that. CONROD: Yeah, correct.

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Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Benchmarking and KPI tracking across the organization to stay on course. The tool has several custom reporting features, including providing scorecards and benchmarking with external data. Some of the industries that Centage caters to are finance and insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and software. Final thoughts on OnPlan.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Groceries, healthcare, and other expenses are still inflating, hurting many Americans’ wallets. Over his 32-year tenure, the fund has beaten 100% of peers, and outperformed the Russell 2000 benchmark by 3.49% annually, and has more than doubled the performance of the S&P 500.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

00:18:13 [Speaker Changed] When markets are going up, the benchmark is either an index like the s and p 500 or you know, someone you know that’s making even more money than you are. But it’s amazing how quickly the benchmark turns into cash or a positive return when markets are going down.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Founded in 2009, and with Alphabet as its only funder, Google Ventures had over $10 billion in invested, in 2024, in more than 400 technology startups, spread across multiple businesses including healthcare, the life sciences and even financial services.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The Conversation ) see also Fraud and Fakery at the Countrys Largest Chain of Methadone Clinics : Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who arent addicted to opioids, a Times investigation found. ( Innovation and Tech Active ETF , just began trading.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

And it’s gotten ver like the average active fund has gotten closer and closer to the benchmark over the last five years. And if you look at the s and p today, 50% of it is asset light, innovation oriented healthcare and tech. 00:38:37 [Speaker Changed] Bill Miller says active management is being destroyed by closet indexers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

The market is anticipating a cut in the benchmark interest rate later this month. The healthcare sector gained 35,000 jobs, and 24,000 were added by the transportation and warehousing sector. economy added 224,000 jobs in June, which is the best gain since the start of the year, and the unemployment rate is near a 50-year low.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Irrelevant Investor ) • The Coronavirus (Still) Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings :The Covid-19 pandemic is not a state of mind—and telling us not to panic isn’t healthcare. ( Orbis deploys a unique fee arrangement , where they are only paid a fee when they outperform their benchmark and refund fees to clients when they underperform.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. We went out, we got Shahir hired, you know, but then you’ve gotta go out and hire people in the healthcare space. 00:16:40 So there was a way to judge yourself. Did you actually outperform the market? Like Shahir is your person.

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