Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

MUFG says that clients who implement a dynamic discounting offering enjoy a typical average annualized yield of between 10% and 12% APR, significantly outperforming most internal investment hurdle rates or returns on short-term cash.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

“Our benchmarking data confirms the hazards of clinging to traditional credit-centric revenue models and static, inflexible operating practices,” said BCG’s corporate banking segment global leader, Carsten Baumgärtner, in a statement. . “The only question is which banks will be among them.” ”

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We have lowered the cost of investing, and we have improved the quality of those funds. It forced us to make some tough choices in that time in some big investments, whether we were building out our advice capabilities and building virtual teams to do it, or you know, tough choices in our retirement business.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I, if you are at all interested in concepts of things like portable alpha or return stacking, or just want to know how a quant looks at the world of investing and tries to decide where there are opportunities. Quantitative investing was, was that the plan from the beginning? So it creates a fer 00:24:32 [Speaker Changed] Rate.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

She is one of the few people who combine quantitative investing with behavioral finance. No, I think that that’s the part of it that I find the most interesting is the idea that, you know, a stock price doesn’t really have a, you know, the fair value of an an investment instrument is somewhat arbitrary. Right, right.

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