Future CFO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Declining profitability: For example, are your sales lower or your cost of goods sold higher? Poor interest coverage ratio: This shows operating profits may not be able to cover interest expenses. Review the credit terms you extend to customers and suppliers, and benchmark your trade terms against the rest of your industry.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Concentration Benchmarking Invoicing 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

The latest news is that the $100 billion fund’s holdings (where filings indicate more than $70 billion in committed/deployed capital) are encountering any number of operational challenges. There’s an old business maxim that goes something like this: You cannot cut your way to profitability. billion loss), more bumps may lie ahead.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Construction Startups Investments 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Combined with growing advisor (and consumer) interest in comprehensive financial planning services, the number of ways advisors can add value for their clients has expanded greatly. Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Credit unions possess vast troves of personal information such as credit card data and Social Security numbers that could devastate members if leaked. The leaked data did not include passwords, codes or identification questions, but did expose names, addresses, birthdates, social insurance numbers and information about transaction habits.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Securities Benchmarking Nonprofit 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But when you look at emerging markets and when you look at value, the opportunity for alpha is much, much greater than it is in traditional large cap growth stocks in the US And a lot of managers in that space actually beat their benchmark. So during my time there, I was probably employee number four or five. Absolutely.

Investments 59

Investments Economics Marketing Benchmarking 59

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 3, 2022

We also have a number of articles on investments: How launching an ETF can create efficiencies for advisors and their clients alike. Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. He can be reached at [email protected]. Read more of Adam’s articles here.

Communication 130

Communication Investments Planning Marketing 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Disclosing whether or not the reinvestment of dividends or other earnings is reflected, along with the possibility of loss, should be included in nearly all advertisements, including gross/net performance. If a presentation of gross performance does not reflect the deduction of transaction fees and expenses.

Advertising 130

Advertising Marketing Communication Compliance 130

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

Arbitrage pricing : Arbitrage refers to the possibility that you can create risk-free positions by combining holdings in different securities, and the benchmark used to judge whether these positions are value-creating becomes the risk-free rate. In a reflection of the times, there have been two developments.

Investments 98

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 98

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

Imagine my surprise when the manager told me, “It’s not our problem, and I don’t want to fix this because it hurts my store’s profitability.”. Our clients improved their loss ratios by 1.9 PYMNTS: Can you give me some personnel growth numbers? PYMNTS: What has been the biggest hurdle? How did the company overcome?

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Benchmarking Education Technology 40

Planful

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This way, the FP&A system functions as a single source of truth housing all of the most up-to-date data, and the finance team doesn’t have to lose time at the end of each month culling and consolidating numbers from across the business. Reducing the length of the month-end close in any meaningful way depends on automation.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Profit and Loss Benchmarking 40

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. So obviously, we’re seeing some relief in the commodity sector, but more broadly it’s, you know, whether or not how quickly are we going to see that number come down. So derivatives were a part where I was very intimidated.

Investments 119

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 119

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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. And you know, just simple things like, hey, the value of tax loss harvesting, how do you make that apparent to people? Number one, you put it back into the business.

Leadership 111

Leadership Investments Profit and Loss Technology 111

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 7, 2023

When you’re down 40 percent on average, it’s a huge loss to the industry. More than 50 percent of total losses in two in 2022 came from long short equity funds and half of hedge fund liquidations came from long short equity funds. They appreciate you cutting your losses. First, focus on putting up the numbers.

Investments 110

Investments Concentration Profit and Loss Economics 110

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Their benchmarks were down. And so there was a number of less liquid markets that made for quite wide spreads. And so there was certainly a number of different movements, but there was certainly downside of these things. And you know, I think ultimately there was a number of opportunities that came out.

Investments 59

Investments Numbers Marketing Leverage 59

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And the advice that he gave to David Einhorn about it that helped lead Einhorn to start really kicking the benchmark’s butt again for the past couple of years. So the actual source of profitability in that trade is not the level of the vix, but the shape of the vol surface. It would go up, it should go up. This was a giant win.

Concentration 69

Concentration Valuation Marketing Investments 69

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. I — I couldn’t believe the numbers. And this is part of the story I was so fascinated with was why would someone set-up a company where they deliberately turn over all the future profits to the — to the people?

Profit and Loss 69

Profit and Loss Marketing Investments Benchmarking 69

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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Numbers Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: You had 1987, you had 1997, you had 1998 there were a number of really substantial. Because obviously fundamental underpinning to the secular bull market, you know, number one is the fact that households are in better financial conditions than they have been since, you know, the GFC. RITHOLTZ: Right. Let me explain.

Marketing 52

Marketing Construction Valuation Investments 52

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. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch.

Benchmarking 105

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 105

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

Profit and Loss 122

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 122

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

Profit and Loss 69

Profit and Loss Valuation Forecasting Investments 69

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As companies mature, with business models delivering profits and reinvestment needs declining, it is not surprising the companies look outward, with acquisitions often entering the equation.

Investments 68

Investments Profit and Loss Benchmarking Accounting 68

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 14, 2025

They are a multi-manager, multi-strategy hedge fund that has put up some pretty impressive numbers. And even to this day, I think in terms of like sheer number count, the vast majority of hedge funds are really stock picking hedge funds, long, 00:18:12 [Speaker Changed] Short 11,000 hedge funds out there today. Half is a giant number.

Investments 59

Investments Finance Profit and Loss Numbers 59

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

00:11:35 [Speaker Changed] I mean, I couldn’t wish for better shareholding group because with AEOs we got a, a tremendous powerhouse behind us, a very financially profitable organization. And when you’re doing it without it, without it, it the form it is quite a good benchmark. How do you cope with that loss of talent?

Investments 59

Investments Profit and Loss Numbers Entertainment 59

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Honest back testing, really looking at the numbers versus exaggerating returns and, and making up the claim that something’s live when it’s not. 12, 14 even that not a lot of numbers. If I have a, a bond benchmark and 40% of that is treasuries, how am I supposed to, what am I supposed to do with all that dead asset?

Leverage 59

Leverage Investments Marketing Math 59

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. ’cause L-I-B-O-R was probably the most important number, certainly in credit, maybe in all of finance. Number one, the economy’s a lot stronger than they thought it was gonna be. You have a big repo market.

Treasury 59

Treasury Marketing Banking Economics 59

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? 00:16:40 So there was a way to judge yourself. That’s unbelievable.

Marketing 112

Marketing Banking Treasury Profit and Loss 112

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 31, 2023

And in my career, I feel like the Canadian, they produce a large number of economists. I mean, when we had that first employment number that sort of knocked the lights on, everyone was kind of surprised because we were all keying off the initial claims data, right? It’s a giant number. DUTTA: — and he still is.

Economics 59

Economics Marketing Manufacturing Profit and Loss 59