Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet. Data Update 4 for 2025: Interest Rates, Inflation and Central Banks!

Hurdle Rate 72

Hurdle Rate Accounting Investments Economics 72

CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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Marketing Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting 130

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Measuring Profitability The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights.

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Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting Entertainment 98

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Or should I have the advisors not worry about the workflows, communicate with their CSA the way that they prefer to communicate with the CSA, and then have the CSA spend the time putting the workflow together, and then let the advisor go on to the next client and give that very high-level customer service that are clients are very used to having?

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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. So you’ve got, you’ve got a modeling hurdle rate that you need to figure out when you’re adding diversifiers.

Leverage 59

Leverage Investments Marketing Math 59

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So I wanted to challenge myself, improve my communication skills, you know, through, through the writing process. And 00:06:38 [Speaker Changed] Door number one was much better than door number three in, in the circumstances. When we talk about breadth, we’re talking about the numbers of advancers versus decliners.

Marketing 64

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 64