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CFOs: What’d happen when CEOs stay in hospitals?

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Highlights of findings Based on data of nearly 13,000 Danish SMEs between 1996 and 2012, Bennedsen and his co-authors find that five-to-seven day hospitalisations sent firm profitability tumbling by 7% in the year of illness, the business school noted. . However, the degree of the dip varied depending on a number of attributes.

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Leading with Purpose: Dr. Lawrence Nsibandze on Managing Public Service Pensions and Strategic Finance

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It’s clear that African CFOs are highly focused on education and development, perhaps because there’s so much investment and growth happening in Africa. In terms of my education, I hold a BCom in Accounting from the University of Eswatini and a postgraduate diploma from the University of South Africa (UNISA).

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APAC capital markets during the COVID-19 crisis

Future CFO

We expect Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) to play an important and increasing role in supporting lenders in mitigating risk, overcoming concentration issues and improving capital adequacy. Reality is showing us that profitability is no longer a target, and in the absence of such, how can we be assured of liquidity.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. Furthermore, many of these clients might be saving for children’s education (or still have student loans themselves!), He has an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from the University of Virginia.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, while you can see that concentration in markets, and sales, and trading, once I started really working with our private bank in a meaningful way, I was then able to lead teams of investment counselors and investors. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. RITHOLTZ: Sure. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

If you do assume that markets will price away this excess profit, you then have the basis for the models that are used to value options and other derivative assets. Not only was this an indication of how dollar-centric much of finance education used to be, but also of how much faith there was that the US treasury was default-free.