CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Why IAS 38 is Hindering South Africa’s Growth: A Call for Change In an era where innovation, intellectual property (IP), and intangible assets drive economic success, South Africa finds itself at a critical crossroads. They drive productivity, enhance competitiveness, and provide the foundation for long-term economic growth.

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CFO Talks

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This study provides some key insights that are highly relevant to our discussions and podcasts at the CFO Club on how South Africa can improve its treatment of intangible assets to foster economic growth. Impact on Innovation: By not capitalising these assets, companies appear less profitable, which discourages further investment in R&D.

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Global Finance

MARCH 4, 2025

In Europe, it is even more challenging, not only because of the economic and political challenges, but also because the markets have been rather sluggish since 2023. And we have ongoing important collaborations with other companies such as Boehringer Ingelheim and Veloxis Pharmaceuticals.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Directionally, the government continues with its focus on infrastructure spending which is slated to bring the next phase of economic growth. Towards this, the PM Gati Shakti initiative promises economic transformation. The writer is Partner, Price Waterhouse & Co LLP. Views are personal. Financial Express is now on Telegram.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The second entrepreneur starts business B, again with a $60 million investment up front , and that investment is expected to generate $3 million every year in perpetuity. Even with this very simplistic example, there are useful implications.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Strong and trusting relationships allow the parties to share risks and rewards, invest in each other’s capabilities, and collaborate to achieve common goals. Take a pharmaceutical company that had outsourced its facilities management to a supplier for almost 25 years.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This sentiment is echoed by AI Now, a research institute, which asserts that “AI is now firmly positioned as a critical strategic technology for the geopolitical and economic ambitions of nation-states.” Despite this, China continues to invest heavily in government-funded research and development (R&D).

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Stepping back a bit, one claim that climate change advocates have made not just about fossil fuel companies, but about all businesses, is that i nvestors are underestimating the effects that climate change will have on economic systems and on value.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook’s recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products and, in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million and had more than 8,000 employees protecting its store from fraud and abuse, including counterfeiting and IP infringing products. “As In line with Amazon’s past joint litigation, Valentino will receive any proceeds from this suit.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook's recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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CFO Talks

AUGUST 15, 2024

Futuristic Finance: Strategic Thinking for Tomorrow’s CFO In an era where rapid technological advancements and global economic shifts are the norm, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are not just financial stewards but strategic visionaries. This strategic decision not only spread the risks but also opened up new avenues for growth.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 30, 2021

Companies in the region plan to give employees larger rises next year as they recover from the economic fallout of the pandemic and face mounting challenges attracting and retaining employees, according to the latest Salary Budget Planning Report by the company. Average salary increases projected at 3.7% for 2021 and 3.7%

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

David Conrod, what a fascinating career in the world of capital raising and private equity from Guggenheim Partners to FocusPoint Capital, he really has seen just a little bit of everything and is very, very knowledgeable about how that side of the investment world works. HSBC sponsored the team to invest in India and South Asia.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

While Infibeam continues to invest in FinTech future solution[s], the digitalization of the traditional financial sector, especially the global trade finance sector, has opened an opportunity for more secure and encrypted global FinTech platform[s].

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

However, the initial, rapid economic rebound is giving way to a patchier, more tenuous recovery, as the pandemic proves hard to contain, the credit rating agency added. Social issues will attract further prominence in 2021 in public policies, corporate strategies and investment decisions, according to Moody’s.

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Future CFO

APRIL 11, 2021

The IPO markets in Hong Kong and China are well supported to continue to perform vibrantly in the rest of 2021, thanks to the ample liquidity from various monetary and economic easing measures in the world to dissipate the negative impact brought by the ongoing pandemic, said Deloitte China recently when releasing an outlook report. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

Greece has seen its ups and downs over the last decade when it comes to economic strength. The European Investment Fund (EIF) via the JERMIE (Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium Enterprises) initiative allocated around €50 million to four programs between 2013 and 2015. Here is an excerpt of the conversation.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

As someone who teaches corporate finance, I have always tried to pass on the message, especially to those who are headed to finance jobs at companies or investment banks, that of all of the players in an organization, finance people are among the most replaceable, and thus least likely to be key people.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

What government wouldn’t want the infusion of investments and innovation centers that often grease the rails running under cross-border deals? The former was an objectively economic issue. After all, what shopper doesn’t like same-day delivery and biannually upgradeable consumer electronics?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

TruTag offered no immediate comment, but news of the funding round comes not only amid an ongoing push to enable more online pharmaceutical sales and delivery, but also an increasing focus on the global problem of counterfeit goods. In fact, medical items and pharmaceuticals are typically the most-seized products. Counterfeit Trends.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

TruTag offered no immediate comment, but news of the funding round comes not only amid an ongoing push to enable more online pharmaceutical sales and delivery, but also an increasing focus on the global problem of counterfeit goods. In fact, medical items and pharmaceuticals are typically the most-seized products. Counterfeit Trends.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Much more is needed: The Central Bank of the Republic of Argentina (BCRA) still lacks independence from the government, and the ongoing economic and financial changes are part of a radical deregulation and modernization agenda that will take time to implement. Still, the rate of GDP expansion is petering out, from 17% in 2021 to 14.4%

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The emergence of these models reveals that the standard measure of GDP totally ignores the economic value consumers get from all the free stuff. Because of that perk, the economic value of making it easier for Venmo and P2P networks to move money between parties isn’t captured anywhere: It’s a big zero as far as most economists are concerned.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Law in Spirit and Letter In the latter part of the nineteenth century, as the United States was transitioning from an emerging market to a global economic power, its growth was powered by three industries - steel, railroads and oil - all requiring large investments in infrastructure.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 20, 2021

There are other options embedded in the tax code allowing for tax credits and deductions for some investments and expenses, with sectors like real estate being prime beneficiaries. It thus weights bigger companies more than smaller companies. billion in accrual taxes and $15.98 billion in cash taxes.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Things get worse at one of the companies that I’ve invested in. I’m curious how your investing philosophy has evolved over, over the past 30 plus years.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

That’s been estimated as high as $50 billion a year by the Economic Policy Institute, which extrapolated from a 2008 survey of low-wage front-line workers in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. ( Voleon was one of the first hedge funds to use AI as a core of its investing model. Giving him whatever he wants. Previously, he was at D.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Vincent Aita of Cutter Capital on the DNA of Biotech Investing , is below. You don’t go for a doctorate in economics. So what was your first gig in the world of investing? Paramount was a small boutique biotech firm that had investments in both private equity side and public.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 19, 2023

Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Investment Lessons from 400 Years of “Confusion of Confusions” Three Hundred and Thirty-Five years ago, in 1688, Joseph de la Vega wrote, “Confusion de Confusiones”, considered to be worlds first book on stock trading.

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