CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

That said, to use mean reversion in analysis or investing, you need to know what these averages are, either over time or across companies, and data can help in that pursuit. . Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

The dividend principle, which is the focus of this post is built on a very simple principle, which is that if a company is unable to find investments that make returns that meet its hurdle rate thresholds, it should return cash back to the owners in that business.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Financial institutions can better understand the risk profiles of small suppliers by leveraging alternative data and machine learning, thus expanding access to financing. It requires accurate data, robust technology, and thorough risk assessment, crucial to ensuring the creditworthiness of suppliers at all levels.

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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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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

That said, to use mean reversion in analysis or investing, you need to know what these averages are, either over time or across companies, and data can help in that pursuit. Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. EV/EBIT and EV/EBITDA 4. High-Low Price Risk Measure 5.

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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. BUCKLEY: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. You can imagine, you give a bearish message at a bullish investment conference, and no one listens to you.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Debt's place in business To understand debt's role in a business, I will start with a big picture perspective, where you break a business down into assets-in-place, i.e., the value of investments it has already made and growth assets, the value of investments you expect it to make in the future. Do companies optimize financing mix?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And I’d been there just over two years.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The first part of the statement, i.e., that borrowing money increases the expected return on equity in an investment, is true, for the most part, since you have to contribute less equity to get the deal done, and the net income you generate, even after interest payments, will be a higher percentage of the equity invested.

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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? Let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? 00:26:19 [Speaker Changed] It, it’s, it’s usually it is aggressive shorts from leveraged funds on s and p futures.

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