CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Investment Implications: Asset Classes, Geographies and Companies. The Lead In. The Market Reaction.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2020

Sujith Narayanan and Sumit Gwalani, both co-founders of Google Pay India — formerly called Google Tez — said the seed funding brings the neo-bank startup epiFi to a valuation of roughly $50 million. They want insurance, lending, investment opportunities and multiple products,” said Narayanan, epiFi CEO.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. In 2018, it added a Paytm Money , for investment and wealth management, and in 2019, it launched a Paytm for Business app for merchants to track payments.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. Really fascinating guy.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

The best performing industry group is auto & truck, but those results are skewed upwards, with one big winner (Tesla) accounting for a large portion of the increase in market capitalization in the sector. trillion in the first six months of 2023, 97.2% trillion increase in value for all US equities.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. Joel Tillinghast : Well, okay, G, when he was six, my grandfather, who was a bookkeeper accountant at a textile mill died and my grandmother was a second string violin at the Providence Symphony Orchestra, which didn’t pay well then, and I suspect didn’t pay well now.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Ukraine is also primarily a natural resource producer, especially iron ore, albeit on a smaller scale.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. I got an internship at a investment fund in Baltimore, and this was 2002 at the time. With no further ado my conversation with Woodline partners, Mike Rockefeller.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Put simply, I possess no exclusivity here, and staying consistent with my thesis, I don't expect to expect to make money by investing based upon this data. So, why bother? You would like those answers now, but stay tuned to the rest of my data updates and the data will speak for itself.)

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab Chief Investment Strategist , is below. She is the chief investment strategist and member of the firm’s Investment Committee at Schwab. She is as much in the mix, in the thick of what’s going on in the world of investing as anybody.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. While the US remains the largest market, geographically, Asia is the center of growth, with China leading the way.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Marta Norton, Morningstar Investment Management , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ, BLOOMBERG RADIO HOST: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Marta Norton is the Chief Investment Officer for Morningstar Investment Management. What makes a good investment strategy?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. John was one of our managers that we had, you know, our clients invest in.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Facebook Wants Access to User Bank Accounts. Facebook has reportedly had conversations with banks about giving Messenger access to user bank accounts. And never mind that consumers aren’t sitting on hold for hours these days with the bank waiting to get updated information on transactions and account balances.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

I found this to be really a fascinating conversation about approaching the world of investing from a different angle. So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The performance at the fund flagged, which sort of set him back hunting for what was going wrong with his style of value investing. And he came to some really fascinating conclusions, which led him to change how they approached investing. Go look at the idea, go figure it out, tell me if we should invest in it.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast I have an extra special guest, Luis Berruga has a fascinating career as both a tech wizard and investment banker before becoming CEO of Global X ETFs. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

But we want it on the calendar so that we keep clients and ourselves accountable so that we make sure that those meetings actually do happen. So, last year, valuations were high, interest rates were low. They were more on the relationship side, client-facing, whereas I was getting my CFA charter and was more on the investment side.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When you write a check, you get check float, it takes time for the checks to come back to the hit the treasury account. I think there are definitely commercial banks that are gonna have trouble due to their concentrated commercial office building portfolio. And I have to say, I was so naive about investing at that time.

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