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How Does Scenario Planning Work in FP&A Activities?

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It involves researching and collecting data on current trends in various domains such as technology, demographics, economics, politics, and social factors. This approach provides a more data-driven and quantitative perspective on the future but may overlook discontinuities or unexpected events.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

When I was at GMO, we — a colleague and I ran a sort of quantitative analysis of speculative bubbles and we crunched, produced my system date 10,000 years of data of various commodity markets, and real estate markets, and stock markets around the world. All our economic actions are taking place across time. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

And so, you know, it was a very interesting time to begin, which I did as an account executive at Shearson. RITHOLTZ: You guys do everything from quantitative analysis to macro. How do you contextualize the economic data and the broad stamp recession when you’re thinking about managing risk? TROPIN: Yeah.