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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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He advertised it as broken, set the starting bid at $1.00 million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. Margins have taken a hit at the hands of investments in marketing, seller services and the core product to keep sellers on board, new buyers coming and existing ones spending. That was down from 23.8

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. But, with the rise of index funds and the commoditization of investment advice, generating sufficient investment ‘alpha’ to justify a fee has become more challenging for advisors.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

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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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

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101 Things That Advisors Actually DO To Add Value (Beyond Just Allocating A Portfolio) – Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. Financial Planning.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. 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. a year since 1989.

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10 Friday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My Paraskevidekatriaphobia morning train WFH reads: • The Excitement, Danger, and Unknown of Small-Cap Investing’s Comeback : SouthernSun Asset Management has waited years for a market as promising as this one for its little-known stocks.( This is doubly important because I think we all underestimate how common business failure really is.