Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Rise of Intangibles While the debate about intangibles, and how best to value them, is relatively recent, it is unquestionable that intangibles have been a part of valuation, and the investment process, through history. With that said, it is clear that the debate about intangibles has become more intense in the last two decades.

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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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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business. Some of that blowback can be traced to an expensive bet made by the latter on streaming, reorganizing the company around Disney+, and investing billions into streaming content, trying to attract new customers.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

What were your early career plans? WEINSTEIN: Sometimes like I said in terms of moving a battleship forward it’s just making sure that they have the best investment professionals for their existing strategies. But before we get there, let’s delve a little bit into your background, which I find kind of intriguing.

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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. And the division that I was in was below plan. Things get worse at one of the companies that I’ve invested in. Tell us about that. That was real money.

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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

APRIL 11, 2023

What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? There are no Renaissance people left on Wall Street, and investing people who can talk about drama and talk about numbers at the same time. RITHOLTZ: And then we could talk about stock option plans and what is and isn’t above the line deducted.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

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