CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s the latest in a series of recent fiscal and monetary benchmarks received with increasing blitheness. That matters, because rising rates will increase the debt service (interest payments the US government must pay on the outstanding Treasury securities). I counted only a handful of headlines reporting on it.

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Future CFO

MAY 26, 2020

Asked what the priorities of the financial planning and analysis teams were in 2018, three-quarters of CFOs surveyed by FutureCFO between March and April 2020 picked planning, budgeting and forecasting as a key function of the department.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? TROPIN: And you know, we certainly did that on a portion of what we look at as our risk budget. How does this impact global trade and other economic factors? TROPIN: Right. TROPIN: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. When you write a check, you get check float, it takes time for the checks to come back to the hit the treasury account. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary. Your chief economic advisor to the president.

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