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How to mitigate insolvency risk

Future CFO

Can you go to the capital markets or turn to your line of credit to raise money if need be? This is part of the economic climate in which they operate and can impact customer insolvency. Shorten your supply chains and avoid concentration in one geographic region. Operating margins: Are they becoming thinner?

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

Its index and its benchmark. We hear a lot about Jeremy Grantham thoughts on markets, but much less on how the firm is managed, how this growth came about and the culture as a business. Is that what leads to the lower downside in, in a market dislocation, if you’re buying it right, there’s less room to fall, right?

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Transcript: Marta Norton

Barry Ritholtz

So I leave the Bureau of Labor Statistics and I move into economic consulting. So litigation around unfair competition or the like, a company would pull in our expert witness and I was part of the team to put together the case to explain the market size or the market share or what have you. That’s very funny.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

Arbitrage pricing : Arbitrage refers to the possibility that you can create risk-free positions by combining holdings in different securities, and the benchmark used to judge whether these positions are value-creating becomes the risk-free rate.

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

CFO News Room

navigate a volatile market environment (in both stocks and bonds – oof!) 10 Key Performance Indicators For Financial Advisory Firms To Compare With Industry Benchmarking Studies – Industry benchmarking studies can be a valuable tool for advisory firm owners to make better business decisions.

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Masters in Business: The Emerging Manager Playbook

Barry Ritholtz

Not to be like the Grim Reaper, but the reality is, if you’re not a multi manager and you’re not aggressively managing market risk, then you fall into the category of a long, short single manager that probably takes concentrated, more concentrated directional risk. They have economics. Mike is one of them.

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

Barry Ritholtz

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. The market microstructure has changed. When do you own growth? When do you own equity?