Future CFO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Cash flow and liquidity problems: Are your fixed costs or interest payments creeping up, or do you have a high number or amount of customer overdue payments? 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.

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Profit and Loss Concentration Benchmarking Invoicing 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). Executive Summary.

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Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So there are a number of us heading in out of college into the BLS. So I leave the Bureau of Labor Statistics and I move into economic consulting. NORTON: Within Morningstar Investment Management, we are very much high conviction investors probably — RITHOLTZ: Meaning concentrated portfolio? That’s very funny.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Benchmarking Marketing 52

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

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.

Investments 80

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 80

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 7, 2023

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. They have a pathway to be APM.

Investments 108

Investments Concentration Profit and Loss Economics 108

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

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. How do you crunch the numbers on that, and where do you come out on small cap and value?

Investments 65

Investments Marketing Economics Risk Management 65

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.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Investments Marketing Treasury 52