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How to mitigate insolvency risk

Future CFO

Declining profitability: For example, are your sales lower or your cost of goods sold higher? Poor interest coverage ratio: This shows operating profits may not be able to cover interest expenses. This is part of the economic climate in which they operate and can impact customer insolvency. Weakened balance sheet.

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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. But what if government securities are viewed as risky?

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

CFO News Room

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business. He has an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from the University of Virginia.

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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. Maverick 14 billion.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. You have a background, undergraduate, your economics degree from Notre Dame, but you were dual-major Spanish language and Literature degree, how useful was that in Latin America?

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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. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. So it leads to the question, what’s the secret to this longstanding outperformance against all benchmarks and, and all passive measures?

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.