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At The Money: Concentrated Portfolios

Barry Ritholtz

APPLE EMBED At The Money: Concentrated Portfolios: Andrew Slimmon, Morgan Stanley (May 8, 2024) Are your expensive active mutual funds and ETFs actually active? AndrewToday, we discuss the advantages of concentrated portfolios. AndrewToday, we discuss the advantages of concentrated portfolios. Let’s start with the basics.

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Tales from the Dark Side

Barry Ritholtz

What he saw stunned him: The previous broker outsourced much of his asset management to third-party managers; Digging into the specifics he was gobsmacked by the details: Sub-$1m accounts charged 1.25% for a high turnover, actively managed SMA which lagged its benchmark by a few 100 basis points. First Rule of Running Other Peoples’ Money?

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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? Shorten your supply chains and avoid concentration in one geographic region. Review the credit terms you extend to customers and suppliers, and benchmark your trade terms against the rest of your industry.

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10 KPIs to Track Business Performance

The Finance Weekly

They are widely used in , strategic planning and reporting to guide investment decisions. This profit can be utilized for activities such as marketing campaigns, dividend payouts, and non-fixed costs. This measure aids in predicting future profits and establishing profitability goals and benchmarks.

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Milestones in strategic planning for business

Spreadym

Environmental Analysis: Evaluating the external environment, including market trends, competition, technological advancements, regulatory factors, and societal changes. These goals provide a clear direction for the organization and serve as benchmarks for measuring progress.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Its index and its benchmark. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing.

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

Musings on Markets

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?