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How to mitigate insolvency risk

Future CFO

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. Think of the retail shift to online when Covid-19 shut down bricks and mortar establishments overnight.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. But, with the rise of index funds and the commoditization of investment advice, generating sufficient investment ‘alpha’ to justify a fee has become more challenging for advisors.

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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. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. And so the average investor is unaware of them.

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Re-Packaging Apps To Sell: What Will It Take?

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The new version of the App Store was crafted to drive more app discovery and downloads through the separation of apps and games, increased investment in editorial content and features like “App of the Day,” which gives exposure to different developers daily. More than half of U.S. In 2016, that percentage dropped to 0.05

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. And, in 2011, eBay acquired eCommerce tech platforms GSI Commerce and Magento to create more synergies with the online retailers that were its customers. Speaking of online retailers, eBay went all out to court them. From the Living Room to the Basement.

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

Barry Ritholtz

So I was relating asset prices to GDP growth, to investment growth, to default rest, to factors like this. VASSALOU: In the case of value versus growth, it’s more related to the level of GDP growth and investment growth, and the different sectors of the economy. VASSALOU: I think it’s much more nuanced. VASSALOU: Yeah.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.