PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. So, eBay set in motion a number of things in an attempt to blunt the impact of these shifts and to bring new buyers and sellers into the mix. From the Living Room to the Basement. For much of its first decade, eBay was on a roll. In September of that year, eBay went public.

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Advertising Retail Startups eCommerce 51

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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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. In a reflection of the times, there have been two developments.

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Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 80

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Combined with growing advisor (and consumer) interest in comprehensive financial planning services, the number of ways advisors can add value for their clients has expanded greatly. Luckily, advisors have a large number of ways to add value to their clients’ lives (more than 101 in fact!),

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Here’s how it works: The user measures carbon dioxide concentration by breathing into a handheld device, which resembles an oblong remote control device. And when they think about test results , it’s more likely to involve a positive or negative than a number.

Concentration 52

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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

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. First, focus on putting up the numbers. Final word.

Investments 107

Investments Concentration Profit and Loss Economics 107

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

How do you crunch the numbers on that, and where do you come out on small cap and value? The hedge fund industry, generally, is outperforming their benchmarks. And at the same time, we have also a number of short-term drivers to the markets that we need to take into account. Now, is that historically a very high number?

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Investments Marketing Economics Risk Management 64

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. And so, while you can see that concentration in markets, and sales, and trading, once I started really working with our private bank in a meaningful way, I was then able to lead teams of investment counselors and investors.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. The s and p 500 has underperformed his fund by 3.7%

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

A and, 00:12:27 [Speaker Changed] And my takeaway from that is market timing is one part science, where you’re crunching numbers and looking at history, but you can’t get away from one part art where after you’re watching the markets for decades like him, there’s a an intuitive feel where just something starts to smell wrong.

Investments 56

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 56

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? How do you track performance?

Profit and Loss 117

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 117

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. ’cause L-I-B-O-R was probably the most important number, certainly in credit, maybe in all of finance. Number one, the economy’s a lot stronger than they thought it was gonna be.

Treasury 56

Treasury Marketing Economics Banking 56

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And 00:06:38 [Speaker Changed] Door number one was much better than door number three in, in the circumstances. When we talk about breadth, we’re talking about the numbers of advancers versus decliners. So it’s like, yeah. It, it’s, it’s a totally, it’s, it’s very different.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 60