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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. Shorten your supply chains and avoid concentration in one geographic region. Weakened balance sheet.

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

CFO News Room

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. He can be reached at [email protected]. Read more of Adam’s articles here.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

CFO News Room

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. Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area.

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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.

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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. Maverick 14 billion. 130 billion. Perceptive 10 billion.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

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.

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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. 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. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch.