CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Personally, it has been a big year of change as well, with the Kitces.com platform adding new team members, rolling out a new IAR CE offering and our latest Estate Planning course, and introducing the AdvisorTech Directory, among other additions, to fulfill our own mission of “Making Financial Advicers Better and More Successful”.

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Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I think it was just a bit of poor planning more than anything else. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. NORTON: Concentrated portfolios or willing to stick our necks out and look different than a benchmark. NORTON: No.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Benchmarking Marketing 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. 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. Executive Summary. Team Kitces.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. What, what was the career plan? Whereas the ETF is designed to be a more straightforward s and p 500 US only equity strategy 00:29:26 [Speaker Changed] And it’s concentrated 35 large cap stocks. a year, way over both. It’s in the top 1% of its peers. Morningstar five star gold rated.

Valuation 52

Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

VCFO

MARCH 30, 2023

A good place to start is benchmarking yourself against your competition. If a company’s offerings are so niched or concentrated, what happens if demand shifts suddenly or consistently over time for that offering or set of offerings? Anyone with thoughts of selling their business within five years would be wise to get to work now.

Valuation 89

Valuation SAP Concentration Benchmarking 89

Future CFO

AUGUST 18, 2023

This allows the organisation’s core finance and accounting (F&A) operations to concentrate on more strategic work, such as financial analysis and planning. "We In the finance function, basic accounting processes like accounts payable, payroll and purchasing are often allocated under the shared services model.

Finance 52

Finance Communication Accounts Payable Invoicing 52

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. What is that business plan look like?

Investments 107

Investments Concentration Profit and Loss Economics 107

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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. And so, in Q2, we heard a lot that recession wasn’t the base case, but they’re — they’re planning.

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 the division that I was in was below plan. So it leads to the question, what’s the secret to this longstanding outperformance against all benchmarks and, and all passive measures?

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

What was the original career plan? 00:09:37 [Speaker Changed] So again, I was on the avatar side of this y avatar broader organization, which was institutional money management, managing money for a lot of large corporate plans and foundations and endowments. You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware.

Investments 56

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 56

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Morgan found that, from 1980-2020, around 40% of the time a concentrated position in a single stock experienced negative absolute returns. Swift began to execute a plan to regain control and in the process created a radical new blueprint for artists and music ownership. Recall J.P. Can It Be Done Again?

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Concentration Advertising Investments 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

What was the original career plan? There was hardly any time for, for planning. Here’s how I would identify a core along you, you first and foremost, you identify what your benchmark is, how are you measuring your performance? 00:00:57 [ Stephen Suttmeier ] Thank you very much, Barry. So, yeah, I’m glad to have you.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 60