Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

The move aligns UOB, which also won the Best Bank in Singapore, with ASEAN’s rise as an economic powerhouse, rapidly transformed via megatrends like supply chain diversification, digitalization and investments in net-zero transitions and a rising middle class. Its expansion into the region via the $5 billion Singapore dollars (about $3.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

Limited supply of talent (40 percent), especially in the construction (63 percent) and services (50 percent) industries. Uncertainty of economic conditions (33 percent). From a benchmark of 100 in the first quarter of 2007, the SFBI has increased to 112.9 The retail industry was higher at 86 percent. International Growth.

Benchmarking 41

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Regulators seek to arrest economic slowdown. Additionally, with low demand for credit by the country’s borrowers, authorities reduced the loan prime rate, the benchmark lending rate, including specific relief on mortgages. The down payment was reduced to 15% from 25% for second-time homebuyers.

Banking 40

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

She has dual degrees in Economics and Corporate Finance and a certification in Advanced Behavioral Analysis. Providing constructive feedback to newer associate advisors is also important. They also serve as a benchmark for whether team members are succeeding in their roles on an ongoing basis.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The scale of the proposed transaction, and therefore the quantum of its economics, is wholly different from those we’ve already signed,” the executive said, noting that Kroger was in the best position to be successful in the U.S. market, though Ocado plans to have talks with other U.S. But maybe it’s too little too late?

Construction 40

Construction Benchmarking Retail Valuation 40

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? And so that’s a really fertile, constructive environment for us to try and generate returns. But will it be volatile enough for it to be fertile for what we do and constructive for what we do? How do you track performance?

Profit and Loss 122

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. The hedge fund industry, generally, is outperforming their benchmarks.

Marketing 69

Marketing Investments Risk Management Economics 69

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.

Investments 52

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

10 Key Performance Indicators For Financial Advisory Firms To Compare With Industry Benchmarking Studies – Industry benchmarking studies can be a valuable tool for advisory firm owners to make better business decisions. The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business.

Planning 130

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 52

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

10 years ago you had the top economics, economists, investors in America writing a letter to the Fed in 2010 saying, “Hey, stop QE. In 2015, Bill Gurley at Benchmark was saying Silicon Valley is in a bubble. You’ve seen job losses in goods producing sectors, manufacturing, auto, construction. ” RITHOLTZ: Right.

Marketing 52

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

You need to be more constructive because Dow 57% is a fantastic reset.” It seems like an easy one, but there’s a lot of missed benchmarking that goes on. We’re going to make a benchmark much easier. So we haven’t talked about the thematic ETS, biblical, partisan, our friend Perth Tolle’s Economic Freedom.

Investments 111

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So I leave the Bureau of Labor Statistics and I move into economic consulting. NORTON: Concentrated portfolios or willing to stick our necks out and look different than a benchmark. You know, pretending to be active but mimicking the benchmark because of how big, you know, the big six companies in the U.S. NORTON: Right.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Benchmarking Marketing 52

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And the advice that he gave to David Einhorn about it that helped lead Einhorn to start really kicking the benchmark’s butt again for the past couple of years. Things like leading economic indicators, et cetera, are all consistent with historical recessions. I found this conversation to be both interesting and surprising.

Concentration 69

Concentration Marketing Valuation Investments 69

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

So 00:09:10 [Speaker Changed] I know Orion for many years because from the RIA perspective, from a registered investment advisor perspective, clients want to know how their portfolios are doing, what their performance is, both in absolute terms and relative to benchmarks. So tell us a little bit about that. But it does relax tracking error.

Investments 59

Investments Communication Benchmarking Technology 59

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree?

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Numbers Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

They were so poorly constructed, they were destined to fail. 00:47:06 [Speaker Changed] I know you guys don’t release public performance numbers, but I know you are doing much better than your benchmark this quarter. Economics is not a science. People try to portray economics as a science, and it, it simply is not.

Profit and Loss 59

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

Different companies have researched mucosal vaccines for COVID, but the data is small and fragmented, Beigel said, using different methods and benchmarks. This makes it difficult for scientists to compare early results from labs that have tried out new vaccines in animals. “It

Benchmarking 130

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. There is alpha. Can you manage that through downturns?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 59

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Marketing Investments Education 59

Global Finance

MARCH 3, 2025

Globally, Social bonds will be constrained by a lack of benchmark-sized projects, while transition-labeled bonds and sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) will remain niche segments as they navigate evolving market sentiment, the ratings agency posted on its website. A 3 billion Hong Kong dollar (about $385.7 billion Taiwan dollar (about $1.9

Finance 90

Finance Construction Banking Benchmarking 90

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?

Investments 59

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 59

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

You get a BA in Economics from Hamilton College. So what we did was we figured out the economic rationale, the macroeconomic influences about why growth and value work at any point in time. And the methodology we use is very similar to what we originally constructed at Merrill. With no further ado, RBA’s Richard Bernstein.

Quantitative Analysis 64

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

The market is anticipating a cut in the benchmark interest rate later this month. economist at Capital Economics, said at the upcoming meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee that the report “would seem to make a mockery of market expectations” for the predicted rate cut. Construction added 21,000 and manufacturing added 17,000.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Construction Transportation Healthcare 40

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 31, 2023

Neil Dutta has been doing economic analysis and research from a market-based perspective for over 20 years. I found this to be just an absolutely fascinating discussion about how to best contextualize the world of economic data around you, in a way that’s useful for you as an investor. With no further ado, RenMac’s Neil Dutta.

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