CFO Dive

AUGUST 6, 2025

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CFO Dive

AUGUST 6, 2025

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 11, 2025

And then at some point the leadership reached out to me and they said, Hey, do you wanna do something? But as an angel investor, I would say you need to have, if you’re gonna be effective in the long term, some coherent strategy or philosophy around portfolio construction so that you don’t run outta money.

Startups

CFO Dive

AUGUST 5, 2025

Finance, transportation, wholesale trade and eight other service industries grew in July while seven shrank, including food services and accommodation, construction and mining, the ISM found in a monthly survey. during the second quarter. Anna Moneymaker / Staff via Getty Images Dive Brief: Growth in the U.S. TechTarget, Inc.s

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 20, 2025

We try and incorporate some things and how you incorporate them into the portfolio construction, where you constrain and where you don’t like how much are you willing to take on of sector risk. And our small value, omni small value fits into their allocation in a way that’s efficient for their portfolio construction.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

CFO Dive

AUGUST 4, 2025

Consumer spending has flat-lined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall,” he said Sunday on X. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways,” Zandi said on X. With inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue,” Zandi said.

Marketing

The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 19, 2023

The CFO role traditionally has two high-level leadership archetypes: strategic and operational. Benefits from an Operational Finance Leader Operational finance leadership is a valuable asset for any business, as it can bring a variety of benefits to the table.

Leadership

VCFO

MAY 30, 2024

Properly channeled, even anger and frustration can be constructive. For financial factors, this includes actions such as employing add-backs and adjustments to support accurate benchmarking, recognizing and reflecting one-time expenses, and ensuring accurate and properly prepared financial statements. We’ve sat in your leadership seat.

Strategic Planning

VCFO

MAY 26, 2022

The process is generally led by the HR Executive with leadership team collaboration. Historically, examining compensation strategy and conducting compensation benchmarks has largely been an annual or, in some cases, even less frequent endeavor. Benefits: Part of a Total Rewards Strategy.

Communication

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Prior to founding Journey, Penny ran a consulting and coaching firm called Thrivos Consulting, and prior to that worked in various leadership positions across the financial services industry. Providing constructive feedback to newer associate advisors is also important.

Practice Management

CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

Construct Reliable Control Systems: Ensuring the integrity of financial systems and controls is crucial. This could involve benchmarking against industry standards, conducting financial analyses, and implementing best practices. The post A Practical Guide for the New CFO appeared first on CFO Club Africa.

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Planful

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Among the many great topics on the agenda at the Argyle CFO Leadership Forum in Dallas was a session titled “Managing and Minimizing Enterprise Risk.” For another, their biggest risk is ensuring safety on the job sites, but they also face fluctuating demand in the construction industry and the risk this puts on their P&L.

Risk Management

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

The hedge fund industry, generally, is outperforming their benchmarks. So for someone like me, who started my career in academia and spent my research years thinking about portfolio construction, asset allocation, macro, asset pricing, and then I went into the hedge fund industry.

Marketing

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

RITHOLTZ: We’ll talk a little bit about leadership and crew development a little later. So let’s discuss leadership and what you do to develop crew members and to identify and foster other people’s leadership skills. So, Ken ended up being one of the best bosses I’ve ever had in my career.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

So you did not have policy or political leadership that was very inspiring. 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. Construction employment last year was a record. .” RITHOLTZ: Right.

Marketing

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

You need to be more constructive because Dow 57% is a fantastic reset.” RITHOLTZ: So you would like to see leadership from the U.S. 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. That was kind of a lonely voice for a few years.

Investments

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

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Their benchmarks were down. How much credit goes to places like the FDIC or the SEC or is it just the full faith and credit of the US government standing on top of a very healthy macro economy 00:23:14 [Speaker Changed] In terms of the market construct comparing us versus the rest of the world? They were down 3.8%.

Numbers

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. Last year, you said you’re starting to become more constructive on emerging markets and more balanced, obviously, on the U.S.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

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. This awards program covers activities from January 2024 to December 2024.

Finance

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

00:18:13 [Speaker Changed] When markets are going up, the benchmark is either an index like the s and p 500 or you know, someone you know that’s making even more money than you are. But it’s amazing how quickly the benchmark turns into cash or a positive return when markets are going down.

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