PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Several other SoftBank-backed startups, including the car leasing company Fair and construction group Katerra, announced layoffs affecting hundreds of employees late last year. SoftBank has roughly $1.5 The numbers are less than precise, because these are private companies and thus need not report how they are doing every quarter.

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Planful

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. One recommendation was to establish baselines for the business based on prior experience, or to use external benchmarking information to evaluate performance and risk.

Risk Management 40

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

A B2B transaction in an industry like construction, where what triggers a payment isn’t a single, simple invoice. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that the construction sector is no stranger to delayed and late B2B payments. What’s more complicated than a B2B transaction? In fact, nearly half wait up to 90 days to receive funds.

Construction 50

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

market, though Ocado plans to have talks with other U.S.-based The new funding was led by Benchmark , with Benchmark’s Bill Gurley joining the company’s board of directors. Over the next six months, Chef’d plans to expand to all of Byte’s locations, the company said in an announcement. “At based retailers.

Construction 40

Construction Benchmarking Retail Valuation 40

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”.

Planning 130

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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

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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. RITHOLTZ: At the BLS, no.

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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. They create the benchmark. DAVIS: Yes, exactly.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 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

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

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. There’s still a shortage of construction workers. Netflix was the best performing stock last decade.

Construction 52

Construction Marketing Valuation Investments 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

Limited supply of talent (40 percent), especially in the construction (63 percent) and services (50 percent) industries. Fifty-eight (58) percent of small businesses plan to obtain financing this year, compared to 52 percent in 2015. From a benchmark of 100 in the first quarter of 2007, the SFBI has increased to 112.9

Benchmarking 41

Benchmarking Forecasting Construction Finance 41

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. 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. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about BlackRock.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 56

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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

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

And the methodology we use is very similar to what we originally constructed at Merrill. RITHOLTZ: So tell us a little bit about the suite of services RBA offers, how do you work with advisors who say, hey, you know, I have good financial planning with my clients, but I don’t want to run the portfolios. BERNSTEIN: Right.

Quantitative Analysis 60

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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. And understanding those influences provides important context for planning ahead.” It’s the whole series.

Finance 107

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 31, 2023

Just in time supply chain can’t deal with it, prices spike on top of a decade long shortfall of home construction. DUTTA: I mean, Bernanke famously said, if inflation is the benchmark, I have the best inflation record of any chairman, because it’s basically been 2 percent the entire time I’ve been — RITHOLTZ: Right.

Economics 56

Economics Marketing Manufacturing Profit and Loss 56