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Evaluating Benchmark Misfit Risk

CFA Institute

How can we identify and measure a portfolio's benchmark misfit risk?

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CFOs tap into strategic approach in tech investing

Future CFO

Operating chief financial officers act more as strategic partners in times of economic fluctuations. In a recent McKinsey survey , 72% of CFOs said increased participation in business decision-making was their most impactful way to help manage economic volatility.

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MiB: Peter Atwater, Financial Insyghts

Barry Ritholtz

He is the author of several books on investing confidence, most recently The Confidence Map: Charting a Path from Chaos to Clarity. He points out the ramifications when society suffer from low confidence in both politics and economics can be very significant.

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Can deal with any yield spike in orderly manner: DEA secy

CFO News Room

The government and the central bank can deal with the movement of bond yield “in an orderly” and non-disruptive manner, economic affairs secretary Ajay Seth told FE on Wednesday. The benchmark has risen 40 basis points (bps) so far in 2022 on top of the 56 bps in 2021. lakh crore budgetted by the Centre for FY23. lakh crore in FY23.

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China lowers new benchmark lending rate to boost economy

Future CFO

China lowered its new benchmark lending rate on Wednesday, in an attempt to give a boost to the slowing economy and reduce funding costs. This wasn’t the first time that the one-year LPR was lowered—it has been lowered thrice since it became the official lending benchmark in August. The PBOC injected a net 80 billion yuan ($25.68

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Market gives thumbs up to Budget 2022

CFO News Room

But unlike other Budget Days, benchmarks ended the day in the green, as investors cheered a growth-oriented Budget. The government’s record borrowing plans for the next financial year sent benchmark bond yields to two-and-a-half years high. By Yoosef Kp & Ruchit Purohit. After surging as much as 1,018.03

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Bond Yields Surge in Europe as Old Jitters Return

CFO News Room

The benchmark 10-year U.S. Expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise rates multiple times in 2022 sparked an early year bond rout that has jarred financial markets, fueling declines in stocks and other riskier investments. Government bond yields surged world-wide after a strong report on the U.S.