CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Valuations of Hong Kong-listed stocks are now quite reasonable, Mr. Ru said, adding that he doesn’t expect China’s internet sector to be hit with major regulatory changes this year. . In the bond market, the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield declined to 1.903%, according to Tradeweb.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. For an investment to be risk free then, it has to meet two conditions.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. They create the benchmark. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark? So, our active team has been successful outperforming their benchmarks.

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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?

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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.

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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. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper.

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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?

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