CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Facebook owner Meta Platforms lost a record $232 billion in market value Thursday after releasing a disappointing financial forecast, while shares of other companies including. In bond markets, the yield on the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury note ticked up to 1.847% from 1.825% Thursday. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 3.7%

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Benchmarking Treasury Forecasting Banking 130

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

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? And 87% of our active fixed income funds have outperformed their benchmarks on a three year basis against their benchmarks.

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Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 52

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: Why do you need the price of the Treasury market to the two-year forward or the three-year forward? There is alpha. RIEDER: Yeah.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 56

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? Well, I’m not forecasting another 20% down, but I do think we could go down 5% or 10%. RITHOLTZ: Like, very different universe, right? TROPIN: Right. We’re not talking junk bonds here.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, for example, the treasury was thinking about moving to direct deposit, but they wanted to know how much it was gonna cost them because direct deposit, they, they, they, they, the money clears, you know, sorry, almost instantly, right? So they wanna know how many days does it take a, a treasury check to get back to us.

Treasury 56

Treasury Marketing Economics Banking 56

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And I literally just started putting adjectives and nouns on piece of paper, trying to figure out like how do I describe the work that I think I should be doing, and that hopefully, people find at least entertaining, if not valuable? NADIG: Well, I mean, there’s like TLT, with the big Treasury funds, LQD and HYG. NADIG: Right.

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