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Enhancing Business Valuation: Aligning Owner Perception with Market Realities

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Owner’s opinions of their business value can be influenced by inherent biases, flawed valuation methodologies, and factors lurking beyond their control. Owners often seek valuations from CPAs or similar entities for purposes such as insurance, estate planning, or internal events.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

Its index and its benchmark. What, what was the career plan? And speaking of the.com implosion, like Microsoft via a case study where we, in previous strategies, we held Microsoft for a very long time, that’s where the valuation could help us in the.com bus. a year, way over both. It’s in the top 1% of its peers.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

Barry Ritholtz

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. And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective? And like all things, it took longer, was more complex. NORTON: No.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

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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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

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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Transcript: Jawad Mian

Barry Ritholtz

The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. What’s entertaining the family?

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

What was the original career plan? SALISBURY: Honestly, I didn’t really have a long-term plan. SALISBURY: Yes, I’d love to tell you there was some great master plan. A great example, you know, some of these things you can plan for and some you can’t. You begin in audit practice at KPMG.