PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Amazon now has Amazon Care , a mobile app that connects consumers with healthcare providers online and via walk-in clinics, initially in the Greater Seattle area and more recently in neighborhoods near its warehouse facilities for its employees. More than one-third — 56 million — Prime members stream video and music content via Amazon.

Healthcare

The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

For instance, a healthcare solutions company might have a long-term strategy to introduce a new telemedicine platform. To reach that objective, the company's development team might set an operational benchmark of developing a prototype of the platform for beta testing within six months.

Planning

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Reports in e27 said MAA Group provided the investment, which microLEAP plans to use for marketing, new staff hires and technological enhancements. million investment round, which it said it will use to expand its team and expand its product. Sequoia Capital India led the Series A investment, TechCrunch reported.

B2B

CFO Leadership

APRIL 10, 2023

For companies asking employees to travel, a duty of care applies to practices, policies, business decisions, and even the healthcare that employers extend to employees in their working environment and outside the office. Achieving that goal means investing time and money, mostly around planning and implementing best practices.

Risk Management

E78 Partners

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With patient acquisition costs continuing to rise in today’s competitive healthcare environment, retaining existing patients is crucial for sustainable growth. Industry Trend Alignment: With increasing pressure on margins in the healthcare industry, understanding the revenue generated per procedure is essential.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

E78 Partners

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With patient acquisition costs continuing to rise in today’s competitive healthcare environment, retaining existing patients is crucial for sustainable growth. Industry Trend Alignment: With increasing pressure on margins in the healthcare industry, understanding the revenue generated per procedure is essential.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

For instance, a healthcare solutions company might have a long-term strategy to introduce a new telemedicine platform. To reach that objective, the company's development team might set an operational benchmark of developing a prototype of the platform for beta testing within six months.

Planning

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A second guess would have been a healthcare company. We have lowered the cost of investing, and we have improved the quality of those funds. And right now, you look back over 10 years, our active funds, 94 percent are outperforming their competitive group averages, 68 percent are outperforming their benchmarks. BUCKLEY: Yeah.

Leadership

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. I, I found this to be really an intriguing conversation with somebody who, whose investment charge is unconstrained.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Michael Carmen, Co-Head, Private Investments, Wellington Management , is below. We were originally very equity heavy back in the day, and we made a lot of investments on the fixed income side. So fixed income is now a substantial percentage of our assets. 00:07:20 [Speaker Changed] Right.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Its index and its benchmark. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing.

Valuation

Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Key features — The top features each platform is known for or has invested in. Benchmarking and KPI tracking across the organization to stay on course. Since Workday acquired Adaptive Planning, they’ve invested a lot in making the two systems work well together. Ad hoc reporting and visualization. Final thoughts on OnPlan.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And that takes you down a road of increasingly complex or sophisticated investment vehicles, the move towards alternatives, the move towards private equity and hedge funds and a lot of different things that get done with the portfolios of high-net-worth clients. ” His friend said, “I know a little bit about what you care about.

Communication

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

101 Things That Advisors Actually DO To Add Value (Beyond Just Allocating A Portfolio) – Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. Financial Planning.

Planning

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up.

Investments

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

David Conrod, what a fascinating career in the world of capital raising and private equity from Guggenheim Partners to FocusPoint Capital, he really has seen just a little bit of everything and is very, very knowledgeable about how that side of the investment world works. HSBC sponsored the team to invest in India and South Asia.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. You’re chief investment officer.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

She is one of the few people who combine quantitative investing with behavioral finance. No, I think that that’s the part of it that I find the most interesting is the idea that, you know, a stock price doesn’t really have a, you know, the fair value of an an investment instrument is somewhat arbitrary. Right, right.

Finance

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab Chief Investment Strategist , is below. She is the chief investment strategist and member of the firm’s Investment Committee at Schwab. She is as much in the mix, in the thick of what’s going on in the world of investing as anybody.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The Conversation ) see also Fraud and Fakery at the Countrys Largest Chain of Methadone Clinics : Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who arent addicted to opioids, a Times investigation found. ( Innovation and Tech Active ETF , just began trading.

Benchmarking

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. We went out, we got Shahir hired, you know, but then you’ve gotta go out and hire people in the healthcare space.

Marketing

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

What do corporate venture capital (CVC), sovereign wealth funds (SWF) and green investing share in common? Corporate Venture Capital Corporate venture capital (CVC) refers to capital invested by established firms, into young companies and start-ups, sometimes in the same business and sometimes in others.

Investments