Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By providing immediate cash flow, SCF helps suppliers avoid the pitfalls of traditional loans that can be challenging to secure during economic downturns. This offering enables secure funding against purchase orders from buyers and streamlines cash flows.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

The first is that there is no risk that the issuer of the security will default on their contractual commitments. As the risk-free rate rises, expected returns on equities will be pushed up, and holding all else constant, stock prices will go down., and the reverse will occur, when risk-free rates drop.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

And it’s gotten ver like the average active fund has gotten closer and closer to the benchmark over the last five years. But now we’re back to a more normal hurdle rate. 5% interest rates is not super high. 00:38:37 [Speaker Changed] Bill Miller says active management is being destroyed by closet indexers.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He is Chief Equity technical strategist at B of A Securities, and he’s a double threat. And I think you will also, with no further ado, my conversation with B of A Securities, Steven Sutt Meyer. I don’t think I’m allowed to do that at, at b of a security. I find his work to be very informative and very useful.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Most clients, whether they’re individuals or institutions, have some sort of benchmark, a policy portfolio, some strategic asset allocation that they start with. It’s Mr. And, and Mrs. The first is it creates a return hurdle problem, whatever I’m selling. So it creates a fer 00:24:32 [Speaker Changed] Rate.

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