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To NPV or Not to NPV: That Is the Question

Fpanda Club

oracle Aesop formulated his investment insight "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and since that time the model for calculating the value of an asset as the present value of the cash generated by this asset throughout its life has remained unchanged. In about 600 B.C.

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How to mitigate insolvency risk

Future CFO

Declining profitability: For example, are your sales lower or your cost of goods sold higher? Poor interest coverage ratio: This shows operating profits may not be able to cover interest expenses. Can you go to the capital markets or turn to your line of credit to raise money if need be? Weakened balance sheet.

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Uber CEO Says Its Business Is Stronger Than WeWork

PYMNTS

“Fundamentally the rideshare market is of scale, is global, is an attractive business, and it’s only going to get better in a competitive market.”. Both were largely invested in by SoftBank, received early money from Benchmark Capital and both have operating losses of more than $1 billion a year.

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Delinquencies Up, But Canadian Firms Prove Resilient Through Market Turmoil

PYMNTS

PayNet’s data, which analyzed small business borrowing activity in February, found only a slight increase in SMB investment, but the seventh month in a row of loan origination decreases. The slight downturn comes at a time of broader market volatility as the U.K. Private companies are captives of their global markets,” he said.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. Is that poker, is that investing sounds like both.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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Performance Advertising Under the SEC’s Marketing Rule

CFO News Room

For investment advisers looking to attract prospective clients, advertising the performance of their investment strategies would be a logical way to market their services (at least if they had strong historical returns!). Executive Summary.