CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

Understand and Mitigate Risks: A CFO must have a comprehensive understanding of the various risks the company faces, including operational, financial, and strategic risks. This involves developing risk management strategies to prevent or mitigate potential adverse impacts on the company.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

She cites the example of investing in renewable energy as a sustainability initiative that integrates ESG principles by reducing carbon emissions while also creating social benefits like job opportunities and improved public health. According to Soni, ESG factors are often integral to sustainability efforts.

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Centage

JANUARY 18, 2024

Stronger interdepartmental communication and collaboration is a good benchmark to set as a best practice for this year. Invest in training programs that focus on data analysis, data visualization, and other relevant skills. A proactive approach to scenario modeling enables better risk management and strategic decision-making.

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Future CFO

APRIL 24, 2023

There are nine security trends that CFOs need to be aware when working with CISOs and security and risk management leaders. According to Gartner , enterprises must rethink their balance of investments across technology and human-centric elements in cybersecurity programmes. “A

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Spreadym

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They serve as a benchmark against which actual performance is measured, and any deviations from the budget may require approval or justification. Benchmarking: Compare your budgeted figures to industry benchmarks and competitors to ensure your financial targets are realistic and competitive.

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Adam Kae

JULY 17, 2023

It's important to have a specialized hire to help you go over industry benchmarks, historical data analysis, and forecasting techniques to enhance your decision-making process. We'll also cover cash flow forecasting techniques and risk management to minimize financial uncertainties.

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Spreadym

JUNE 8, 2023

These goals could include increasing revenue, improving profitability, reducing costs, optimizing cash flow, expanding to new markets, or achieving a specific return on investment. This may involve determining pricing strategies, cost reduction initiatives, revenue growth plans, investment strategies, or capital structure decisions.

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Spreadym

JUNE 27, 2023

By providing financial insights and analysis, they assist in evaluating investment opportunities, assessing the financial impact of strategic initiatives, and developing long-term financial plans. FP&A helps assess the financial implications of these decisions, identify potential risks, and align strategies with long-term financial goals.

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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The latter, for example, is an offering that Bloomberg says can “ bring the full potential of AI to the financial domain ” and create entirely new workflows, economic analyses and financial benchmarks for its customers. That includes investing in people and business processes that can help your AI initiative be successful.

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Michigan CFO

JUNE 7, 2023

Their primary duties include financial planning, analysis, risk management, financial reporting, and leadership of the finance & accounting team. Understanding the Role of a CFO A CFO is a high-level executive responsible for overseeing the financial activities of an organization. What are the services of a virtual CFO?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  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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CFO Talks

MARCH 19, 2024

The CFO needs to consider how AI can be leveraged not just for automating routine tasks, but also for providing deeper insights into financial forecasting, risk management, and strategic decision-making. Investing Time and Resources Commitment is also measured in terms of resource allocation.

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CFA Institute

JANUARY 31, 2019

What is Ensemble Active Management (EAM) and how can it help active managers outperform their benchmarks after fees?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are all prevalent themes in this week’s venture capital breakdown, with startups working to overhaul entire processes for their enterprise customers, from logistics to workforce management. The firm said it will use the investment to focus on operational expansion.

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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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

businesses and their partners around the globe must hedge against FX risk, the latest analyst from Citi warns that FX hedging should be a top priority for companies in emerging markets. We have been discussing with the central bank how to create a [FX] hedging instrument,” said Vietnam State Capital Investment Corp.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

credit unions have invested in anti-malware, firewalls and other technologies to protect members’ personal data, but such measures are reactive. They will also be required to create new internal security procedures and invest in staff training to avoid violation risks. CUs’ Tools To Secure Member Privacy .

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Fpanda Club

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

With a focus on driving better strategic and operational decisions, finance business partners create value through cost and margins, revenue growth and risk management. However, 22% of business managers don’t consider any other financial implications but revenue when making operational decisions. Sounds great, right?

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CFO Leadership

APRIL 10, 2023

With increased risk comes the need for increased duty of care. A realistic duty of care policy goes hand-in-hand with effective travel risk management. That risk varies based on an organization’s size, industry, and scope of business travel. And setting a high bar for duty of care means actively tracking employees.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bloomberg To Incorporate Credit Risk Data. Bloomberg customers will now be able to use the news site's terminal to look at Credit Benchmark 's credit risk data, which comes from risk views of the world's largest financial institutions, according to a press release. They can also assess ongoing credit quality.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He’s a member of the management committee. 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.

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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.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

And so, a lot of my research was related to trying to uncover what were the underlying risk factors. And the place where I was looking for this risk factors was in the real economy. So I was relating asset prices to GDP growth, to investment growth, to default rest, to factors like this. VASSALOU: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But then this company, I’m getting off topic of the advanced management degree, but this company launched a new investment fund structure called Global Hub and Spoke or Master Feeder, you might have heard of it. And this is where I, I moved over to UAM at the time, which is the first multi boutique investment business.

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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. She really has an incredible background in everything from capital markets to derivatives, to wealth management. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. I mean, it’s an age old thing in investing and trading.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. 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.

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