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To NPV or Not to NPV: That Is the Question

Fpanda Club

This concept is built on the assumption that the market is not static: existing competitors and new entrants are continuously building capabilities to gain their positions on the market. As for established market players, they demonstrate much higher threshold of proof.

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

Musings on Markets

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. The second is that the government be perceived as default-free.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. Outperform the market over decades and you’re a winner.

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Transcript: Jawad Mian

Barry Ritholtz

He brings a fascinating approach and a bit of an outlier, contrarian way of looking at the world that has allowed him to identify specific changes in what’s taking place in the economy, in the markets, and essentially provide a helpful sounding board to many of the world’s best investors. the biggest risk in markets is ego.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

It was an era where, you know, first of all, the markets were really inefficient, right? TROPIN: So it was very fertile to do what we do because markets moved a lot. Commodity markets were moving a lot. It’s much better to be involved in trend following when markets are moving. Tell us a little bit about that era.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

So your doctoral thesis asserted that consistently beating market averages was attainable by exploiting both value and momentum. Because, you know, there’s this constant fight in academia, if you believe something works, does it work because markets are efficient in its compensation for risk, or for behavioral reasons?

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. So again, so it came back out to the market and it held on to all the pieces except Danaher. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. They’d say it’s a crap market.