Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

During 2022, the US treasury did not default, but an investor in a 10-year US treasury bond would have earned a return of -18% on his or her investment, as bond prices dropped. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

We break down all the numbers below. Last August, the company added, it surpassed another benchmark of providing an average of $1 million a day for small businesses. $30 billion worth of investment landed at FinTech startups last year , representing a more than 100 percent increase in the volume of investment for this segment.

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PWC UK

JANUARY 26, 2021

by Christopher Raftopoulos Director, Treasury Advisory and Assurance. LIBOR transition has been a hot topic for the corporate treasury community for at least the past year. A number of recent announcements should remind the treasurer that LIBOR’s likely eventual end date is fast approaching and action is needed. 

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. They create the benchmark. RITHOLTZ: How’d you end up at Merrill Lynch in the 1990s? DAVIS: Yes, exactly.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

While importers in China must provide supporting documents to their banks before making payments to overseas suppliers, the E-Customs Payment Solution requires JPMorgan’s clients in China to only send the payment instructions with a linked customs declaration number.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). Executive Summary.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. You said BlackRock absorbed R3.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Trackers use a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark an ever-changing landscape. This report looked at what treasury leaders and financial executives must know about the shifting dynamics of digital commerce — and how they can make the most of these emerging opportunities.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. The s and p 500 has underperformed his fund by 3.7%

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

A and, 00:12:27 [Speaker Changed] And my takeaway from that is market timing is one part science, where you’re crunching numbers and looking at history, but you can’t get away from one part art where after you’re watching the markets for decades like him, there’s a an intuitive feel where just something starts to smell wrong.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. RITHOLTZ: Like, very different universe, right? TROPIN: Right. TROPIN: Yeah. No, no, no.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, for example, the treasury was thinking about moving to direct deposit, but they wanted to know how much it was gonna cost them because direct deposit, they, they, they, they, the money clears, you know, sorry, almost instantly, right? So they wanna know how many days does it take a, a treasury check to get back to us.

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

We provide career development resources and unbiased content and established and administer the Certified Treasury Professional and Certified Corporate FP&A Professional credentials, which set standards of excellence in finance. They need to know how to tell stories about numbers. FP&A is also becoming a true business partner.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And 00:06:38 [Speaker Changed] Door number one was much better than door number three in, in the circumstances. When we talk about breadth, we’re talking about the numbers of advancers versus decliners. What do you see in, in treasuries and the fixed income half of the portfolio? So it’s like, yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. So whether you’re trying to get managed futures from an active manager or, you know, two months Treasuries, T bills, like the whole spectrum is now available in lose to 3,000 ETFs we are trading here in the U.S. It’s still a fairly small number.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary.

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