PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Psychologically, it’s a benchmark of economic health, even if it is divorced from reality. And because it hasn’t thrown corporate valuations into the ditch, hopefully, companies have been able to bring back furloughed workers. That’s not to say the stock market isn’t important. Playing to Wall Street does two things.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I’m pro-algorithm,” said Bill Gurley, a general partner at venture capital titan Benchmark. . So far, the 2019 class of IPOs has had a number of unicorns (companies valued at $1 billion or higher), including Uber, Lyft and Pinterest. I’m not anti-banker. Also in attendance was New York Stock Exchange President Stacey Cunningham. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I’m pro-algorithm,” said Bill Gurley, a general partner at venture capital titan Benchmark. . So far, the 2019 class of IPOs has had a number of unicorns (companies valued at $1 billion or higher), including Uber, Lyft and Pinterest. I’m not anti-banker. Also in attendance was New York Stock Exchange President Stacey Cunningham. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

All in, hackers managed to nab names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world, as well as the data of about 7 million drivers, which includes 600,000 U.S. drivers’ license numbers. It’s a big number – but it comes as a big discount for buyers offering $32.97 billion in funding.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So there are a number of us heading in out of college into the BLS. And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective? NORTON: Concentrated portfolios or willing to stick our necks out and look different than a benchmark. MARTA NORTON, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, MORNINGSTAR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT: Right.

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

A benchmark exercise can also provide insight here. Ensuring Proper Inventory Valuation When inventory is not valued properly, turnover ratios return false information, affect cash, and cloud understanding of how investment in inventory is affecting the business. Large companies will have historical information to look back on.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

itself being a very international country where many of its residents hail from outside of its borders, concerns are on the rise about the country’s workforce and if there could possibly be quotas put on the number of people who remain. With the U.K. in order to employ people from the E.U. rather than directly in the U.K. is yet to be seen.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

For example, you can see what’s the biggest drawdown, how long did it last, how long and how often did a strategy beat its benchmark, and by what magnitude. Barry Ritholtz : So let’s break that into two halves, starting with valuation. Explain why P/E isn’t the best way to measure valuation.

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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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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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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. In a reflection of the times, there have been two developments.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And now we have a number of different hedge funds, some we have in the macro, we have multi-Strat, we have point hedge funds with in technology in the healthcare field. The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation. 00:09:40 [Speaker Changed] Correct.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. But number two is from a demographic standpoint.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

I left HSBC Group at the end of 1999, and some friends of mine that I’d known a long time had came on — came out of the fixed income side at a number of investment banks, generally, top II-rated (ph) mortgage research and more — traders, fixed income salesman, and to raise third-party capital broker-dealers required. CONROD: Sure.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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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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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

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. So up 18 or 19 percent for the year, you see those spectacular numbers. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. BERNSTEIN: Correct.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

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: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? How do you track performance?

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Even though Tesla has only been included in the benchmark S&P 500 Index for three weeks, the company's growth prospects remain bright, analysts said, as it is building new plants to boost production to meet demand. “We EV Enthusiasm. million hybrids and close to two million electric vehicles on the road in the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. ’cause L-I-B-O-R was probably the most important number, certainly in credit, maybe in all of finance. Number one, the economy’s a lot stronger than they thought it was gonna be.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The bankruptcy filing of FTX has even more fundamentally damaged perceptions of the asset class, and sent valuations tumbling to lows not seen in several years. . Prior to that he spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst at a number of securities firms and hedge funds in the New York metropolitan area.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. It was about $170 million valuation.

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