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CFOs: Do you drive returns that exceed the cost of capital?

Future CFO

They also exhibit more resilience in the face of unexpected events, such as the economic crisis resulting from the current pandemic , he added. First, when the business gets word that CFOs are protecting costs associated with differentiation, everything becomes differentiating to protect business unit’s budgets.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: You guys do everything from quantitative analysis to macro. TROPIN: And you know, we certainly did that on a portion of what we look at as our risk budget. How do you contextualize the economic data and the broad stamp recession when you’re thinking about managing risk? RITHOLTZ: Right. TROPIN: Sure.