CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This is especially the case for advisors who are not already designated tax professionals like CPAs, attorneys, and EAs (who have their own specific requirements around tax advice to comply with as laid out in Treasury Department Circular 230 ). Affects how much can be saved to pre- and after-tax accounts ! Property and casualty insurance?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a result, the ‘traditional’ valuation of an advisory firm wasn’t really 2X revenue; it was 6-8X profits, and when advisory firms can run 25% to 30% profit margins, 7X profits at 28% margins came out to almost exactly 2X revenue. (In When it comes to technology firms, revenue valuation multiples are often much higher.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

And what’s their budget like a fraction of it, right? So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” ” And it turned out, if you looked at the market at that time, it was, I’ll call it 1%, five-year treasury or 10-year treasury.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. TROPIN: And you know, we certainly did that on a portion of what we look at as our risk budget. And last market question, so we’ve seen equity valuations come down. I get the sense you’re expecting cheaper valuations, if not much cheaper valuations. TROPIN: Right.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s just a fascinating conversation about looking at the world from both bottoms up and top-down, as well as thinking about what valuations are like, how likely are macro events, the impact you’re getting not just the return on capital, but as famously said in fixed income, a return of your capital. Treasury, the OFAC restrictions.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

While private valuations have soared in recent years, public markets continue to be less kind to RIAs. Swimming against the tide of I Bond popularity, Arends currently prefers investing in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) to I Bonds. Enjoy the ‘light’ reading! Author: Adam Van Deusen. Team Kitces. TIPS are a type of U.S.

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