CFO Talks

JUNE 2, 2022

Dean Schweizer is CFO of Astoria Investments, a public company listed in Mauritius, with investments in sectors like retail, mining, alternate gaming, education and asset-backed finance into the vehicle trade industry. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants.

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CFO Talks

JUNE 2, 2022

Dean Schweizer is CFO of Astoria Investments, a public company listed in Mauritius, with investments in sectors like retail, mining, alternate gaming, education and asset-backed finance into the vehicle trade industry. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Today, corporate public relations and communication teams go to great lengths to find any angle to connect what they’re doing to the blockchain so that they, too, can ride its publicity draft. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., In short, there seems to be, literally, nothing the blockchain cannot do. billion by 2021.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With each decade, you can see the effect of regional and sector performance in the previous decade; the 1990 list is dominated by Japanese stocks, reflecting the rise of Japanese equities in the 1980s, and the 2000 list by technology and communication companies, benefiting from the dot-com boom.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. And even if it’s at, let’s say 6.5,

Investments 116

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was thinking any number of things and mostly that I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I was not kind of at all informed by, you know, gender norms that people asked me a lot about now, in particular how do you know a woman, how did you think about ending up in this thing? MCCARTHY: Yeah, absolutely.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And then I left there and joined a number of my colleagues from Drexel and launched a business that as it turns out, was pretty much a carbon copy of the business we have today. And fortunately for us, there were a number of large scale alternative asset managers, like Carlyle, that were looking to grow in private credit.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. So, so you choose a number of specific industries or did you choose them? RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

And before you knew it, she was the number one salesperson for selling to professional salons in the whole country. RITHOLTZ: The Bureau of Business Prevention is how the retail brokers used to describe compliance. They just didn’t do that in big numbers back then. You could probably build a better communications strategy.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And since that happened, I don’t know, about four or five years ago, the fund has been putting up great numbers, outperforming doing really, really well. That explaining that process and communication to people built confidence. And we held it for, I don’t know, for a number of years. Is that a fair statement?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So I wanted to challenge myself, improve my communication skills, you know, through, through the writing process. 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.

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