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Treasurers Beware: FX Risk Is Not What It Used To Be

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Traditionally, however, multi-currency accounts are often opened within silos, unable to integrate and communicate with each other, or other cash management systems. is critical, said Descout, adding that integration and automation across back-office platforms is key to FX management solutions, too.

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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

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Business Model Airbnb's primary business model connects hosts who own houses and apartments with guests who want to rent them for short term stays, while providing a secure and easy-to-use platform for search, reservations, communications and payments.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

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In my third post at the start of 2023, I looked at US treasuries, the long-touted haven of safety for investors. In 2022, they were in the eye on the storm, with the ten-year US treasury bond depreciating in price by more than 19% during the year, the worst year for US treasury returns in a century.

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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

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Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. Many advisors are accustomed to using verbal communication with clients (e.g., in client meetings ) and written communication (e.g., He can be reached at [email protected]. Read More +.

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Transcript: Charlie Ellis

Barry Ritholtz

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. I start a business to make a profit. I’ll get bigger, I’ll make more profits.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. September 13, 1981, I think the 10-year Treasury was 15.84 There was XO Communication and McLeod. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. But it makes a big, big difference to your long-term outcomes if you can just avoid those big losses. And the 10 year yield of A A A J G B or or a or a, a treasury or a bond. That’s the $2 that the lottery is worth for me.