CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

We also have a number of articles on taxes and end-of-year planning: The importance for advisors of understanding current RMD rules to ensure their clients take the proper distributions (and avoid a 50% penalty in the process!). While private valuations have soared in recent years, public markets continue to be less kind to RIAs.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Profit and Loss Investments Valuation 130

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

To find out more, I speak with Jeremy Schwartz, Global Chief Investment Officer of WisdomTree, leading the firm’s investment strategy team in the construction of equity Indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset Model Portfolios. Dividends come from earnings, and so those are sort of anchors to valuation.

Investments 114

Investments Valuation Construction Concentration 114

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: Within Morningstar Investment Management, we are very much high conviction investors probably — RITHOLTZ: Meaning concentrated portfolio? I was on the Producer Price Index.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Benchmarking Marketing 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They run long short across each of these, and they’ve put up some pretty impressive numbers over the past couple of years. And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. It’s beta neutral, market neutral.

Healthcare 61

Healthcare Investments Construction Concentration 61

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.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 61

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. What’s the valuation? Less, 20, 30%?

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Investments Marketing Treasury 52

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. I mean the valuation is the future cash flow discounted at a risk-free rate plus a risk premium. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about valuations relative to risk and reward.

Investments 57

Investments Banking Entertainment Valuation 57