CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In series, hosts Karen Webster and David Evans, economist and author of “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms , were joined by Delivery.com CEO Jed Kleckner to explore the critical role value and trust play in igniting a marketplace platform. How Delivery.com Delivers.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). Executive Summary. ESG/SRI criteria); advisors who want to overlay various rules (e.g.,

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. But he was wonderfully successful in the insurance environment.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Because the economics of profitability start showing up particularly when you’re starting to hire other advisors and staff and team. And so, that can move the numbers, as well. And so, that can move the numbers, as well. Where do you derive your numbers from? Is this an internal analysis process?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. How do you crunch the numbers on that, and where do you come out on small cap and value?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

As reported in this space and elsewhere, Ripple said in recent months that a number of financial firms have been signing on to its offerings for cross-border payments. The site said the transaction was valued at about $4,550, and was moved cross-border from the United Kingdom to Mexico. Among the dominant players: UPI, IMPS and others.

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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. 00:21:47 [Speaker Changed] And a lot of funds that have found success seem to have run some pretty concentrated portfolios. 00:22:29 [Speaker Changed] So less concentrated exposure.

Healthcare 61

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more ….

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. Cambridge U.K.,

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. During COVID, rather than just a monetary response, we saw a massive fiscal response, which seemed to have really helped across the entire economic strata, especially the middle class. I think it was a great training. I think we learned a lot.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

And number two, it may interest you to know, here are four or five different funds in the same situation. These are big numbers. WEINSTEIN: And there is also something too, as much as there has to be a respectful — number one, there has to be a respectful environment for everybody. And I realized I have his home number.

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Investments Numbers Risk Management Concentration 57

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. And I think that’s reflective of employee having a lot of leverage over employers. RITHOLTZ: Right. And free lunch.

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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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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 57

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. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

Sales 51

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

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Sales Retail Advertising Leverage 44

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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. So it’s like, yeah. It, it’s, it’s a totally, it’s, it’s very different.

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