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991: Transforming Investment Wisdom Into Management Strategy | Jeff Bray, CFO, Semperis

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He recalls a strategic moment when he realized that narrowing his investments from many down to just three to five key stocks would greatly amplify his success. Semperis’s CFO insists on a robust framework within which sales efforts align precisely with company goals and resources are invested in segments that drive the most value.

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Companies eye money market funds for cash management

Future CFO

Moreover, current market conditions drive private fund managers to hone in on their cash management practices , with many turning to strategies more commonly used by their corporate counterparts. Money market funds are “particularly attractive” as they generate yield on idle cash and are highly liquid, according to Quinn.

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Musings on Markets: Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

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The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Momentum in the job market picked up aggressively over the past year — all while Washington is deadlocked on a border deal ( Washington Post ) • The Errors Tour: How the Pros Bungled the End of Zero Interest Rates : A look at the ways forecasters, traders and executives missed the mark over the past two years. And at the lessons learned.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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What Investors Need to Know

CFO News Room

In the short-term, Bitcoin trades as a risky asset in an increasingly risk-on, risk-off market. We specifically mentioned three cryptocurrencies in this article, but there are actually more than 10,000 coins in the crypto world, so it’s important to categorize the coins before making investment decisions.

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Who owns India’s firms? It’s time to find out

CFO News

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has proposed a new rule to track the source of foreign money for high-risk investors in an effort to root out questionable foreign investment in India’s publicly traded companies. If passed, the new rule would require any investor with more than INR 250 billion ($3.3