Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

 At the Money: Stock Picking vs. Value Investing with Jeremy Schwartz, Wisdom Tree. Should value investing be part of that strategy? TRANSCRIPT: Jeremy Schwartz Value Investing Barry Ritholtz : How much you pay for your stocks has a giant impact on how well they perform. What Is value investing?

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VCFO

MARCH 30, 2023

Building Blocks and Best Practices for Driving Business Value Business valuation is not an original or uncommon topic. If a company’s offerings are so niched or concentrated, what happens if demand shifts suddenly or consistently over time for that offering or set of offerings?

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In this post, I will argue that there are good reasons for Airbnb's IPO timing, and make my first attempt at valuing this latest entrant into public markets. Acquisitions : As the number of hosts and guests on Airbnb have climbed over the years, the company has invested in building a more robust platform for its rentals.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

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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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Marta Norton, Morningstar Investment Management , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ, BLOOMBERG RADIO HOST: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Marta Norton is the Chief Investment Officer for Morningstar Investment Management. What makes a good investment strategy?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms. So, why bother?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Investments for 9-5-2016. In investing, whether across equities, private placements or venture capital activity, no one likes the term “anemic.”. But that may be the appropriate term — at least, in describing the latest documentation of fund flows through our Investment Tracker. A large manufacturer in the U.S.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering , and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. Within the investment community, there has always been a clear recognition of the importance of intangibles in driving investment value.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. In the decade since, that has changed, as the smart phone market has exploded to reach hundreds of millions of Indians in 2020.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s beta neutral, market neutral. It’s always interesting to speak to a fund manager in the midst of one of the craziest macro periods of the markets that we’ve seen and God knows how long, who doesn’t factor in macro events or the overall market because they’re market neutral and hedged.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks. So that was my initial foray into the investment business. SEIDES: That was my true investment MBA. He said, “You’re not going to learn anything about investing.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast I have an extra special guest, Luis Berruga has a fascinating career as both a tech wizard and investment banker before becoming CEO of Global X ETFs. I did in 2013 the largest banking transaction that the market had seen since the financial crisis, it was a $2.4

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a result, the ‘traditional’ valuation of an advisory firm wasn’t really 2X revenue; it was 6-8X profits, and when advisory firms can run 25% to 30% profit margins, 7X profits at 28% margins came out to almost exactly 2X revenue. (In When it comes to technology firms, revenue valuation multiples are often much higher.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2016

The fact remains that venture capital firms are in the midst of raising money at a level not seen in a decade and a half, and yet, as The Wall Street Journal noted this week, the valuations of some of the highest fliers in the land of startups have started to move back toward earth, which brings to mind Icarus and the sun. With hesitation.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

directly via email: Resources Featured In This Episode: Looking for sample client service calendars, marketing plans, and more? And we’re going to talk about what’s going on in the markets, briefly talk about the portfolio. So, last year, valuations were high, interest rates were low. Cean: Thanks, Michael.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

I found this to be really a fascinating conversation about approaching the world of investing from a different angle. So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 6, 2023

My morning train WFH reads: • The Active Management Delusion: Respect the Wisdom of the Crowd : “My basic point here is that neither the Financial Analysts as a whole nor the investment funds as a whole can expect to ‘beat the market,’ because in a significant sense they (or you) are the market. Vox ) • Got Milk?

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

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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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab Chief Investment Strategist , is below. She is the chief investment strategist and member of the firm’s Investment Committee at Schwab. She is as much in the mix, in the thick of what’s going on in the world of investing as anybody.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

have made 19 deals so far this year, according to Refinitiv, the London-based global provider of financial market data. This represents the fastest pace of acquisitions and strategic investments since 2015. Facebook and Microsoft Corp. Two years ago it was valued at $3.2 billion, FT reported. . think-tank, told the news service.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. TROPIN: So it was very fertile to do what we do because markets moved a lot.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. So again, so it came back out to the market and it held on to all the pieces except Danaher. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Things get worse at one of the companies that I’ve invested in.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Banks have invested time and money into creating their own virtual assistants to give consumers access to their bank account information via their mobile phones. but in large developing markets where other established competitors have a healthy head start. That’s unlikely to be transactional banking services — not just here in the U.S.,

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There are few people in the world who understand the interrelationships between central banks, the economy, and markets like Bill Dudley does this, this is just a master class in, in understanding all the factors that affect everything from the economy to inflation, to the labor market, the housing market, and of course, federal Reserve policy.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The performance at the fund flagged, which sort of set him back hunting for what was going wrong with his style of value investing. And he came to some really fascinating conclusions, which led him to change how they approached investing. And that gave me an opportunity to enter the job market. I interviewed with some airlines.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Morningstar has joined an increasingly competitive market of direct indexing platforms for advisors and their clients. From there, we have several articles on investment planning: While I Bonds have received significant attention during the past year, TIPS could be an attractive alternative for many client situations. Team Kitces.

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