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Shopping App Wish Gets $300M At $11.2B Valuation

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The round, which was led by General Atlantic, gives the San Francisco-based app a post-money valuation of $11.2 The San Francisco-based company utilizes a Pinterest-like interface that uses algorithms and Big Data to provide users with a customized retail experience. In 2014, the company was worth $400 million.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Nov 5-6) 2022

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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. While private valuations have soared in recent years, public markets continue to be less kind to RIAs. Enjoy the ‘light’ reading!

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

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The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies.

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Funds Flow in Southeast Asia, Giving Tech Unicorns Wings

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That fundraising activity brings the latest valuation of the firm to $10 billion. The money is concentrated, at least for now and at least in terms of where it is headed. Per research from Cento Ventures , Southeast Asia has been fertile ground for tech investments and that will continue in the current year.

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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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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

Musings on Markets

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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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. . ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio.