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Customer Concentration

CFO Simplified

Customer concentration had become an ever-bigger problem as borrowing increased. Significant Findings and Recommendations: Reduce Customer Concentration. Market those to new clients. The big box forced extended payment terms on the company, in addition to increased marketing support. Location – Chicago, Illinois.

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Leveraging Structured Notes To Differentiate A Solo Practice

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What’s unique about Anh, though, is how, as a solo advisor, she differentiates her firm by leveraging the combination of a high-touch concierge approach to client service with a unique investment management approach through the use of very carefully chosen structured notes to differentiate her portfolio design from other advisors.

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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 History The Adani Group, founded by Gautam Adani, started life as a commodity trading partnership business in Gujarat, and listed on stock markets in 1994, as Adani Exports, with a large chunk of its revenues coming from its operation of a local port in Mundra, with a subsequent entry into the edible oil business.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (February 24-25)

Nerd's Eye View

Which suggests that instead of trying to go head-to-head with these larger firms (and their heftier marketing budgets) in attracting clients, smaller firms might instead demonstrate how they are 'different' by offering a unique service offering tailored to their ideal target clients.

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How global treasurers and CFOs should approach an erratic economy

Future CFO

Faced with ongoing market volatility, the enterprise C-suite is leaning on its treasury teams like never before to protect company assets and to (ideally) also capitalise on competitive opportunities emerging from an unstable macroeconomic climate. Treasurers should leverage cash forecasts to achieve better cash conversion.

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The weight of upskilling in finance

Future CFO

The evolution of the finance function over the past few years has been anything but apparent, with the whole advent of digitalisation within the team and the non-stop shifts in the market. He concedes that on top of the width and depth of the changes that are taking place, the pace of upskilling within the Finance team is the challenge. “It

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