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Cyberattacks On Track To Lead Corporate Insurance Claims: Study

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“One is the high concentration of value, and also the ever-increasing business interruption element of the claim. The pharmaceutical sector is another one where liability claims can be very significant, so it’s very different scenarios for different sectors.”

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

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Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent.

Economics 130
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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent.

Economics 100
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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

Even a cursory examination of the the Nifty Fifty , the stocks that drove US equities upwards in the early 1970s, reveals companies like Coca Cola and Gilette, where brand name was a significant contributor to value, as well as pharmaceutical companies like Bristol-Myers and Pfizer, which derived a large portion of their value from patents.

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Business Model Secrets: How Freebird Makes Biz Travel Hassle- And Fee-Free

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Bernstein told Webster that Freebird has been implemented across a wide range of companies – from the Fortune 500 to relatively small start-ups – and across a wide variety of verticals, including education, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and technology. “If So, we’ve concentrated our resources here.”. So, how does it work?

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

Because going back to our thematic investing, our portfolio is 80 percent concentrated in warehouses, rental housing, lab office space and hospitality asset. Like, if you think about — when I was growing up, all of the big pharmaceutical companies had these corporate campuses that were highly securitized, deep in suburbs.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. And those concentrated positions happen because they have high conviction that they’re in that group where it’s not stupid to think about where earnings will be 10 years out. This is what’s wrong with concentrating in the wrong stocks.