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

CFO News Room

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that as part of the ongoing integration between the merged companies, Charles Schwab plans to transition advisors currently on the TD Ameritrade custodial platform to Schwab’s platform over Labor Day weekend 2023.

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

CFO News Room

I have seen this group target companies before, using the game plan that they are using with Adani, but their typical target firms are usually much smaller, under-the-radar firms, where public market investors may have missed troubling aspects of operations.

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

Musings on Markets

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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The Indian Smartphone Revolution: Paytm's Coming of Age IPO!

Musings on Markets

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. The last is the operating margin , it operating income (or loss) as a percent of operating income each year.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

The biggest winner, and this should come as no surprise, has been technology, with a return of 43% in 2023, and almost entirely recovering its losses in 2022. The first half of 2023 was a reminder that no matter who you are as an analyst, and how well thought through your investment thesis is, the market has other plans.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

And it became the most profitable private equity investment ever made and — it is true. And Blackstone’s funds through that period, generated substantial profits because we had made those good choices, not just about the investments — RITHOLTZ: Right. MCCARTHY: That is what’s most important. Cambridge U.K.,

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Transcript: Mathieu Chabran

Barry Ritholtz

Was the plan when you were going to school in Paris always to go into finance, or were you originally leaning in another direction? And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. RITHOLTZ: Yes, I can imagine. Well guess what?