CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

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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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Read the analysis about these announcements in this month’s column, and a discussion of more trends in advisor technology, including: eMoney Advisor launches a new Explore feature that helps clients move past just planning for their goals and instead have the opportunity to see what other goals might even be possible in the first place.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

I end the class with a corporate finance version of valuation, where I tie inputs into value (cash flows, growth and risk) to investment, financing and dividend decisions. Valuation : It is unfortunate, but for most people, the vision that comes to mind when I say that I teach valuation is excel spreadsheets and high profile company names.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Grab had a $14 billion valuation in March and in 2018 acquired Uber’s share of the Southeast Asia market. The startup is also planning to earmark $150 million for additional research into artificial intelligence (AI). Tan said Grab is concentrating on its customers’ most immediate needs. “We The sale gave Uber a 23.2

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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. To get from these numbers to a value per share, I use the existing share count, in conjunction with the information in the prospectus that the company plans to raise ?

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

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. trillion in the first six months of 2023, 97.2% trillion increase in value for all US equities.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

What, what was the career plan? And speaking of the.com implosion, like Microsoft via a case study where we, in previous strategies, we held Microsoft for a very long time, that’s where the valuation could help us in the.com bus. It’s great to be here. Let, let, let’s start there. 00:18:41 [Speaker Changed] Yep.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. In 2010, Michael was recognized with one of the FPA’s “Heart of Financial Planning” awards for his dedication and work in advancing the profession.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

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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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 12, 2022

If you are planning to travel on Xmas, do consider your plans carefully. * * *. • December 5: • California data point (1): 1/ SARS-CoV-2 concentrations are skyrocketing in wastewater across California. I would bet that speckling of red in Utah is sky country. Stay safe when travelling. pic.twitter.com/h8nki3QoHx.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I think it was just a bit of poor planning more than anything else. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective? And like all things, it took longer, was more complex. NORTON: No.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

While the risks — and concerns — posed by a highly concentrated customer base are legitimate, they are expected to spread out over time, given the fact that Affirm has thousands of merchant relationships now offering its BNPL financing option. Read More On Affirm: Affirm IPO Now On Track To Raise More Than $1.1

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Because going back to our thematic investing, our portfolio is 80 percent concentrated in warehouses, rental housing, lab office space and hospitality asset. MCCARTHY: — and really concentrated the business in those best markets, and then helped to grow. MCCARTHY: That is what’s most important. Cambridge U.K.,

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. I think 401(k) plans are starting to use ETFs more broadly. BERRUGA: You know, great question. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Was that the plan or was he just going to announce it? That was never part of the plan, didn’t happen. It’s part of their own tax planning. What’s the valuation? ” One about five years ago, I’m planning a trip to Silicon Valley. SEIDES: I was independent. SEIDES: Oh no.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

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?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

What was the original career plan? 00:09:37 [Speaker Changed] So again, I was on the avatar side of this y avatar broader organization, which was institutional money management, managing money for a lot of large corporate plans and foundations and endowments. You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And the division that I was in was below plan. 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. Real money.

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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. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What was the original career plan? And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. Let’s start out talking a little bit about your background. You, you graduate from Cornell Summa Laude with Distinction Phi Beta Kappa, all the good stuff.

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