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European Banks Pursue Mergers To Gain Competitive Edge

Global Finance

Ultimately the key issue is valuation. The price, or valuation, paid for an asset is the definitive arbiter of investment return and the buyers clearly feel they were able to pay prices that gave them downside protection, and yet leave them with upside potential. trillion, and the China Construction Bank Corp. that gathered $5.4

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10 Types of Financial Models

The Finance Weekly

Business Valuation - Determining the value of assets or entire companies. Next, use an appropriate valuation method for each division to estimate their individual worth. The DCF model is flexible, but small changes in assumptions—like the discount rate or expected cash flows—can significantly impact the final valuation.

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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

The Big Picture

Velina Peneva : I think that the, the clients understand that when you’re thinking about portfolio construction, you can have only so much allocation to a given geography redundancy to a different industry sector. So of course, what the Fed will do impacts markets, impacts valuations, impacts interest rates.

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Crafting Strategic Visions with Roger Castle

CFO Talks

His approach involves working backward from desired outcomes, such as an EBITDA goal or exit valuation, and breaking these down into actionable steps and KPIs. For instance, if the goal is to grow and exit, we work backward from the desired valuation. What EBITDA profitability does the company need at the expected valuation multiple?

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

Barry Ritholtz

And so that opened a whole new world for me in thinking about asset allocation and thinking about advice and thinking about active and passive constructions together, thinking about alternatives. But we think that that valuations are there. Where they could, you know, kind of place best of breed product with their clients.

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Powering The Global Energy Transition

Global Finance

Fitch Ratings predicts that the volume of curtailed energy there could rise over the next few years due to the level of intermittent renewable generation in the countrys energy mix and the time needed to construct new transmission lines. Brazil is working to address this.

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Transcript: Apollo’s Torsten Slok

Barry Ritholtz

But still he’s communicating how wrong everybody else is and how right he’s been and why you should be pretty constructive about the state of both employment and credit and the stock market he has. So Barry Ritholtz : You’ve been very constructive on the economy for the past two years. He has absolutely been dead on.

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