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Highest Paid CFOs in the World in 2024

The Finance Weekly

In a nutshell, companies are starting to view CFOs as smart investments rather than just expenses. She led Oracle's transition to cloud computing which skyrocketed the company's industry status and has successfully guided Oracle through challenging economic periods. Highest Paid CFOs in the World in 2024 1.

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A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!

Musings on Markets

The recent troubles in entertainment, though, reflect a longer term disruption that has occurred in the business, with the rise of streaming as an alternative to the traditional platforms for movies and television shows. With Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime, the game is even more difficult to gauge.

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Alibaba eCommerce Rival Pinduoduo Secures $1B In Funding

PYMNTS

The company isn’t profitable yet, and probably won’t be for a while. Since PDD went public, it has been hit with net losses of $981.4 Q4 revenue jumped 697 percent year-on-year to $491 million, although the operating losses increased as well. The social component is especially popular with women. million in Q2 and $159.9

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree?

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The Difference Makers: Key Person(s) Valuation

Musings on Markets

We will end with a discussion of how enterprises try, with mixed effects, to build protections against the loss of key personnel. In sports and entertainment, for instance, business can gain value from having a celebrity representing them in a paid or unpaid capacity. Who is a key person?

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

Barry Ritholtz

So, so let’s talk a little bit about your, your background ba in economics from Dartmouth. And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. It’s a pleasure to be here. You get a Stanford MBA. That’s pretty reason.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.