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Risk Mitigation

Finvisage

Risk of Illicit financial activities seen at Patisserie Valerie could have been mitigated with our Treasury Management System. Finvisage provides automated customisable reports which provides appropriate time rationing among financial reporting and financial analysis.

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Musings on Markets: Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!

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That said, it is my experience with markets that has also made me skeptical about the over selling of both notions, since we have an entire branch of finance (behavioral finance/economics) that has developed to explain how more data does not always lead to better decisions and why crowds can often be collectively wrong.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

During 2022, the US treasury did not default, but an investor in a 10-year US treasury bond would have earned a return of -18% on his or her investment, as bond prices dropped. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).

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Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!

Musings on Markets

That said, it is my experience with markets that has also made me skeptical about the over selling of both notions, since we have an entire branch of finance (behavioral finance/economics) that has developed to explain how more data does not always lead to better decisions and why crowds can often be collectively wrong.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

The second is that there are great (and free) sources for macro economic data, ranging from the Federal Reserve (FRED) to the World Bank and I don’t see the point of replicating something that they already do well. Micro Data The focus of my data collection is understanding how companies are operating and how investors are pricing them.

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Transcript: Charlie Ellis

Barry Ritholtz

All you had to do as a money market fund manager is buying the standard stuff, Treasury bills, commercial paper and the like. Then you get something that’s got tremendous capacity to manage a larger and larger organization which Vanguard had to become in order to get the economic power that it has today.

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Country Risk: A July 2023 Update!

Musings on Markets

One is curiosity , as political and economic crises roll through regions of the world, roiling long-held beliefs about safe and risky countries. My suggestion is that for countries where recent political or economic events would lead you to believe that sovereign rating is dated, you should switch to using sovereign CDS spreads.