CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook’s recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 30, 2021

Companies in the region plan to give employees larger rises next year as they recover from the economic fallout of the pandemic and face mounting challenges attracting and retaining employees, according to the latest Salary Budget Planning Report by the company. Average salary increases projected at 3.7% for 2021 and 3.7%

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

However, the initial, rapid economic rebound is giving way to a patchier, more tenuous recovery, as the pandemic proves hard to contain, the credit rating agency added. Social issues will attract further prominence in 2021 in public policies, corporate strategies and investment decisions, according to Moody’s.

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Future CFO

APRIL 11, 2021

The IPO markets in Hong Kong and China are well supported to continue to perform vibrantly in the rest of 2021, thanks to the ample liquidity from various monetary and economic easing measures in the world to dissipate the negative impact brought by the ongoing pandemic, said Deloitte China recently when releasing an outlook report. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products and, in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million and had more than 8,000 employees protecting its store from fraud and abuse, including counterfeiting and IP infringing products. “As In line with Amazon’s past joint litigation, Valentino will receive any proceeds from this suit.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

While Infibeam continues to invest in FinTech future solution[s], the digitalization of the traditional financial sector, especially the global trade finance sector, has opened an opportunity for more secure and encrypted global FinTech platform[s].

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook's recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Stepping back a bit, one claim that climate change advocates have made not just about fossil fuel companies, but about all businesses, is that i nvestors are underestimating the effects that climate change will have on economic systems and on value.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

TruTag offered no immediate comment, but news of the funding round comes not only amid an ongoing push to enable more online pharmaceutical sales and delivery, but also an increasing focus on the global problem of counterfeit goods. In fact, medical items and pharmaceuticals are typically the most-seized products. Counterfeit Trends.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

TruTag offered no immediate comment, but news of the funding round comes not only amid an ongoing push to enable more online pharmaceutical sales and delivery, but also an increasing focus on the global problem of counterfeit goods. In fact, medical items and pharmaceuticals are typically the most-seized products. Counterfeit Trends.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

What government wouldn’t want the infusion of investments and innovation centers that often grease the rails running under cross-border deals? The former was an objectively economic issue. After all, what shopper doesn’t like same-day delivery and biannually upgradeable consumer electronics?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

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.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The emergence of these models reveals that the standard measure of GDP totally ignores the economic value consumers get from all the free stuff. Because of that perk, the economic value of making it easier for Venmo and P2P networks to move money between parties isn’t captured anywhere: It’s a big zero as far as most economists are concerned.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

David Conrod, what a fascinating career in the world of capital raising and private equity from Guggenheim Partners to FocusPoint Capital, he really has seen just a little bit of everything and is very, very knowledgeable about how that side of the investment world works. HSBC sponsored the team to invest in India and South Asia.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 20, 2021

There are other options embedded in the tax code allowing for tax credits and deductions for some investments and expenses, with sectors like real estate being prime beneficiaries. It thus weights bigger companies more than smaller companies. billion in accrual taxes and $15.98 billion in cash taxes.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

As someone who teaches corporate finance, I have always tried to pass on the message, especially to those who are headed to finance jobs at companies or investment banks, that of all of the players in an organization, finance people are among the most replaceable, and thus least likely to be key people.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

Greece has seen its ups and downs over the last decade when it comes to economic strength. The European Investment Fund (EIF) via the JERMIE (Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium Enterprises) initiative allocated around €50 million to four programs between 2013 and 2015. Here is an excerpt of the conversation.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 19, 2023

Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Investment Lessons from 400 Years of “Confusion of Confusions” Three Hundred and Thirty-Five years ago, in 1688, Joseph de la Vega wrote, “Confusion de Confusiones”, considered to be worlds first book on stock trading.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

He was the chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch where he worked for more than 20 years. If you’re at all interested in thinking about asset allocation, top-down analysis, how to think about the world of investing, not as a stock picker, but as a broad macro perspective, none better than Rich Bernstein. BERNSTEIN: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Things get worse at one of the companies that I’ve invested in. I’m curious how your investing philosophy has evolved over, over the past 30 plus years.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 14, 2024

Wall Street Journal ) • As Kushner’s Investment Firm Steps Out, the Potential Conflicts Are Growing : Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners has invested more than $1.2 It’s a common story across the pharmaceutical industry. economic and racial tensions, according to a trove of internal Kremlin documents. Here’s why. (

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 22, 2023

health department warns of drug-resistant gonorrhea strain Boston.com Davos The ‘greatest tragedy’ would be if central banks don’t finish the job on inflation, Larry Summers says CNBC (Kevin W) World Economic Forum hemorrhoid, Chrystia Freeland, thinks the middle class makes too much money. The WEF is as evil as you think.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

From the eighteenth century onward, the increasing complexity of economic and political institutions and the increasing abstraction of governance has tended to diffuse impunity from individuals to impersonal forces like “markets.” Employment Situation: “United States Initial Jobless Claims” [ Trading Economics ]. Stats Watch.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Inflation: “United States Producer Price Inflation MoM” [ Trading Economics ]. Cost of services went up 0.4%, the biggest gain in three months, led by securities brokerage, dealing, investment advice, and related services, which jumped 11.3%.”. * * *. Thanks, elites, good job on the “moral obligations.”. * * *. Transmission.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Manufacturing: “United States Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index” [ Trading Economics ]. Gary Kelly, and the new CEO, and corporate barons have completely gutted the philosophy Herb believed in, which was investing in employees. Stats Watch. in December of 2022 from -14.4 This is entirely managements fault. Consider the field of medicine.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And you know, a bad diet tends to be associated with lower economic strata. 00:16:33 And then they have to explain to their shareholders, oh, we invested all this money in this and it didn’t actually happen. You mentioned Barry Ritholtz: 00:09:53 [Speaker Changed] Diabetes and high blood pressure in particular. Right, right.

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