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CFOs: Do you drive returns that exceed the cost of capital?

Future CFO

Yet CFOs who model their costs around the differentiating factors unique to their organisations secure on average a greater excess ROIC versus those who focus on extrinsic factors, Boldt pointed out. They also exhibit more resilience in the face of unexpected events, such as the economic crisis resulting from the current pandemic , he added.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

When I was at GMO, we — a colleague and I ran a sort of quantitative analysis of speculative bubbles and we crunched, produced my system date 10,000 years of data of various commodity markets, and real estate markets, and stock markets around the world. All our economic actions are taking place across time. RITHOLTZ: Yes.