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Musings on Markets: A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition

CFO News Room

If your query is why I would continue to teach rather than seek out more lucrative careers in investing or banking, my answer is a simple one. and uses that endgame to cast light on the investing, financing and dividend decisions that all businesses, small or large, private or public, have to make. .

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A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition

Musings on Markets

If your query is why I would continue to teach rather than seek out more lucrative careers in investing or banking, my answer is a simple one. and uses that endgame to cast light on the investing, financing and dividend decisions that all businesses, small or large, private or public, have to make.

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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

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In fact, I concluded the post by arguing that investors in Facebook were pricing in their belief that the billions of dollars the company had invested in the Metaverse would be wasted, and argued that Facebook faced some of the blame, for not telling a compelling story to back the investment.

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META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

Musings on Markets

In fact, I concluded the post by arguing that investors in Facebook were pricing in their belief that the billions of dollars the company had invested in the Metaverse would be wasted, and argued that Facebook faced some of the blame, for not telling a compelling story to back the investment.

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Transcript: Sarah Kirshbaum Levy, CEO Betterment

Barry Ritholtz

Full disclosure, my firm, OLTs Wealth Management, works with Betterment, which powers our digital investment platform. And have the ability to candidly, to invest and lose money in ways that the incumbents can’t. We, we had 60 or 70% of all kids entertainment time was spent on Nickelodeon. They were, they were a platform.

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Transcript: Ken Kencel

Barry Ritholtz

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. KENCEL: So — RITHOLTZ: Why are they investing in mid-market U.S.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

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.