CFO News Room

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the four decades that I have been teaching finance, I have always started my discussion of risk with a Chinese symbols for crisis, as a combination of danger plus opportunity: Over the decades, though, I have been corrected dozens of times on how the symbols should be written, with each correction being challenged by a new reader.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the four decades that I have been teaching finance, I have always started my discussion of risk with a Chinese symbols for crisis, as a combination of danger plus opportunity: Over the decades, though, I have been corrected dozens of times on how the symbols should be written, with each correction being challenged by a new reader.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The second is that borrowing money will increase perceived default risk, and if the company is rated, lower ratings, and that too is true, but borrowing money at a BBB rating, with the tax benefit incorporated, might still yield a lower cost of funding that staying at a AA rating, with no debt in use.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. Why does the risk-free rate matter? and the reverse will occur, when risk-free rates drop.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

The first is that I do not have a macro focus, and my interests in macro variables occur only in the context of corporate finance or valuation issues. I also report estimates of the default spreads based upon current yields on bonds in different ratings classes and the current riskfree rate.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

SAVI is one of these women in the world of finance who is a powerhouse. She is one of the few people who combine quantitative investing with behavioral finance. They’ve completely accepted me for who I am as the dark, you know, dark art of finance person. So I got a job in finance. They got bought by Bank America.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So, you know, after I, I, so what I did was I was looking around for finance jobs, and obviously you’re not gonna hire, you know, a pre-med bio major, an English writing major. A finance m and a right’s the way that’s how it goes. I had no finance background. I, but I managed to jumped my score, right.

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