Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

The dividend principle, which is the focus of this post is built on a very simple principle, which is that if a company is unable to find investments that make returns that meet its hurdle rate thresholds, it should return cash back to the owners in that business.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

And we had prioritized all our strategic plans, we had to figure out how to get them done while people were remote. But the true change comes when, hey, you know what, those loyal to that technological change figure out over not one, two, but three, five years, how to drive change and how to leverage it. That means a low hurdle rate.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. In 2010, Michael was recognized with one of the FPA’s “Heart of Financial Planning” awards for his dedication and work in advancing the profession.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

What was the original career plan? SALISBURY: Honestly, I didn’t really have a long-term plan. SALISBURY: Yes, I’d love to tell you there was some great master plan. A great example, you know, some of these things you can plan for and some you can’t. You begin in audit practice at KPMG.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I mean, I didn’t want to blow my own trumpet up too much because most of the positions were in place, the quality funds, which more defensive and less leveraged, and low allocation to — a relatively low allocation to equities, and then the hedge funds sort of long/short positions that benefited in the financial crisis.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

What was the original career plan? There was hardly any time for, for planning. 00:26:19 [Speaker Changed] It, it’s, it’s usually it is aggressive shorts from leveraged funds on s and p futures. And I think you will also, with no further ado, my conversation with B of A Securities, Steven Sutt Meyer.

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