VCFO

JANUARY 27, 2022

In an inflationary environment, if you provide your customers credit terms, intentionally or not, you are making a sale in today’s dollars that will result in you being paid with less valuable dollars at a later date. Restructuring a company in terms of the debt capital stack, takes time. Leverage Your Relationships.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” Cean: Yeah. We met at an insurance agency.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

The planet’s largest retailer by sales crushed their way through Q2, with bigger than expected gains in revenue, earnings, same-store sales and eCommerce sales than analysts were predicting before the numbers hit the wires. The headline number was the highly watched same-store sales figure. That picked up 4.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

Nearly 1 in 5 sales of the company’s products are made in a Toys R Us store. after failing to restructure its debt or find a buyer, Reuters reported. Since a leveraged buyout, Toys R Us has been burdened with over $5 billion in debt. We’re putting a for sale sign on everything,” Brandon told employees, according to WSJ.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

General Mills is investing in kale to sprout growth , Mattel tapped a Google executive for its new CEO and handbag companies like Fendi are leaning on a pompom add-on to spur sales. In the new year, it seems very fashionable for retailers to re-think global growth.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

According to Christy of S&P, retailers typically open new stores to offset bleaker same-store sales. billion leveraged buyout in 2013. The company reported growth of 14 percent compared to a year ago in direct-to-consumer sales due in large part to expansion of its retail network and increasing online sales.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2018

In 1957, Lazarus renamed the company Toys R Us and adopted a supermarket-style approach to toy sales, with concrete or tile flooring and aisles upon aisles of children’s playthings. Department stores saw seasonal toy sales flounder due to the year-round demand (and fulfillment) created by this industry giant. Toys R Us Is Born.

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What's unique about Melody, though, is how after her first decade in practice, she quadrupled her revenue in the subsequent 2 years by restructuring her business model from standalone hourly engagements and project planning fees to a more holistic wealth management offering that combined investment management and financial planning for a single AUM (..)

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

All of this [bad] news is expected to impact the rather complex investment deal that Uber and a SoftBank-led consortium are trying to close in order to add $7 billion to the $10 billion flow into Uber’s coffers. It also had a lot of people asking what’s next for a company presently valued at nearly $70 billion that has raised over $11.5

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I used to sell units in an onsite sales condo new development on the Upper East Side. And if you actually stood back and looked at a chart of what was happening, prices were going straight up and sales were going straight down. And you could see it because sales actually lead price direction by a year in many cases.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

licensing decisions, are likely to face “significant costs linked to the restructuring of their supply chains.”. In 2021, that was $523 billion worth of sales, which accounted for nearly 40 percent of South Korea’s semiconductor exports. and the limited investments made so far in diversifying the sources. “At

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Bill Cohan is a fixture on Wall Street for a long time, both as an investment banker at Lazard Freres and eventually Merrill and JPMorgan Chase, as well as an author. RITHOLTZ: So, you ended up becoming an investment banker.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Banking Investments Restructuring 101

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Now, there was one really important part of, of that as part of my job training, I was sent to the big sales offices to learn how the product was sold. One of the big sales offices was out in Long Island in Garden City. It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk.

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