Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Along those lines, here are in chronological order, the thinkers who have helped shape how I view the world view, including how I philosophically think about the economy, markets, and investing. 10 Quotes That Shaped My Investment Philosophy 1. Sturgeon’s law suggest 300,00 of them are not crap – and that number seems generous.

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Global Finance

JUNE 17, 2024

A 10-year veteran at DBS Bank, Karoonyavanich recently expanded his role to cover all Equity Capital Markets business for the bank globally when the firm merged its equities, fixed income and brokerage businesses to form a new Investment Banking unit. Its Hong Kong market share surged from a mere 0.2% in the same period.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 6, 2023

Having $2,000 to $3,000 to invest is a good feeling, but how you allocate those funds can impact your finances more than you might realize. Before you decide where to invest $2,000 to $3,000, think about when you’ll need the money. Before you decide where to invest $2,000 to $3,000, think about when you’ll need the money.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 17, 2024

Nonetheless, fewer than 10% of SEC-registered investment advisers report using them, even though the SEC’s updated investment adviser marketing rule allows financial advisors to proactively encourage testimonials (from clients), use endorsements (from non-clients), and highlight their own ratings on various third-party review sites.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

 At the Money: Is War Good for Markets? February 14, 2024) What does history tell us about how war impacts the stock market? Can these patterns inform us of future bull market behavior? To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your investments, let’s bring in Jeff Hirsch. Jeff Hirsch : Yeah. As vicious.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

For much of the last two years, rather than teach my classes in a classroom, I taught my classes from my home office, making a few low-cost, low-tech investments to improve my set up. I have always described myself as a teacher , first and foremost, but like many of you, COVID has been a disruptor.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. Not surprisingly, Moneyball has found its way into business and investing as well.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook’s recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In response, I have been told that the problem is not with the idea of ESG, but in its measurement and application, and that impact investing is the solution to both market and society's problems. It is human nature to want to make the world a better place, but does impact investing have the impact that it aims to create?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 3, 2024

At The Money: Contrarian Investing. January 3, 2024) Is contrarian investing a solid strategy, or a fool’s errand? Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global, Morgan Stanley Investment Management We discuss why it is so difficult to fight the crowd, and identify when the crowd is right and when they have gone mad.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But where should you invest your $15,000? 16 Ways to Invest $15,000 in 2023. To help you figure out how to invest $15k, I compiled a list of 16 of the best options. To help you figure out how to invest $15k, I compiled a list of 16 of the best options. Auto-Pilot Investing. Invest in Fractional Shares.

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 17, 2023

Amid a tight job market and low unemployment rates, a significant amount of the U.S. Social Security Number (making them effectively off-limits to individuals with noncitizen dependents) and necessitate a different approach to college savings than is common for U.S. on a ‘temporary’ visa.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 15, 2024

Growing an advisory firm is no easy task – and advisors who start firms often have few resources to spare (beyond their own knowledge and time), face huge to-do lists, and are required to wear a number of hats. Read More.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

Country Risk: Drivers and Measures. An investment in Nigeria or Turkey clearly exposes a firm or investor to more risks than an otherwise similar investment in Germany or Canada, but why? Country Risk: Equity Risk . Please do not attach any political significance to my country groupings, or take them personally.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Moreover, current market conditions drive private fund managers to hone in on their cash management practices , with many turning to strategies more commonly used by their corporate counterparts. Money market funds are “particularly attractive” as they generate yield on idle cash and are highly liquid, according to Quinn.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 3, 2023

Global VC investment dropped for the sixth consecutive quarter in Q2’2023 – falling from US$86.2 In Asia, VC investment fell for the 6th consecutive quarter, reaching only $20.1 The Americas accounted for the largest share of VC investment with $42.9 The Americas accounted for the largest share of VC investment with $42.9

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 31, 2023

If 2022 was an unsettling year for equities, as I noted in my second data post, it was an even more tumultuous year for the bond market. The rise in rates transmitted to corporate bond market rates, with a concurrent rise in default spreads exacerbating the damage to investors. in 2022, higher than the 1- 1.5%

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 8, 2023

In the early days of investing, stocks were often evaluated in a vacuum: Investors assessed the plusses and minuses of each company’s stock based on its own merits, with little consideration of the relationship between one stock’s performance and that of the market as a whole.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

MercadoLibre , which operates platforms for buying and selling goods across Central and South America, is eyeing an investment in Brazil next year that would be even bigger than its $716 million investment this year, Bloomberg reported. million on a peak day last year. “We

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

One of the big news stories of last week was Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO of Twitter, and the market’s response to that news was to push up Twitter’s stock price by almost 10%. The Mythology of the Great CEO Are there a set of qualities that make for a great CEO?

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The numbers don’t lie -- or so the saying goes – but they rarely tell the whole story either, just like how the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) encompasses more than just finance and accounting. It used to be pretty much all about the numbers – but the narrative has changed. billion Specialty and Automotive Lighting business unit.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

billion in venture capital investments between January and September 2020, according to a press release from London & Partners emailed to PYMNTS. London is in second place globally with those numbers, the release stated, with first place going to San Francisco with $5.1 billion in investments. billion in investments.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

They’ve identified three areas where organizations need to focus and invest to keep DEI momentum going: connecting a good strategy to the right accountability; collecting and analyzing the right data; and truly empowering DEI leaders. Empowering the DEI leader requires a real investment of time, money, and access.

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Driven Insights

JUNE 11, 2022

One of the most critical decisions a SaaS founder or CEO must make is when to invest in scaling the business. When the timing is right, a strategic investment in sales and marketing will fuel exponential revenue growth. But, when the timing is off, a SaaS company can quickly burn through cash and find itself out of runway.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on private equity firms and middle-market companies is multifaceted and gaining momentum. Meanwhile, Deloitte Private’s 2023 Mid-market technology trends report reveals that AI has become the top tech investment priority for mid-market companies. Learn more below.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

When it comes to sustainability reporting, only a small number of mid-market companies are doing it, said Grant Thornton recently. Grant Thornton’s International Business Report asked around 5,000 mid-market businesses in 28 countries what they were reporting in relation to their emissions. Survey highlights.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

I also used the banking framework to argue that good banks have stickier deposits, with a higher precent of these deposits being non-interest bearing, that they invest in loans and investment securities on which they earn interest rates that cover and exceed the default risk in these investments.

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Fox Corporate Finance

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Investment into US and European cannabis companies have been continuously increasing over the past years. Whereas 72 venture capital transactions were conducted in 2016, the number of transactions in 2021 (YTD) have increased by almost. The post VC market for cannabis gains momentum appeared first on FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2024

Much of it reflects the bad ideas and numbers, and worse advice, that float around Wall Street. Those two young men in Chicago in 1974 had made one of the most spectacular market calls in history.” To say nothing of a contrarian but accurate extrapolation of future market returns). A lot of it has not aged well.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 8, 2022

Good marketing based on using impactful messages for consumers is a foundational element for many types of businesses that allows companies to define and convey their unique value. scheduling a complimentary consultation or downloading a free sample financial plan).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Wall Street Journal cited unnamed sources over the weekend as saying that Affirm decided to push its IPO off until at least January, apparently to let markets calm down and avoid the massive first-day “pops” Airbnb and DoorDash recently saw. Some market watchers attribute the gains to what’s called the “Robinhood Effect.”.

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Future CFO

JUNE 14, 2022

Technology deficit in the boardroom is impacting enterprise investment and digital transformation, said Deloitte recently when releasing results of a survey of 500 directors and C-suite executives. Framing tech investments as business investments is vital to securing a competitive advantage and capturing more market share,” adds Lillie.

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Future CFO

APRIL 18, 2021

Liquidity-fuelled IPO markets in the traditional slow Q1, with 430 deals raising US$105.6 The deal number and proceed amount in the quarter represents increases of 85% and 271% year-on-year respectively, which makes the past quarter the best-performing Q1 in the last 20 years, according to the company. in proceeds. in proceeds.

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