Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2017

Unger shared NACHA’s case study on how global pharmaceuticals company Merck optimized its performance by employing ISO 20022 XML for ACH payments. But it starts with the company wanting to invest in this, because they are doing a back-office conversion for a specific business reason.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The purchase builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the firm back then. Albert Bourla, the chief executive of Pfizer, told investors this week that the pharmaceutical company won’t be unveiling COVID-19 vaccine data prior to the Nov. 3 election. Trackers And Reports . In the U.S.,

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Future CFO

APRIL 11, 2021

High-growth, new economy companies will still be the most well-received investments given their important roles demonstrated during the pandemic, the firm noted. This indicates a 14% fall in number of IPOs, but an 842% surge in proceeds against 37 IPOs raising HK$14.1 Report highlights. billion (US$1.8 billion) in Q1 2020.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 22, 2023

Doesn’t mention that maybe outsourcing US drug manufacturing to China was a mistake. pic.twitter.com/zxZ2rKi4PR — Kawsachun News (@KawsachunNews) January 21, 2023 Coup leader calling for foreign military intervention?

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Measuring Profitability 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. The numbers yield interesting insights.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Investment Implications: Asset Classes, Geographies and Companies. The Lead In. Flight to Safety and Collectibles.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2019

It said there were “material discrepancies” between the numbers the company reported in April in its initial public offering (IPO) filing and the presentation. Citron claims the company inflated its active merchant numbers as well as its active customer base. The firm became well-known after it targeted Valeant, a pharmaceutical firm.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Rise of Intangibles While the debate about intangibles, and how best to value them, is relatively recent, it is unquestionable that intangibles have been a part of valuation, and the investment process, through history. With that said, it is clear that the debate about intangibles has become more intense in the last two decades.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 1, 2023

In addition to this, he has also held prominent positions in investment banking at Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers, and Bank of America. Kublall has also held various finance-related positions, including Investment Banking at JPMorgan and Corporate Strategy at J.Crew. Levine has been the company's corporate controller since 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When scanned, the barcodes provide information about where a product was manufactured, lot numbers, authorized distributors and safe use.”. In fact, medical items and pharmaceuticals are typically the most-seized products.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When scanned, the barcodes provide information about where a product was manufactured, lot numbers, authorized distributors and safe use.”. In fact, medical items and pharmaceuticals are typically the most-seized products.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The license, due to be introduced on January 1, 2019, will allow FinTech projects to accept public deposits, as long as they are not invested and no interest is paid on them. I have never invested in bitcoin, and therefore I never made the profit they say I did.”. I just want you to stop for a second. It is a scam,” he said.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

David Conrod, what a fascinating career in the world of capital raising and private equity from Guggenheim Partners to FocusPoint Capital, he really has seen just a little bit of everything and is very, very knowledgeable about how that side of the investment world works. HSBC sponsored the team to invest in India and South Asia.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

Citron said there were “material discrepancies” between the numbers the company reported in April in its initial public offering (IPO) filing and the presentation. It also claimed that Jumia inflated its active merchant numbers and its active customer base. The firm became well-known after it targeted Valeant , a pharmaceutical firm.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 20, 2021

There are other options embedded in the tax code allowing for tax credits and deductions for some investments and expenses, with sectors like real estate being prime beneficiaries. Ultimately, this is the number that matters most from a tax collection perspective.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

and that effect, as I have noted in my earlier discussions of narrative and numbers, can be all encompassing. Shannon Pratt, in his widely used work on valuing private companies, suggested a key person discount of between 10%-25%, though he left the number almost entirely to appraiser discretion.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Careem will now provide food delivery services in Dubai and Jeddah, but the company sees the service eventually expanding to include pharmaceuticals. Careem plans to invest a sizable amount of money into the new service — to the tune of $150 million. The benefits of scale work for some Uber Eats rivals, too.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

But a lesser-discussed market grabbed the largest investment of the week: logistics. A slew of existing backers boosted the investment as well. Rivigo focuses its B2B services on delivery and logistics for various verticals across India, including eCommerce and pharmaceutical firms. In total, companies landed more than $255.6

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The program starts and stops easily – displaying the numeric targets on-screen only when being accessed through voice commands – and the numbers disappear when a user touches the screen and stay gone until the Google Assistant is woken again. There have also been reports that the eCommerce giant is looking to get into pharmaceuticals.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. to 25% for the Eurozone. to 25% for the Eurozone. lower than the traded value of 4766.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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Future CFO

MAY 17, 2021

We’ve gone on to examine a greater number of issues and have experimented with robotic process automation (RPA) to undertake mass data extraction for analytics. Don’t get carried away and make huge investments. You need commitment from leadership to ensure consistent funding, while employing best practices for security and governance.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 9, 2022

. • Still in humble tapewatcher mode, let’s assume that wastewater is a good proxy for real case numbers (see next link). For all the peaks up to March 20, 2022, clinical case numbers and wastewater tracked very closely. However, at the top, you will notice a black line dropping precipitously: This is the number of sites sampled.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The acquisition of PillPack put Amazon in the online pharmaceutical business, and its addition of product insurance and extended warranties put it into the insurance business. It’s also where others, such as Kroger and Target, have stepped up their own investments in logistics to meet the consumer’s desire for order-ahead and delivery.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The numbers are indeed massive, however. Death rate ( Our World in Data ): Total : 1,096,717 – 1,095,646 = 1071 (1071 * 365 = 390,915, which is today’s LivingWith number (quite a bit higher than the minimizers would like, though they can talk themselves into anything. But the number of employees has fallen over 5 per cent.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Throw in the amount spent on pharmaceutical sleep aids worldwide each year, and “big nap” as an industry will be worth at least $76.7 The team at Sleepio believes their anti-insomnia app – which comes with a built-in cartoon therapist – is just the tool Americans need to get to bed on time and sleep the right number of hours.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Death rate ( Our World in Data ): Total : 1,116,095 – 1,115,748 = 347 (347 * 365 = 126,655 deaths per year, today’s YouGenicist number for “living with” Covid (quite a bit higher than the minimizers would like, though they can talk themselves into anything. This is entirely managements fault. Consider the field of medicine.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008. Data, in the absence of those frameworks, becomes just a bunch of numbers on a page.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

By 1957, the number of cases in the U.S. That’s because the pharmaceutical industry has made significant investments in technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to expedite that process. Investments in software scooped up the lion’s share of those dollars. had dropped dramatically to fewer than 6,000.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

He was the chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch where he worked for more than 20 years. If you’re at all interested in thinking about asset allocation, top-down analysis, how to think about the world of investing, not as a stock picker, but as a broad macro perspective, none better than Rich Bernstein.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Tell us about that.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 14, 2024

Wall Street Journal ) • As Kushner’s Investment Firm Steps Out, the Potential Conflicts Are Growing : Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners has invested more than $1.2 It’s a common story across the pharmaceutical industry. Last season, that number was 497. Here’s why. ( New York Times ) • Big Pharma Stocks Need a Rethink.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And it’s a story that is so much more than numbers. Bethany McLean: 00:10:49 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, it was fascinating, and this was highlighted or first written about in a really good New Yorker piece about what San Francisco was doing and why its numbers were so low. Maybe this is my way of unleashing my inner demons.

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