CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

The first is the return that can be earned on guaranteed investments , i.e., US treasury bills and bonds, for instance, if you are a investor in US dollar, since it is a measure of what someone who takes no or very low risk can expect to earn. There are two macro factors that will come into play, and both are in play in markets today.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Editor’s note: For our Female Leadership in Finance Series, FutureCFO editor Teresa Leung recently had a chat with Sereen Teoh (pictured below), CFO at BIG Loyalty. An effective leadership team depends on the CEO and CFO being a great double act. FutureCFO: What are your responsibilities as the CFO at BIG Loyalty?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

RITHOLTZ: We’ll talk a little bit about leadership and crew development a little later. So let’s discuss leadership and what you do to develop crew members and to identify and foster other people’s leadership skills. So, Ken ended up being one of the best bosses I’ve ever had in my career.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

The first is the return that can be earned on guaranteed investments , i.e., US treasury bills and bonds, for instance, if you are a investor in US dollar, since it is a measure of what someone who takes no or very low risk can expect to earn. There are two macro factors that will come into play, and both are in play in markets today.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, for example, the treasury was thinking about moving to direct deposit, but they wanted to know how much it was gonna cost them because direct deposit, they, they, they, they, the money clears, you know, sorry, almost instantly, right? So they wanna know how many days does it take a, a treasury check to get back to us.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

First time in decades, treasuries and investment grade corporates, it’s, it’s an attractive yield at five 5.5%. Yeah, 00:25:49 [Speaker Changed] It’s, it’s from an absolute return standpoint, treasuries IG corporates are high yield bonds are more attractive than they’ve been in very long time.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

Now we have an environment wherein essentially hold to maturity risk-free treasuries and things like, you know, money market funds, a lot of money has, has gone back in that direction. Obviously, you know, geopolitics and the election and black swan risks are always the potential, but I think sentiment and valuation.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But since you mentioned getting return on the risk you take, how do you think about duration when the three-month Treasury is more or less the same or better than the 10-year? Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. RIEDER: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s just a fascinating conversation about looking at the world from both bottoms up and top-down, as well as thinking about what valuations are like, how likely are macro events, the impact you’re getting not just the return on capital, but as famously said in fixed income, a return of your capital. Treasury, the OFAC restrictions.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

00:38:35 [Speaker Changed] So, so tell us a little bit about the leadership of Tether. And, and here you referenced this in the book, but their business model now with Fed funds over 5%, you could get Riskless treasuries just about 5%. Put it in Riskless Treasuries. Their business model is collect $85 billion.

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