Corporate Finance Finance Market Risk 
Reynolds Holding
MAY 30, 2022
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) employs blockchain technology and smart contracts with the goal of enabling perfectly disintermediated financial markets. Cumming, DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University. This post comes to us from Paul P.
Global Finance
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Access to finance was a huge concern at the start of the pandemic [in 2020] as thoughts turned to the global financial crisis and a potential repeat of bank insolvency,” notes Kristen Roberts, partner and head of the London corporate debt practice at HSF. It’s a predicament that started to emerge as far back as 2018. Now it’s 13%.
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Global Finance
JUNE 6, 2024
Not only can market risk be better monitored, but market costs can be saved for participants: about $30 million so far, estimates CCDC. Papaya also integrates human resources and finance data through human capital management and enterprise resource planning systems to create a single source of truth for clients.
Brian DeChesare
JUNE 15, 2022
The debate about the front office, middle office, and back office in the finance industry is one of the sillier and more exhausting ones. First, note that these terms apply only to investment banks and related finance firms (private equity firms, hedge funds, etc.).
Brian DeChesare
APRIL 13, 2022
The short answer is “investment bankers, equity research professionals, and a mix of people from other finance roles.”. Probably 90% of hedge fund stock pitches use long/short equity or related strategies. And if you also include long-only hedge funds, you can add names like Baupost Group. Recruiting Into Long/Short Equity Funds: Who Gets In?
Brian DeChesare
AUGUST 31, 2022
Convertible Arbitrage Definition: Convertible arbitrage is a relative value strategy in which a hedge fund profits based on the pricing discrepancy between a company’s convertible bonds and its underlying stock; the fund exploits changes in volatility, credit quality, and interest rates to make money while minimizing overall market risk.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 28, 2024
In this post, I look at risk, a central theme in finance and investing, but one that is surprisingly misunderstood and misconstrued. That said, and notwithstanding decades of research and debate on the topic, there are still wide differences in how risk is defined and measured. What is risk?
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