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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Brian DeChesare

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. You may have more options in certain groups, such as Treasury.

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The Price of Risk: With Equity Risk Premiums, Caveat Emptor!

Musings on Markets

If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums, which I believe lie at the center of almost every substantive debate in markets and investing. How, you may ask, can equity risk premiums be that divergent, and does that imply that anything goes?

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will begin by chronicling the damage done to equities during 2022, before putting the year in historical context, and then examine how developments during the year have affected expectations for the future. Actual Returns Your returns on equities come in one of two forms. at the start of that year.

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SEC Chair Speaks About the Treasury Markets and the Debt Ceiling Discussions

Reynolds Holding

3] The century of progress that began here in Chicago has lived up to FDR’s vision. 5] After all we achieved to reform the swaps markets, Scott O’Malia—your CEO and a former fellow CFTC Commissioner—has asked me to return for yet another lively Chicago discussion, this time about our work in the $24 trillion Treasury markets.

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Data Update 3 for 2023: Inflation and Interest Rates

Musings on Markets

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. As a result, treasury bond investors faced one of their worst years in history, losing close to a fifth of their principal, as bonds were repriced.

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ValuAsia Connect Webinar Series: Financial Instruments

IVSC

He leads a team of quants, focusing on the valuations of complex securities and instruments issued by start-up companies to venture capital and private equity investors. Kwan Eng is a Chartered Valuer and Appraiser, and a Certified International Treasury Management professional.

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Market Bipolarity: Exuberance versus Exhaustion!

Musings on Markets

We started the year with significant uncertainty about whether the surge in inflation seen in 2022 would persist as well as about whether the economy was headed into a recession. The NASDAQ also gave back gains in the third quarter, but is up 27.27% for the year, but those gaudy numbers obscure a sobering reality. billion.