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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

Investment banking forms part of the financial services industry involved in the underwriting, distribution, and trading of securities. What Investment Bankers Do There are several key roles within investment banking, including corporate finance, sales and trading, and research.

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Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. For alternative asset managers such as hedge funds, their cash flows may be cut by more than half as profits fall and they collect a smaller fee from their profit participation agreements.

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Bank of Japan Seeks to End Stimulus, Currency Market in Disbelief

MishTalk

Bank of Japan Confident Reuters reports Bank of Japan, more confident about recovery, quietly eyes stimulus exit. The Bank of Japan has begun shifting its focus from supporting growth to ways of phasing out its massive stimulus, taking first tentative steps towards a potentially momentous move for the world economy.

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Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?

Harvard Business

Also, as we explained in an earlier article , we believe that being an established CEO of a small firm involves much less angst than being a senior member of a consulting, investment banking, or private equity firm. This leaves us only with the cash flows that occur between the purchase and the eventual sale.

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Housing Starts in China Plunge 25%; Did China's Property Bubble Finally Burst?

MishTalk

Retail sales also grew more slowly than expected in April, and the furniture market stalled as fewer families moved into new homes. Financial Vulnerabilities in China In its May Financial Stability Report , the Reserve Bank of New Zealand warns about financial vulnerabilities in China. Here we are again, in another slowdown.

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Unrealistic Expectations

Martinka Consulting

I’m seeing more and more owners of small businesses ($3-10 million or so in sales) thinking their company is going to be priced the same as a $50-100 million firm. Now what adds some sanity to this are the banks. In the last few weeks owners (of companies doing $3-10 million in sales. Most banks minimum is 1.25:1

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015).