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"Bond Girl" on Chicago and the Quality of Credit Analysis in the Municipal Bond Market

MishTalk

On May 13, Moody's shocked the municipal bond market by downgrading Chicago to junk. Kristi Culpepper, AKA "Bond Girl" comments on the event in What Chicago’s Fiscal Emergency says about the Quality of Credit Analysis in the Municipal Bond Market. Rating actions tend to lag the market rather than lead it. of revenue.

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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. If there is a financial crisis, the stock market falls by half and the asset manager’s performance is in line with the stock market, they now make $500 million. Valuation of Asset Management Firms.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

For this reason, organizational transformation is uniquely suited to the analysis, prediction, and experimental research approach of the people analytics field. The transformation office approached the country finance leaders with their findings and made them partners in process improvement for the rest of the subsidiaries.

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List of strategy consulting firms in London

Tom Spencer

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Its management consulting services include CRM, finance and performance management, process and innovation performance, risk management, strategy, supply chain management, and talent and organisation performance services. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. in Management Consulting.

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Case Competition Tips & Tricks

Tom Spencer

Rather, a strong team will have competencies in diverse fields such as finance, strategic planning (SWOT, PEST, 5-Ps), public speaking, graphic design (creating a beautiful slide deck), and Excel (modeling things like valuations, sensitivity analysis, and graphs). However, you have to balance ideas that are too safe versus too extreme.

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia

Tom Spencer

Accenture offers management consulting services covering finance & performance management, talent & organisation performance, strategy, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. I came online looking for coys for benchmarking,what i got is pleasant and very useful. Website: www.atkearney.com. Oliver Wyman.