BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Yet that income stream is weakening, as low-risk investment yields dip toward 0% and central banks continue to drain the bond markets. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 30, 2020

I won’t be disingenuous by marketing services when most of us are in survival mode so I will make all readers of this newsletter an offer: If you have questions about what to do, how to handle things, need a sounding board, or simply someone to vent with call me for free telephone counsel. Whatever your business is, be doing marketing.

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 18, 2021

Operating experience – Sam said be careful if you don’t have operating experience. You must use free cash flow to truly calculate ROI. We used to call this a mini-audit (not as sexy as QofE or proof of cash) and it means tying the money on the bank statements to sales reports and financial statements.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Pre-Great Recession - banks competed for business acquisition loans and I remember one client’s summary that had eight banks, eight approvals, seven banks using the SBA loan guarantee program (called SBA loans from now on) and my client took the non-SBA offer. Buyers, banks and especially sellers! Who benefits?

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 21, 2015

In the past I’ve written about how low interest rates and bank using the SBA guarantee program and its low down payment requirements plus a 10-year amortization have caused buyers to pay more for businesses than they would have years ago (because their payments are the same or less). The buyer is a great operator and got a great business.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Less foot traffic means cash flow of mall owners and developers are getting squeezed - a potential hazard for an economy growing at its slowest pace in decades. Major listed mall operators are also feeling the pain. That's the banks' problem." Malaysia-based Parkson (3368.HK),

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

The question stems from lengthy (256 page PDF) from the BIS Annual Report (Bank for International Settlements) that stated among other things " The only source of lasting prosperity is a stronger supply side. The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ".

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Though I don’t believe that markets follow math, it’s striking how closely market action in recent years has followed a “log-periodic bubble” as described by Didier Sornette (see Increasingly Immediate Impulses to Buy the Dip ). I have been prepared to underperform for the fun of being proved right when markets crash.

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Cash Flow Trends Policies Marketing 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

A nearly $150 million settlement is pending for the fake-account scandal that roiled the bank last year, and a new scandal has emerged: Recently it has been alleged that thousands of customers were signed up for insurance without their knowledge. ’s largest banks? What explains the divergence in the fortunes of two of the U.S.’s

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Pharmaceuticals Intellectual Property Training Training 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Our data include about 950 businesses. Challenge risk financing conventions.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

With its IT expertise, C$35 million of cash in the bank and other resources, the combined BitGold/GoldMoney has resources far beyond what GoldMoney alone was able to put together. GoldMoney will continue to operate in Jersey as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Toronto parent. In contrast, GoldMoney and BitGold are debt-free.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

But these claims are very rarely backed up by large-scale evidence, and often driven by a misunderstanding of how buybacks actually operate. A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.”

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

trillion muni market had puzzled at the true identity of Bond Girl, Hector Negroni, co-founder of New York-based investing firm Fundamental Credit Opportunities, said in a telephone interview. “ The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund. Chicago’s property tax revenues do not go into its general operating fund.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Cash: With zero interest rates the penalty for holding cash is not very significant. Stock Market: Nothing cheap. If you take out those stocks, the stock market isn't doing real well. That's indicative of the way the market has responded for the last six months. So I don't understand the stock market.

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