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

Brian DeChesare

Treasury is more important in an industry like commercial banking ( FIG ) than in industrials or consumer/retail because banks constantly issue Debt and Equity and change their Dividend and Stock Repurchase policies to comply with regulatory capital requirements. The key questions that corporate finance teams answer also vary.

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Infrastructure Investment Banking: Definitions, Deals, and a Dizzying Diversity of Verticals

Brian DeChesare

All REITs, including data center REITs (everything on the list above), must distribute a high percentage of their Net Income in the form of Dividends to maintain their status and avoid corporate-level taxes. There are some famous counter-examples (e.g., KKR betting on always high natural gas prices). real estate).

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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Brian DeChesare

That said, my annual investment/market updates always get a lot of traffic, so I thought it might be interesting to follow up on this years update with more of an advice article. You can think of this article as What I would tell my 22-year-old self if I could do it all over again.

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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

The second is art , ranging from paintings from the masters to digital art (non-fungible tokens or NFTs), that presumably offers owners not just financial returns but emotional dividends. Those results, though, have been challenged by others looking at a broader group of funds.

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Stars Of China 2024: Innovation Nation

Global Finance

At some institutions, even the front office offers clients guidance for portfolio management: Industrial Bank chief economist Lu Zhengwei recently recommended that clients practice dividend-focused stock picking. CCB’s Guangdong Province branch in March reported lending ¥160 billion to more than 50,000 local, technology-based enterprises.

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Implementation of Share Buybacks and Their Impact on Corporate Governance

Harvard Corporate Governance

While companies put forth various reasons for pursuing share buybacks, it is the argument that frames them as an attractive alternative to dividends for returning capital to shareholders that generates the most contention.

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Mastering the Dividend Dance

Auto Dealer Valuation Insights

A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that, while the effects of the pandemic have receded from many aspects of American life in mid-2024, investors continue to deal with dividend disruptions. According to the article, of the 187 U.S.