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The School Bell Rings: Time for Class!

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

I started in the MBA program at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979, at the tail-end of its basketball glory days, fully expecting to move on to a career in consulting or investment banking, when I was done.

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A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If your query is why I would continue to teach rather than seek out more lucrative careers in investing or banking, my answer is a simple one. and uses that endgame to cast light on the investing, financing and dividend decisions that all businesses, small or large, private or public, have to make.

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

Musings on Markets

JUNE 17, 2025

On the debt front, the public debt and bank debt market is supplemented by private credit , where investors pool funds to lend to private businesses, with negotiated rates and terms. again a process that has been around a while, but one that has also become formalized and a much larger source of funds.

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The School Bell Rings: Time for Class!

A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition

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

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