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Country Risk 2025: The Story behind the Numbers!

Musings on Markets

At the start of July, I updated my estimates of equity risk premiums for countries, in an semiannual ritual that goes back almost three decades. Third, ratings agencies are often slow to react to events on the ground, and ratings changes, when they do occur, often lag changes in default risk.

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EV/EBITDA Explained: A Key Valuation Multiple for Investors

Valutico

This ratio offers insight into a companys profitability and relative value by comparing its total worth (Enterprise Value, encompassing debt and equity) to its operational earnings (EBITDA). EV typically includes Market Capitalization, Debt, Minority Interest, and Preferred Equity, minus Cash & Cash Equivalents.

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

Brian DeChesare

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. The key questions that corporate finance teams answer also vary.

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

Brian DeChesare

Allocations: If youre young, you should invest mostly in equities, but I believe gold and silver are often good replacements for fixed income in the traditional 80 / 20 or 60 / 40 portfolios. At the very least, youll keep earning and re-investing dividends, which adds a small percentage each year.

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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. Investor education events are regularly held for clients.

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Portman Ridge Finance Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results

Benzinga

Subsequent Events On August 7, 2025, the Company declared a regular quarterly base distribution of $0.47 Our debt investment portfolio, excluding our investments in the CLO Funds, equities and Joint Ventures, totaled $323.1 Deployments of approximately $10.9 million and sales and repayments of approximately $17.0 million.

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To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question!

Musings on Markets

The first is the role that cash holdings play in a business , an extension of the dividend policy question, with an examination of why businesses often should not pay out what they have available to shareholders. In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written about in the past.