The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

In this podcast, Motley Fool analyst Asit Sharma and host Ricky Mulvey discuss: Why Bank of America 's $1.5 Plus, Motley Fool host Alison Southwick and personal finance expert Robert Brokamp answer listener questions about tracking investments, leveraged shares, and life insurance. They want to help companies raise debt.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

Yale didn’t even have a programming in finance. This was back in the late ’70s, early ’80s and he was just teaching people all they needed to know about finance, which was just coming up. So, that all — I was totally in the sort of finance bubble, first kind of market microstructure, trading mechanism.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

NII ex-markets was up $274 million or 1%, driven by the impact of balance sheet mix and securities reinvestment, higher revolving balances in card, and higher wholesale deposit balances, predominantly offset by lower deposit balances in banking and wealth management and deposit margin compression. NIR ex-markets was up $1.8 Expenses of $22.6

Banks 130

Banks Capital Assets Mergers and Acquisitions 130

The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

That’s not the thought process of someone who wants to go into finance. RITHOLTZ: When did it enter your mind that, hey, this finance stuff looks kind of interesting? GREW: So, I got a call and this one was ultimately from a recruiter who’s working for Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, a bond house. RITHOLTZ: Uh-oh.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

A broader worry is that while buyers’ hunger may be back for higher-quality companies, as shown by the uptick in investment-banking activity on Wall Street, the books of PE firms are stuffed with less attractive businesses snapped up at inflated prices. Some investors don’t want firms using such tools to flatter returns.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

00:19:57 [Speaker Changed] So collateralized loan obligation means that there’s some underlying asset which is used as your collateral, you then break that up into different securities and different tranches and out it goes. And, and there just is less competition from the banks. It, it, it was huge price declines.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 16, 2024

Some pension fund chief executive officers have signalled that the worst pain may be over for real estate investors as central banks have started to cut rates, giving hope that the cost to borrow money could ease. But high interest rates have also driven up costs to private borrowers, and the market has grown crowded with lenders.

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Pension Funds Buyout Assets Debt 64

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah. They’re trading. They’re advising clients.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

What led to the interest in finance? HAMBURGER: Quite frankly, the interest in finance started when I was young. When did you kind of realize, hey, I can make law and finance work well together, and one plus one is three? We literally sold the house to finance the business. And so — RITHOLTZ: So why law school?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As I, as I always used to say to people, you know, these banks or these financial institutions, they don’t run outta equity. How can you finance yourself? The cost of financing, everything. What sort of advice would you give to a recent college grad who is interested in a career in the world of investing in finance?

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