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MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia

The Big Picture

A nine-time “Professor of the Year” winner at NYU, Damodaran teaches classes in corporate finance and valuation to MBA students. He has also written several books on corporate finance and equity valuation and has published widely in journals. Damdoran loves “untangling the puzzles of corporate finance and valuation.”

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MiB: Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest 

The Big Picture

We discuss Chancellor’s history as an analyst interested in speculative bubbles, which led him to write a research paper on valuations and why the dotcom bubble looks a lot like other historical bubbles. His new book “ The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest ” is a nominee for FT’s 2022 Business Book of the Year.

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MiB: Robert Koenigsberger, Gramercy Funds Management

The Big Picture

Koenigsberger discusses why EM Debt often has a low correlation to equity markets: By using historical measures of drawdowns and valuations, the firm can own an assortment of debt at prices that are non-correlated to stocks. Koenigsberger says “I’ve been doing Emerging markets since before it emerged.”.

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MiB: Cathy Marcus, Co-CEO, Global COO of PGIM Real Estate

The Big Picture

Valuations, workouts, opportunistic investing, and managing underwater properties were part of the many prospects the GFC created that allowed thoughtful observers to add to their skill set and learn from experiences. She became Senior Portfolio Manager for PGIM Real Estate’s flagship core equity real estate fund.

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MiB: Cliff Asness, AQR

The Big Picture

You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , YouTube , and Bloomberg. Neither he nor AQR engages in market timing, but the spread between value and growth had gotten so huge that he felt comfortable “sinning a little.”

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MiB: Eva Shang, CEO, Legalist

The Big Picture

She leads the company’s 35-person team of engineers, attorneys, and analysts, and is a member of the firm’s valuation and investment committees. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Bloomberg.

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Heavy Weights: The Real Story Behind Current Market Concentration

Financial Symmetry

This means that the expansion of valuation multiples, like price-to-earnings (P/E), has played a big role.2 For current valuations to be justified for the Mag 7 and large growth stocks more broadly, very large earnings growth will have to continue. Pay attention to valuations. 2 Figure 4 demonstrates. Source: Morningstar.