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MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia

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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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ATM: Valuation is an Exercise in Faith with Aswath Damodaran

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 ATM: Valuation is an exercise in faith with Aswath Damodaran. Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU Stern School of Business is known as the Dean of Valuation. . ~~~ About this week’s guest: Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU Stern School of Business is known as the Dean of Valuation.

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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

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The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. That insight greatly simplified my task of making the book both fun to read and helpful for anyone interested in investing.

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Wednesday links: a gambling instinct

Abnormal Returns

(tomtunguz.com) Instacart continues to slash its valuation. theinformation.com) Books The best books of 2022 including "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin. hollywoodreporter.com) The best books of 2022 including "Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America" by Pekka Hämäläinen.

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At the Money: Shareholder Yield

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Meb Faber : When we wrote this book a decade ago, you know, we looked at the historical returns of shareholder yield companies and it turned out that shareholder yield beat any dividend strategy we could come up with. So it, it really captures a number of, of factors and characteristics.

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Tuesday links: a complete transformation

Abnormal Returns

ft.com) Venture Tomasz Tunguz, "The bid/ask spread in VC is the difference between the post-money valuation between a VC (the bidder) & a company (seller)." wsj.com) Economy There is a record number of housing units currently under construction. tomtunguz.com) A reading list on how to go about getting started in angel investing.

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Transcript: Jim O’Shaughnessy on Infinite Wisdom

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Extra special guest, Jim O’Shaughnessy, his book that I came to know him with first was, what Works on Wall Street, which has been just a perennial seller. If you have to take a 10 or 20% haircut, I want all this off the books. Valuations tended to crash and burn very, very cheap valuations tended to do well.