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CFA: Chartering a New Course

September 4, 2023December 22, 2023 Bryce Pointer

In thinking about ways in which my personal experience can add value to readers, my experience with the CFA program often comes to mind. Given

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Finance & Economics

What Makes for Good Business? Part 4: Not So Fast, My Friend!

August 27, 2023December 22, 2023 Bryce Pointer

We’ve covered a lot of ground—accounting, capital costs, and competitive advantages that help companies earn economic profits. But if we want to invest, we ultimately

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What Makes for Good Business? Part 3: Competitive Advantage: Sources and Symptoms

August 20, 2023December 22, 2023 Bryce Pointer

In our last post, we covered a concepts like cost of capital and economic profit to consider as a yardstick when evaluating performance of different

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Finance & Economics

What Makes for Good Business? Part 2: Beating Your ROIC Benchmark

August 13, 2023December 22, 2023 Bryce Pointer

In our previous post, we spent some time on accounting fundamentals, trying to get a sense of the building blocks to measure a business’ profitability,

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Finance & Economics

What Makes a Good Business? Part 1: The Language of Business

July 16, 2023December 22, 2023 Bryce Pointer

It’s a lot easier to be consistent with any investment strategy (or any thing, period) if it’s something you truly believe in. Some believe strongly

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Introduction: The Ten-Minute Major

July 16, 2023December 22, 2023 Bryce Pointer

Comedian Groucho Marx had a pretty good bit called “The Five Minute University ”—essentially cutting higher education down to the bare bones: what people will typically

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