Regulations, standards, and laws limit what an analyst can do—but that doesn’t mean all analysts produce equally valuable work. In fact, there’s one secret to getting an edge that feels illegal—and you won’t believe what it is.
There’s one financial tool that is widely used and considered one of the backbones of analysis for all kinds of situations. Memorize this one formula and you’ll impress job interviewers, bosses, and coworkers for good.
Different kinds of assets need to be valued differently. And while it isn’t hard to learn these metrics individually, it is important to be aware of them and how they are used. Today Zolio does a quick introduction to different metrics used in different asset classes and why they’re used.
After FTX was discovered to be fraudulent and account holders’ funds have most likely vanished, the crypto revolution looks to be on hold yet again. What happened, why is this a uniquely crypto story, and how similar is this, at all, to controversies and scandals on Wall Street itself? Surprisingly, the differences here are pretty significant—and paint a much gloomier picture of Web3 than even 2022’s price declines would suggest.
Black swans are famous for being unpredictable events that completely ruin future expectations, but what if you have a predictable and knowable event—but you still can’t quantify it? For Twitter and its competitors, that situation is creating a massive amount of potential risk and reward—and
Finance is an extremely complicated field of human activity and study, but why is it? Does finance have to be so intricate, and is there a reason to the complexity besides keeping prying eyes out? In reality, the history and purpose of finance explain its complexity—and uncover opportunities.