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Brilliant H: Why Moats Matter

Why Moats Matter

The Morningstar Approach to Stock Investing

Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Guiding Principles of Morningstar's Equity Research 1 Question 1: How Can We Identify Which Businesses Are Great? 2 Question 2: When Is the Best Time to Invest in Great Businesses? 6 Chapter 2 What Makes a Moat? 11 Moat Sources 13 Notes 33 Chapter 3 Why Moat Trends Matter 35 Contributed by Stephen Ellis, a member of Morningstar's Economic Moat Committee and head of Financial Services equity research at Morningstar Moat Trends and Fundamental Performance 37 Five Key Considerations for Moat Trends 38 Intangibles 41 Cost Advantage 44 Switching Costs 47 Network Effect 51 Efficient Scale 54 Best Practices for Moat Trend Analysis 57 Chapter 4 How Stewardship Affects Economic Moats 61 Contributed by Todd Wenning, who oversees Morningstar's equity stewardship methodology&nbsp; Meet Our Stewardship Methodology 62 Drilling Down 63 Chapter 5 Applying Moats to Dividend Investing 81 Contributed by Josh Peters, director of equity-income strategy for Morningstar and editor of the Morningstar ® DividendInvestor SM newsletter Why Dividends Matter 83 Which Dividends? 87 Chapter 6 The Importance of Valuation 93 Contributed by Joel Bloomer, Matt Coffina, and Gareth James, members of Morningstar's Moat Committee and contributors to Morningstar's valuation methodology Valuation Concepts 95 Cost of Capital and Returns on Capital 96 Morningstar's Valuation Approach 97 Example: Calculating ROIC 99 Forecasting Future Free Cash Flows 102 The Morningstar Rating TM for Stocks 106 Fair Value Uncertainty and Cost of Equity 107 Notes 111 Chapter 7 Do Moat Ratings Predict Stock Returns? 113 Contributed by Warren Miller, head of quantitative research at Morningstar Chapter 8 Putting Moat and Valuation to Work: Portfolio Strategies 121 Wide Moat Focus Index 121 The Tortoise and Hare Portfolios 124 Chapter 9 Basic Materials 129 Commodity Manufacturers 130 Commodity Processors 133 Metals and Mining 135 Chapter 10 Consumer 139 Beverages 140 Consumer Products 141 Tobacco 143 Restaurants 144 Retail Defensive 146 Specialty Retail 148 Lodging 149 Notes 151 Chapter 11 Energy 153 Oil and Gas Drilling 154 Oil and Gas Exploration and Production 156 Oil and Gas Midstream 158 Refining 159 Oil and Gas Integrateds 161 Engineering Services 163 Chapter 12 Financial Services 167 Banks 168 Capital Markets 170 Credit Services 172 Financial Exchanges 173 Insurance 174 Chapter 13 Healthcare 177 Pharmaceuticals 178 Biotechnology 180 Medical Devices 182 Medical Instruments and Supplies 184 Diagnostics and Research 185 Chapter 14 Industrials 187 Railroads 188 Airport Operators 190 Aerospace and Defense 191 Trucking and Marine Shipping 192 Waste Management 193 Heavy Equipment 195 Diversified Industrials 197 Chapter 15 Technology 199 Consumer Technology 200 Enterprise Hardware Systems 202 IT Services 203 Semiconductors 205 Software 207 Telecom Services 209 Chapter 16 Utilities 211 Regulated and Diversified Utilities 212 Independent Power Producers 214 About the Authors 217 Index 221

Banking, Money and International Finance

The emergence of financial technologies has unlocked a myriad of possibilities for reshaping governance systems, from the grassroots level of micro-governance to the broader scope of national and transnational governance. This book thoroughly examines the significant impact of cutting-edge financial technology on enhancing worldwide access to financial services. In an era marked by persistent governance challenges, it highlights the transformative potential of AI-driven solutions in fostering more equitable economic participation. Overcoming traditional banking barriers to serve underserved and unbanked communities, the book investigates the fourth wave of fintech innovation depicted by AI, blockchain technologies and decentralized systems. The book begins by presenting the fundamentals of digital innovation, particularly emphasising the transformative role of AI-powered financial tools in improving banking experiences for various global communities. It emphasizes the role of digital payment platforms in bridging the gap between urban and rural populations, as well as the way blockchain technology and smart contracts are setting new benchmarks for transaction security and transparency. Its primary focus is on the strategies for overcoming financial exclusion. Cybersecurity compliance, ethical AI, data governance, and regulatory coordination are considered essential for creating trustworthy digital financial systems. Additionally, it thoroughly examines the alternative credit scoring methods that use non-traditional data to transform lending and presents the opportunities and challenges that will shape the future of finance, with a particular emphasis on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), sustainable blockchain solutions, and artificial intelligence collaborations. For scholars, researchers and policymakers working to create a more accessible and sustainable financial future, the book offers a thorough overview of the state of inclusive fintech today and a predictive outlook on how technology can promote global economic equity.

Financial Innovation for Inclusive and Equitable Digital Economies

ESSENTIALS OF DERIVATIVE SECURITIES

The Godfather of Finance Teaches You the Master Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom

An Offer You Can't Refuse

A journalistic account of the origins and rise of meme coins.

Crypto Degenerates, White House Hustlers, and the Rise of the Casino Economy

The American Meme

This popular textbook offers a broad and accessible introduction to the building blocks of modern finance: financial markets, institutions and instruments. Theory is blended with real-world data, cases and numerical worked examples to offer a broad and accessible introduction to the building blocks of modern finance in the 5th edition of Finance and Financial Markets. The book features assessment and self-test resources to help support students and lecturers, as well as extensive discussion of regulatory developments, case studies involving FinTech and Brexit and fully updated data. An updated companion website is also available which offers lecturer slides and multiple choice questions. This new edition has updated data and cases throughout, ensuring that it is as up-to-date as possible in this fast-moving area. New material has been introduced relating to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, emerging markets and sustainable finance. The opening five chapters provide an introduction to the world of finance and cover the basic theory relating to the operation of financial institutions and the domestic and offshore (Eurocurrency) money markets. Chapters 6 to 10 deal with both the theory and practice relating to capital markets. The theory covers areas such as portfolio diversification, the capital asset pricing model, the Gordon growth model and the efficient market hypothesis, while the practice looks at the domestic and international bond markets and equity markets. After an examination of the foreign exchange market and forward markets, the final chapters of this comprehensive textbook cover derivative instruments, financial innovations and, as a closing reflection, financial regulation. Finance and Financial Markets is ideally suited to students at all levels who take economics, business and finance courses, as well as for those who want to understand the workings of the modern financial world.

Finance and Financial Markets

You know you have more to offer, but you're tired of waiting for a seat at the table to prove it. Most emerging leaders feel stuck in a holding pattern, believing that their ability to make an impact is capped by their current title or the person above them on the org chart. But influence isn't a reward for a promotion. It's a muscle you build in the mundane, everyday moments of your current role.In 90 Days to Grow Your Influence Clay Scroggins, bestselling author of How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, provides a daily roadmap for the "not-in-charge" leader. Drawing from his foundational work on leveraging influence without authority, this 90-day reader helps you navigate the tension of having great responsibility but very little power.Each day is designed to be a "snackable" but substantial 5-minute read, perfect for your morning coffee or the commute to the office. Through a mix of relatable stories, leadership metaphors, and spiritually grounded reflections, you'll learn how to: <ul><li>Understand Identity: Secure your worth in who you are, not just what you do or what your business card says.</li><li>Lead Yourself: Master the disciplines of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.</li><li>Choose Positivity: Cultivate a resilient, solution-oriented mindset that shifts the energy of every room you enter.</li><li>Think Critically: Stop being a passive observer and start solving problems.</li><li>Reject Passivity: Take ownership of the ground you're standing on today.</li><li>Challenge Well: Influence the leaders above you with relational equity and wisdom.</li></ul>Whether you are a new hire, a middle manager, or an aspiring executive, this book is your daily reminder that your seat on the org chart doesn't define your impact. You have everything you need to start leading right where you are. Real influence starts here.

Daily Habits for Leading from Any Level

90 Days to Grow Your Influence

Every generation faces both challenges and opportunities and in this new book Robert Kiyosaki looks at the world through the eyes of millennials, a group of young adults who are living in a global environment unlike anything the world have ever seen. The roads before them are both exciting and challenging in a world filled with both risks of a fast-paced and ever-changing world and massive opportunities for those who can envision the future and its needs.Technology, trust, respect, values and priorities... Kiyosaki navigates through them all as he integrates thoughts from dozens of millennials with his core principles of financial education.Challenged by a turbulent global economy, a shrinking job market, massive student loan debt and increased automation and AI, millennials are seeking answers. What will tomorrow look like... and how can they createboth the lifestyle they desire and the freedoms that are so important to them?Kiyosaki believes that the future for millennials is a blank slate and that they alone have the power to create the future they desire - a future of promise, prosperity, and freedom.

New Generations — New Assets — New Opportunities

Millennial Money

No one should ever need to get rich twice. With a foreword by Michael Lewis. By the end of 1929, Jesse Livermore was one of the richest men in the world, having shorted the market straight into the crash. Five years later, he filed for bankruptcy for the third time, and this time there was no coming back. He bet enormous sums on single stocks, borrowed to the hilt, and lived so lavishly he could never step back. Had index funds existed, he would have scoffed at them. Livermore's life is a case study in what happens when you do the opposite of every principle in this book. Get Rich Once: and Other Financial Wisdom for Our Younger Selves is written for people in their 20s and 30s, right at the start of their financial lives. It's the book Victor Haghani and James White wish someone had handed them at that age. Between them, they've worked the trading floors and research desks of Salomon Brothers, Bank of America, LTCM, and Citadel. They learned early that professional market expertise and good personal financial decisions are two very different things -- they broke most of their own rules, and it cost them dearly, in money and in sleep. This book brings a new way of thinking to every financial decision you'll ever make: how much to spend and save, what to invest in, whether to buy or rent, what to insure, when to borrow, and how to outsmart the three psychological biases that hurt investors most. Inside, you'll find: <ul> <li>seven core principles for making better decisions under uncertainty</li> <li>a five-star screen for narrowing the investment universe to a manageable set</li> <li>specific, low-cost fund recommendations</li> <li>practical guidance on accounts, cards, and taxes</li> <li>a single number that tells you exactly what your savings can support</li> </ul> It's relentlessly practical, and it's achievable on an ordinary income, no unusual luck required, no heroic frugality, no schemes. The authors walk you through the reasoning behind every recommendation, so when life hands you a decision this book doesn't cover, you'll know how to work it out yourself. And unlike stock picking, none of it is zero-sum. Your success never depends on someone else's loss. If everyone followed these principles, everyone would come out ahead. From the authors of The Missing Billionaires, one of The Economist's Best Books of 2023.

and Other Financial Wisdom for Our Younger Selves

Get Rich Once

The Wiley Finance Series

The fully updated practitioner and academic reference for today's hedge fund industry Now in its Second Edition, Handbook of Hedge Funds delivers a thorough overhaul of the original volume to reflect an industry fundamentally reshaped by the global financial crisis, massive asset growth, institutionalization, and far-reaching regulation. François-Serge Lhabitant, CEO and CIO of Kedge Capital and Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, draws on 25 years of practitioner and academic experience. This updated edition incorporates post-crisis market dynamics, modern risk management practices, and new strategies including quantitative market neutral, crypto, multi-strategy platforms, and commodities. It covers China-based and ESG-focused hedge funds, synthesizes 20 years of academic research, and addresses regulations such as Dodd-Frank, AIFMD, and SFDR. A companion website provides teaching materials including slides, exercises, and solutions. Readers will also find: <ul> <li>Updated data, examples, and analysis reflecting how hedge funds actually operate, are structured, and are regulated today</li> <li>Real trade examples and operational insights drawn from managing a multi-billion-dollar portfolio invested in hedge fund strategies</li> <li>Coverage of new geographies and investor types, including sovereign wealth funds, large pension funds, endowments, and family offices</li> <li>Rigorous analysis paired with practical relevance, making the book equally effective as a professional reference and university textbook</li> <li>Discussion of emerging areas such as ESG integration, crypto-related strategies, and the rise of China-based hedge funds</li> </ul> Handbook of Hedge Funds serves finance practitioners, institutional investors, consultants, lawyers, and accountants who need a current understanding of hedge fund operations and strategies. It also functions as a core textbook for university hedge fund courses and a reference for students pursuing careers in the industry.

Handbook of Hedge Funds

From Theory to Practice

Fundamentals of Climate Finance

This book explores the&nbsp;application of theories of strategy and international trade to the global banking industry, covering both commercial and investment banks. Chapters&nbsp;incorporate analyses from the perspective of banks and regulators in the post-financial crisis period. The author traces the history of international financial institutions, and also looks to the development of bank structure over time to the present day. The book adopts a&nbsp;multifaceted&nbsp;view of the international&nbsp;banking industry, beginning with theories of strategy and internationalism, and finishing with current and&nbsp;practical&nbsp;issues faced within the transnational banking community.

Evolution, Trade and Competition

International Banking and Bank Strategy

A story-driven stock investing guide from a Rhodes Scholar and professional fund manager&nbsp; In The Quiet Millionaires, Rhodes Scholar and fund manager Jonathan Tepper teams with award-winning author Joseph Luzzi, PhD, to deliver an accessible, story-driven guide to stock investing. Tepper brings decades of professional experience managing over $600 million in assets at Prevatt Capital, while Luzzi offers three decades of perspective as a private investor.&nbsp; The book pairs Wall Street expertise with Main Street sensibility, using engaging stories and concrete examples to communicate stock investing's principal lessons. Rather than relying on complex mathematical models or abstract theory, the authors draw on their combined experience in financial services, literature, history, and entrepreneurship to present practical investing knowledge that informs without talking down to readers.&nbsp; Readers will also find:&nbsp; <ul> <li>Lessons from a professional money manager who started as an equity analyst at SAC Capital and Bank of America&nbsp;</li> <li>An engaging, story-based approach modeled on the style of the Economist and New Yorker magazines&nbsp;</li> <li>Insights combining professional Wall Street investment perspective with practical Main Street investor experience and cultural understanding&nbsp;</li> <li>Accessible explanations of stock investing fundamentals designed for both new and experienced individual investors seeking clarity&nbsp;</li> <li>Real-world examples and concrete illustrations that bring investing principles to life without overwhelming technical jargon&nbsp;</li> </ul> Ideal for individual investors, aspiring market participants, and anyone curious about the role stocks can play in building wealth,&nbsp;The Quiet Millionaires&nbsp;connects professional investment insight with culturally rich storytelling to make stock investing understandable, relevant, and actionable.&nbsp;

How Ordinary Investors Build Extraordinary Wealth

The Quiet Millionaires

Why Moats Matter

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