Tag Archives: IBKR

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[EFX – Equifax] Investment Implications of Breach Fiasco
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Podcast Blurbs

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[CB] Chubb Ltd.

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[DF] Dean Foods

[DF – Dean Foods] Levered Commodity Processor, Impending Challenges
March 4, 2016

Dean is a levered commodity processor sandwiched between fragmented but price-protected dairy producers and consolidated[...]

[SNA] Snap-On Podcast Blurbs

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September 13, 2017

Invest Like the Best, Ep. 53 (Meb Faber – Factors, Dividends, and Angel Investing) Meb[...]

[IBKR] Interactive Brokers

[IBKR – Interactive Brokers] Low Volatility Weighing on Commissions; Valuation Still Attractive

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(960 words) IBKR began as an electronic market making platform for professional traders at a time when market making was still mostly being conducted via open outcry.  Its foundation of technology and automation ensured transactions at the lowest cost and fulfillment at the best possible price, core capabilities that it later brought to bear in launching […]
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[IBKR] Interactive Brokers

Quick Blurbs [Interactive Brokers]

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IBKR (12/7/2016: GS US Financial Services Conference) In 1990, electronic exchanges began to appear in Europe and Asia while the US remained on open outcry.  Petterfy interfaced its systems to those foreign exchanges and made markets in those exchanges.  Three years later the co. was running a large electronic network that included most of the […]
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[IBKR] Interactive Brokers

[IBKR – Interactive Brokers] Some Opinions on Ameritrade/Scottrade/Interactive Brokers

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(675 words) Before NPV’ing the tax shield, AMTD is paying around 3.8x revenue for Scottrade’s non-bank assets, implying Scottrade revenue of $710mn.  Co. says the “addressable expense base” at Scott is a whopping $750mn, which expense base can be cut by 60% within 3 years of close (w/ the biggest source of synergy coming from […]
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