The Importance of Irrelevance

In many of the daily distributions we send to the media, included is an item at the bottom called Coffee Beans. Why do we include this? Because let’s face it, even those who “love” their job tire from an unending barrage of technical, often poorly presented information.

Levity is an important tool for breaking this spell. Over the years, journalists have told me they look for our communications just so they can read Coffee Beans. And when we look at click-throughs on our communications, Coffee Beans invariably lands on top. Here are some of our “Top 10” Coffee Beans.

Amazon Summits A Dow That No Longer Exists

At the end of February Walgreen’s Boots Alliance was unceremoniously removed from the vaunted Dow Jones Industrial Index and Amazon

Financial Institutions Feeling the Crunch in Countdown to CECL Implementation

I was retained by Big Four accounting and consulting firm KPMG to assist them in their thought leadership efforts centered on changing accounting regulations. In this case, the Financial Accounting Standards Board or FASB had instituted new rules on the measurement of current and expected credit losses, i.e. CECL, that would require massive reorganization of financial reporting for the largest financial services organizations in the world. This thought leadership piece concerned the results of a survey among C-suite executives about their state of preparedness in the final countdown to the CECL implementation.

Securitizing Structured Settlement Payment Streams: A Primer

Fall 2012. This article was written with Stefano Sola and Phil Donahue, executives at JGWPT Holdings. We were engaged by JGWPT to assist them
in publishing the article below for The Journal Of Structured Finance.

Is The Media Biased?

This story is from our February 2024 update newsletter that offers communications insights, and hopefully, some amusing diversion.

David R. Evanson, LLC