David Felsenthal - Advisory Board Pres and Director

Director

Mr. David L. Felsenthal is President and Director of The Advisory Board Company. Mr. Felsenthal first joined us in 1992 and became our President in September 2008. During his tenure with the company, he has served in a number of research, product development, and executive roles, including as Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, and Treasurer from April 2001 through February 2006, Executive Vice President from February 2006 through December 2006, and Chief Operating Officer from January 2007 to September 2008. From September 1999 to March 2001, Mr. Felsenthal was Vice President of an affiliated health care technology company, eHospital Inc. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Felsenthal worked as Director of Business Development and Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Vivra Specialty Partners, a private health care services and technology firm since 2013.
Age 45
Tenure 11 years
Professional MarksMBA
Phone202 266-5600
Webwww.advisory.com
Felsenthal received an A.B. degree from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. The Board selected Mr. Felsenthal because of his understanding of the company’s business, his 16 years of experience in senior leadership roles with the company, including as our former Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer and as our current President, and his extensive knowledge of the health care and education businesses.

Advisory Board Management Efficiency

Advisory Board's management efficiency ratios could be used to measure how well Advisory Board manages its routine affairs as well as how well it operates its assets and liabilities.
The company currently holds 603.78 M in liabilities with Debt to Equity (D/E) ratio of 106.6, indicating the company may have difficulties to generate enough cash to satisfy its financial obligations. Advisory Board has a current ratio of 1.04, suggesting that it is in a questionable position to pay out its financial obligations when due. Debt can assist Advisory Board until it has trouble settling it off, either with new capital or with free cash flow. So, Advisory Board's shareholders could walk away with nothing if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt. However, a more frequent occurrence is when companies like Advisory Board sell additional shares at bargain prices, diluting existing shareholders. Debt, in this case, can be an excellent and much better tool for Advisory to invest in growth at high rates of return. When we think about Advisory Board's use of debt, we should always consider it together with cash and equity.

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The Advisory Board Company offer best practices research and insight, performance technology software, consulting and management, and dataand techenabled services in the United States and internationally. The Advisory Board (ABCO) is traded on NASDAQ Exchange in USA and employs 3,500 people.

Management Performance

Advisory Board Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the Advisory Board's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: Advisory Board inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of Advisory. The board's role is to monitor Advisory Board's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. Advisory Board's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, Advisory Board's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
Sanju Bansal, Independent Director
Richard Schwartz, President of Performance Technologies and Consulting
Cameron Moss, IR Contact Officer
David Felsenthal, Pres and Director
Sanjeev Bansal, Independent Director
LeAnne Zumwalt, Independent Director
Nancy Killefer, Independent Director
Evan Farber, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary
Mark Neaman, Independent Director
Robert Borchert, VP,IR Contact Officer
Gail Jacobs, IR Contact Officer
Robert Musslewhite, Chairman and CEO
Peter Grua, Independent Director
Mary Hoose, Chief Talent Officer
Cormac Miller, Executive VP
Kelt Kindick, Lead Independent Director
Michael Kirshbaum, CFO and Treasurer
Leon Shapiro, Independent Director

Advisory Stock Performance Indicators

The ability to make a profit is the ultimate goal of any investor. But to identify the right stock is not an easy task. Is Advisory Board a good investment? Although profit is still the single most important financial element of any organization, multiple performance indicators can help investors identify the equity that they will appreciate over time.

Pair Trading with Advisory Board

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Advisory Board position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Advisory Board will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.
The ability to find closely correlated positions to Citigroup could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Citigroup when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Citigroup - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Citigroup to buy it.
The correlation of Citigroup is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Citigroup moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Citigroup moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Citigroup can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
Pair CorrelationCorrelation Matching
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Other Consideration for investing in Advisory Stock

If you are still planning to invest in Advisory Board check if it may still be traded through OTC markets such as Pink Sheets or OTC Bulletin Board. You may also purchase it directly from the company, but this is not always possible and may require contacting the company directly. Please note that delisted stocks are often considered to be more risky investments, as they are no longer subject to the same regulatory and reporting requirements as listed stocks. Therefore, it is essential to carefully research the Advisory Board's history and understand the potential risks before investing.
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