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Bankable Insights: Overcoming Anxiety is Key to Investment Success
Category Archives: Corporate Finance
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Fact File: Annual Budget of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
How paltry is the U.S. market regulator’s funding? This paltry: Last year Citigroup disposed of assets worth more than the SEC’s entire operating budget. Read more
Book Review: Pension Finance
M. Barton Waring has succeeded in creating one of the definitive works on the structure and management of defined benefit plans. This indispensable guide for pension advisers dispels any notion of easy solutions to the problems of defined benefit plans, especially underfunding. His sensible solutions are within our grasp if we choose to accept them. Read more
Using Twitter To Understand Information and Improve Investment Returns
Twitter is an excellent resource for investors wanting to understand information and improve investment returns. Read more
Top 5 Articles from March
Top posts from last month included articles on the Facebook IPO, five perspectives on the China’s “investment bubble,” and reassessing the concept of the risk-free rate. Read more
Book Review: Winning Investors Over
The job of management is to maximize corporate value, which leads CEOs to seek ways to boost their companies’ stock prices. Although generating consistent long-term earnings growth for shareholders would seem the obvious path to reaching that goal, every company will experience difficult times. The question is whether shareholders will regard a down quarter or year as simply a short detour on the overall journey or consider short-run earnings misses significant. Read more
European Companies Move away from Bank Loans to Corporate Bonds: Implications for Investors
Does the shift away by corporates from seeking bank financing have an unforeseen impact on systemic risk? Vincent Papa, CFA, examines the issue. Read more
Rethinking the Risk-Free Rate, Exploding a Fundamental Assumption
There is no such thing as a risk-free rate of return, just as there is no such thing as our world without action. Yet, the concept of a bedrock expected rate of return is a good one in need of a better description that is more reflective of reality. Read more
An Overview of Alternatives to Credit Ratings
In the wake of the Great Recession, many alternatives to the traditional credit-rating agencies are being considered. Here is an overview. Read more
The Post Ratings Agency World: An Interview with Invictus Group’s Kamal Mustafa
A powerful alternative to traditional credit ratings is the scenario-planning approach developed by Kamal Mustafa, CEO of Invictus Consulting Group. Read more