Corporate Finance
At the European Investment Conference, Jochen Felsenheimer of XAIA Investments explained that high yield was no place for long-only buy and hold investors. But is any investment safe from financial Armageddon?
Lag time, accounting rules, and dollar-for-dollar mapping challenges make research and development spending tough to evaluate, and yet it is central to the analyst’s understanding of some firms.
For Facebook’s share price, Professor Aswath Damodaran of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University sees investors confusing corporate valuation with market pricing. Damodaran will be speaking in Singapore at the 66th CFA Institute Annual Conference.
Does the shift away by corporates from seeking bank financing have an unforeseen impact on systemic risk? Vincent Papa, CFA, examines the issue.