Do "Bad" Companies Make Bad Investments?

Source: AOL News

Wouldn't you like to know if you own the next Enron? That's exactly what ratings agencies like GMI Ratings attempt to predict by judging companies based on several governance measures, like excessive compensati ...
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Weekly Announcements – May 21, 2012

Source: The SSRN Blog

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: We are pleased to announce the expansion of Economics Research Network (ERN) Econometrics: Applied Econometric Modeling in Financial Economics eJournal, and Ec ...
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Safeguard Scientifics Adds Jarrett to Board

Source: PE Hub

Publicly traded has named Dr. Keith B. Jarrett to its board. Jarrett is a principal of Rockport Funding, a specialty finance start-up company incubator. Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE), a holding company that builds value in growth-st ...
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Causality and the Diversification Discount

Source: Term Paper Warehouse

1 1 Introduction Does corporate diversification, i.e. the expansion of a firm’s business operations into unrelated areas, destroy shareholder value? The wealth effects associated with conglomerates have been c ...
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Student second at business competition

Source: InsideHalton.com

Grade 12 Abbey Park High School student Tom Zheng is getting a strong start on his future career plans. Tom Zheng is pictured with his DECA awards he picked up at the International Career Development Conference in Salt Lake City ...
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Greater transparency leads to better fund performance, new finance research shows

Source: PhysOrg.com

(Phys.org) -- U.S. laws and regulations on investment management address potential conflicts of interest between investors and managers through disclosure requirements. Surprisingly little is known about the effectiveness of these standards in resolvi ...
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Bank of England orders triple probe into crunch as Mervyn King admitted it was 'late to the game'

Source: Daily Mail - UK

The comments below have not been moderated. The current moguls of the Banking Industry where ever they are located have certainly been successful at one thing. Namely the near complete destruction of their industry, the confidence of Nations and the n ...
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