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Raters sway insurer investments. (Villanova University's associate professor's survey)
Rating agencies, with their power to judge insurer financial stability, have a greater effect on how U.S. insurers manage their investments than do money-making opportunities in capital markets, according to an industry survey. Indeed, when asked Rating agencies, with their power to...
Tags: asset, asset allocation, capital market, insurance company, investment, survey, Villanova University
Research articles 1994-12-12
ENGlobal Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript.
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator instructions Your first question comes from Graham Madison - Lazard Capital Market. Graham Madison - Lazard Capital Market I wondered if you could just sort of comment, you talked about activity levels and bid activity improvement, could you compare this to sort of the...
Tags: Capital Market, Call Transcript, Earnings, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Seeking Alpha, ENGlobal Corp.
Earnings calls 2009-11-09
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Craig Gordon - Cohen & Co. Craig Gordon - Cohen & Co. A couple questions, in the NDA Submission, do you guys plan on submitting proposals both for Phase IV commitments as well as a REMS program? Bill Shanahan We...
Tags: Capital Market, FDA, Partnership, Sales Force, Call Transcript, Earnings, Contingency Plan, Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc., Business Structures, Federal Government, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Government, Sales, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-11-10
Western Goldfields Surges After Poor Year
FP Trading Desk submits: Western Goldfields Inc. WGW is poised to extend a run of six consecutive days of gains, racing from the gates Thursday morning on the strength of rising gold prices. The stock was up as much as 6% to C$1.22 on the Toronto exchange, as bullion...
Tags: Capital Market, Seeking Alpha, FP Trading Desk, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Western Goldfields Inc., Gold & Precious Metals
External links 2008-11-06
Contractual Savings or Stock Markets Development: Which Leads?
This paper studies the relationship between the development of contractual savings assets of pension funds and life insurance companies and capital markets. The focus is on the macroeconomic and financial effects of contractual savings' development. New theoretical ideas and empirical results are presented. At the theoretical level, it explains how...
Tags: Capital Market, Financial, World Bank Group, Stock, Savings, Development, Stock Market, Investment, Free Trade, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2000-08-01
Bond Markets in the Pacific Rim: Development, Market Structure and Relevant Issues in Fixed-Income Securities Markets
This paper reviews the development of fixed-income securities markets in the Pacific rim economies following the onset of the Asian currency crisis in 1997 through to the end of 2000. It provides a background for comparing the market structure in the different capital markets within the region and discusses the...
Tags: Capital Market, Research In Motion Ltd., Bond, Pacific, U.N., Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2002-06-01
Firm Investment, Corporate Finance, and Taxation
This paper examines the intertemporal effect of corporate income taxation on the investment behavior of a firm that faces imperfect capital markets. It shows that when capital markets are imperfect, the optimizing firm goes through different phases of growth. In this dynamic setting, the effect of a corporate tax on...
Tags: Capital Market, IMF, Financing, Taxation, Taxes, Investment, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2002-12-01
Financial Accounting Information and the Relevance/Irrelevance Issue
Some current research concludes that the numbers in financial statement are not relevant for three basic reasons. The numbers: are not isomorphic with capital market values, they do not have a future orientation, and are un-interpretable since they are based upon five different measurement attributes. The lack of isomorphism argument...
Tags: Capital Market, Financial, Canisius College, Investment, Financial Statements, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2005-02-22
The Persistence of UK Versus US GAAP Pension Accounting Differences and Their Relationship With Share Price Returns
This paper provides empirical evidence which discriminates among the value-relevance of alternative pension accounting treatments to capital market participants by examining whether the assets and liabilities of pension funds is reflected in stock prices of UK firms who raise equity capital in US securities markets during 1996-1999 and are therefore...
Tags: Capital Market, Accounting, Lancaster University, GAAP, Pension, Financial Services, Investment, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2002-05-20
Mature and Yet Imperfect: Real Estate Capital Market Arbitrage
The familiar boom-and-bust pattern of the real estate market has been tempered recently by an increased amount of discipline administered by the capital markets, and by the debt markets in particular. Additionally, due to the emergence of the public REIT and CMBS markets in the 1990s, and the accompanying proliferation...
Tags: American Real Estate Society, Business Operations, Capital Market, Finance, Financial Services, Investment, Real Estate
White papers 2002-03-11
Debt Crises and the Development of International Capital Markets
Crises on external sovereign debt are typically defined as defaults. Such a definition accurately captures debt-servicing difficulties in the 1980s, a period of numerous defaults on bank loans. However, defining defaults as debt crises is problematic for the 1990s, when sovereign bond markets emerged. In contrast to the 1980s, the...
Tags: Capital Market, Bond, Debt Crise, Investment, Finance
White papers 2004-03-01
The Capital Market Implications of the Frequency of Interim Financial Reporting: An International Analysis
This study examines empirically the extent to which the frequency of interim financial reporting affects stock price volatility over the course of the fiscal year in four countries with different interim reporting regimes: the United States and Canada with quarterly reporting, and Great Britain and Australia with semi-annual interim reporting....
Tags: Capital Market, Volatility, Financial Reporting, Financial, New Jersey, Great Britain, Analysis, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2003-04-18
Investment Banking and Capital Markets
Investment banks earned record profits in the first quarter of 2004. BCG's investment-banking performance index climbed 40 points to a record level of 127.6. Investment banking results were again supported by strong gains in fixed income trading while profit margins remained high due to trading revenues for the top 10...
Tags: Bank, Capital Market, Boston Consulting Group Inc., Profit Margin, Investment Banking, BCG, Financial Services, Investment, Finance
White papers 2004-05-24
Aggregate Investment Dynamics When Firms Face Fixed Investment Cost and Capital Market Imperfections
In this paper a model of aggregate investment is derived which incorporates fixed investment costs and capital market imperfections on the micro-level. Aggregate investment reacts nonlinearly with respect to aggregate shocks to productivity and liquidity of firms. Employing non-parametric kernel estimation methods to analyze a sample of annual account data...
Tags: Capital Market, University Of Dortmund, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2003-10-01
Industry-Wide Effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 the Act is perhaps the most notable example of federal legislation aimed at reestablishing corporate accountability and restoring investor confidence. This study examines whether the capital market reactions to the passage of the Act vary among industries. It finds that some industries are positively affected,...
Tags: Capital Market, Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Human Resources, Investment, Management, Policies And Procedures, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Strategy, University Of Memphis
White papers 2005-04-28
The Road to Extinction: Commons With Capital Markets
Competitive agents extract in continuous time from a commons. Capital market access allows them to both save and borrow against their extraction stream. When the commons asset grows more quickly than the privately stored one, multiple equilibrium is found for intermediate commons endowments. In the limit, as marginal extraction costs...
Tags: Capital Market, Commons, Extinction, Welfare, University Of Birmingham, Investment, Financial Services, Real Estate, Finance, Business Operations
White papers 2004-01-22
Contractual Savings, Capital Markets and Firms Financing Choices
This paper analyzes the relationship between the development, and asset allocation, of contractual savings and firms' capital structures. It develops a simple model of firms' leverage and debt maturity decision. It illustrates the mechanisms through which contractual savings development may affect corporate financing patterns. In market-based economies, an increase in...
Tags: Capital Market, World Bank Group, Savings, Financing, Free Trade, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2001-03-01
Exploring the Capital Markets and Securitization for Renewable Energy Projects
This paper looks at the opportunities for renewable energy projects to access the bond market to finance projects or refinance existing projects, and what, if anything is required to facilitate this. In addition, the paper looks at the possible use of securitization to group projects together as a means of...
Tags: Capital Market, Securitization, Renewable Energy, Bond, Crown, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Finance
White papers 2001-12-06
Comply Now, IPO Later: Factoring Sarbanes-Oxley Into Your Capital Markets Equation
These days it is nearly impossible to pick up a business publication without reading something about the US's Sarbanes-Oxley Act. But while much has been said about how SOA affects public companies, less discussion has focused on how it impacts privately held companies that want to become, or be acquired...
Tags: Capital Market, Ernst & Young LLP, Factoring, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), IPO, Web Services, Sarbanes-Oxley, Middleware, Regulatory Compliance, Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Services, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
White papers 2004-11-08
A Portfolio Selection and Capital Asset Pricing Model
The aim of this paper is to improve the characterization of a capital market within the CAPM without losing its simplicity and explanatory power. To highlight the peculiarities of the model, the main steps in the development of the standard CAPM are briefly reviewed. The standard CAPM is extended so...
Tags: Capital Asset Pricing Model, Capital Market, Università Carlo Cattaneo, CAPM, Financial Services, Investment, Finance
White papers 2002-02-06
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