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- Startup 101 : Should You Form An Inc. or LLC?
- Startup 101 : Should You Form An Inc. or LLC?Inc. or LLC?Darmesh's article on this subject from Nicholas Napp is excellent. He identifies the differences that drive the decision of which form to choose: flexibility, tax treatment and personal liability protection. (disclaimer: I'm not a...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
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- Winning by default: Choice drives employer decision-making.
- Jan 03, 2006 (Super Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Mercer Human Resource Consulting's Australasian head, David Anderson, spoke at a national conference in Melbourne. At the ...
- Research articles 2006-01-03
- Why openSUSE went for KDE
- Usually, the major Linux desktop distributors offer both the major Linux desktop interfaces-KDE and GNOME. Some, like Canonical divide it into two separate distributions, Ubuntu for GNOME and Kubuntu for KDE, but they seldom offer a default choice. OpenSUSE. however, is taking that plunge and it's decided on KDE. It...
- News items 2009-08-21
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Is Updated with New Default Options
- Microsoft is offering users the up-front option of making Internet Explorer 8 their default browser, or else staying with a rival browser, as part of a Patch Tuesday update. The new version of IE 8 comes as Microsoft finds itself losing browser market-share to Firefox and other rivals, and negotiating...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Simulating Correlated Default Processes Using Copulas: A Criterion-Based Approach
- Modeling correlated default risk is a new phenomenon currently sweeping through the credit markets. Little is known about the drivers of default risk at the portfolio level. This paper develops a methodology to assess alternative specifications of the joint distribution of default risk. Specifications are based on three criteria: level,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Model for Pricing Stocks and Bonds with Default Risk
- This paper develops a tractable, dynamic, no-arbitrage model for the pricing of bonds and stocks that are subject to default risk. The model produces the bond pricing equations of the Duffie and Singleton (1999) framework. It is then shown that a particular choice of dividend process, characterized by affine dividend...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- News: DC choice could leave members out of pocket.
- Byline: Hannah Williams Pension scheme members could be losing out on thousands of pounds each year by cautiously opting for default funds, investment managers warned. Fidelity International predicted as many as 90% of defined contribution DC members plump for the default...
- Research articles 2007-09-03
- Their choice, your chore.(Brief Article)
- Apr 18, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian employers will need to prepare for the start of the superannuation choice regime on 1 July 2005. They will need to work out whether their staff are eligible for choice. They will have to ensure...
- Research articles 2005-04-18
- Market Value of Life Insurance Contracts Under Stochastic Interest Rates and Default Risk
- Life insurance companies offer complex contracts written with the following many covenants: interest rate guarantees, bonus and surrender options, equity-linked policies, choice of a reference portfolio, participating policies. Every clause has a value and is a part of the company liabilities. These embedded options should not be ignored and must...
- White papers 2004-11-02
- Unions push for industry funds to be the default.
- Jun 27, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The ACTU believes that companies in Australia should elect industry superannuations funds as the default in new enterprise bargaining deals. David Whiteley, the peak union body's superannuation officer, says this will lessen...
- Research articles 2005-06-28
- Household Risk Management and Optimal Mortgage Choice
- A typical household has a home mortgage as its most significant financial contract. The form of this contract is correspondingly important. This paper studies the choice between a fixed-rate FRM and an adjustable-rate ARM mortgage. In an environment with uncertain inflation, a nominal FRM has risky real capital value whereas...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Timing of employee's choice.
- Byline: Stuart Jones Oct 11, 2005 (Intax - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian employers have two months to take action after employees submit notice of a change in superannuation...
- Research articles 2005-10-11
- Choice tricks.
- Byline: Michael Laurence Sep 22, 2005 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- There have been suspicions of dubious conduct during the first three months of the Australian choice of superannuation fund ...
- Research articles 2005-09-22
- Consumption, Debt and Portfolio Choice: Testing the Effect of Bankruptcy Law
- Consumer bankruptcy laws, which vary across states and over time, permit debtors to keep assets below a statutory exemption while debts are forgiven. High exemptions distort household portfolio decisions and tempt households to default on debts; but they also provide a crude form of consumption insurance. In this paper, information...
- White papers 2002-02-20
- Deregulation and the Default Service Obligation: Putty-Putty, Putty-Clay or Humpty-Dumpty?
- This paper provides a critical examination of the relationship between deregulation and the USO Universal Service Obligation. The paper examines deregulation including the many paradoxes of deregulation as practiced. It argues that the rent seeking and public choice literature offer some insights in explaining the process and understanding the implications...
- White papers 2001-10-22
- Make It Automatic: To Boost Retirement Savings, Future Plans May Turn Every Step From Enrollment to Rollover Into a "Default" Choice for Employees
- Rule No. 1: Inertia dominates human actions. Rule No. 2: People fear loss more than they value gain. As two tenets of behavioral finance, these principles are still largely confined to being studied in the world's business schools. But the twin theories already serve as the underpinning of a 401k...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Gold Is Still a Good Choice
- Jesse Veverka submits: I find it difficult to believe that, despite the utter corruption that has become increasingly apparent as a result of this economic crisis inherent in the banking and Federal Reserve systems and the contempt of these institutions for the long-term value of the US dollar, there still...
- External links 2009-04-19
- Choice of fund introduces random factor: report.
- Jun 28, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) On 28 June 2005, Rice Walker Actuaries released a report into unit pricing. The group's principal investment consultant, Glenn Langton, claims it is important that the amount earned on funds invested in a superannuation fund...
- Research articles 2005-06-29
- Regulatory Reform: No Case for Mandated Clearing
- Craig Pirrong submits: New York University Stern School of Business professors Aarya, Engle, Figlewski, Lynch, and Subrhmanyam (AEFLS) contributed a chapter advocating centralized clearing of credit derivatives in the recent volume Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System edited by Acharya and Richardson. Although the authors are...
- External links 2009-10-26
- Review: Ubuntu 9.10 v Windows 7
- Canonical will release the latest version of the open-source operating system Ubuntu this Thursday, and we look at how it stacks up against Windows 7 Apple let Snow Leopard out of its cage earlier this autumn, and Canonical will release another beast this week: Karmic Koala, otherwise known...
- News items 2009-10-27
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