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- Born into darkness: FEI in the 1930s; Financial Executives International (FEI) was born against a backdrop of deep economic troubles. The organization was launched to help financial executives set the professional and ethical tone for their peers for deca
- It was a terrible time in the U.S., the dark December of 1931. Eight million workers had no work. Banks closed. Businesses failed. Investment evaporated. Bankruptcy prevailed. The Dow Jones had dropped to a miserable 41, down from 400, and radicals w It was a terrible...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- All's Not Fair In Love And Mergers
- From the executive summary: ‘A fairness opinion affirming that a merger or sale transaction is financially fair to a company's shareholders is an important but frequently overlooked risk management technique. Such opinions are required in deals involving public companies. Yet there are often compelling reasons for privately held businesses to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Investor Communications: New Rules For M&A Success
- Mergers and acquisitions are the primary tool of corporate strategy in the changed M&A climate. This article talks about the M&A communications process. Communications strategy can make the difference between success and failure on everything from securing shareholder approval to meshing two distinct organizational cultures. This article suggests that senior...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Are Mergers Paying Off?
- The paper discusses the effectiveness of mergers. It discusses this issue with several examples. The most frequent asked question is that are mergers paying off? There is no simple answer, and indeed, there are rafts of shoals that mergers can founder on: poor pricing, cultural and/or people issues, poor planning,...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- FASB Improves Accounting for Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity
- The Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB has issued Statement No. 150, Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity. The Statement improves the accounting for certain financial instruments that, under previous guidance, issuers could account for as equity. The new Statement requires that those instruments be...
- White papers 2003-05-15
- Making Mergers Work
- In 1999, Corporate Mergers in the United States alone totaled a staggering $3.44 trillion and despite the well-publicized, much-analyzed fact that many of these mergers - up to 70%, according to some estimates - failed to create value. thus it seems clear that the end is not yet in...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Debt vs Saving
- According to literature U.S. corporations have issued more than $45 billion in "synthetic putable" debt since 1996. The driving force behind these popularity has been the twin combination of low interest rates and high-implied volatilities in the fixed-income option market. If rates go up, the debt issuer pockets the premium...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Case Study: Retailer Reduces Costs - Enterprise Cost Reduction In The Apparel Industry
- Acquisitions are a key means of achieving strategic goals for most large corporations. Particularly within large companies, there is no shortage of experience in doing deals and integrating acquired businesses. Nevertheless, the new dynamics of the M&A market in both the U.K. and the U.S. are challenging even the most...
- White papers 2007-10-01
- What's In A Name?
- This article discusses case of Chuck Kane of Ardent. Three mergers and three new corporate identities in three years would leave any CFO shell-shocked. However, Chuck Kane of Ardent was still, well, ardent. Chuck Kane was CFO of VMARK Software when it merged with Unidata in early 1998. The two...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Snaring A Suitor
- With the exception of hostile mergers, every acquisition requires a willing seller. Yet remarkably, most sellers do not approach the sale of their business with anywhere near the sense of strategy that buyers do. Smaller companies in particular tend to look at a sale only as an option to unload...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Desperately Seeking Synergy
- Mergers and acquisitions are happening at a frenetic pace. However, the question, which arises, is do all the corporate meldings work happily ever after? Companies are trying to buy their way to strategic growth with bigger acquisition premiums and more cross-border deals. An acquisition premium is the amount an acquiring...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- NASDAQ Tests The Winds Abroad
- With a capacity to trade 6 billion shares a day, Nasdaq is the single largest equities market in the world. Between 1997 and 2000, the exchange raised $316.5 billion in capital for the high-tech sector and brought 1,649 companies public. Now, Nasdaq itself is expected to go public by the...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- The M&A Game Challenge
- The paper discusses the interventions issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB regarding business combinations and acquisitions. The new rules do away with pooling of interests. The new rules seek to redefine domestic and international merger activity. They pave the way for smooth provision of information by the companies...
- White papers 2003-01-01
Additional Resources
- Aberdeen International Appoints Bernard Wilson as a Director
- Aberdeen International Inc. (TSX: AAB) ("Aberdeen International" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that Mr. Bernard Wilson., has joined the Company as a director. Mr. Wilson, FCA, ICD.D is a senior financial professional with a wide array of working relationships with business executives in Canada, the United States...
- Research articles 2008-10-02
- Desarrolladora Homex SA de CV Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. We have a question from Jorge Kury with Morgan Stanley. Go ahead, Jorge. Jorge Kury - Morgan Stanley Hi, good morning. Two quick questions, the first one, operating expenses were up 36% year-on-year,...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Wells Fargo Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptWells Fargo & Co. WFC Q2 2007 Earnings Call July 17, 2007 8:00 am ET Executives Bob Strickland - SVP & IR Howard Atkins - Sr. EVP & CFO Presentation Bob Strickland Hello, this is Bob Strickland. Thank you for calling into the Wells Fargo Second Quarter...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-17
- More charges likely in Stanford case after plea deal
- By Anna Driver of Reuters HOUSTON - A plea agreement signed by Allen Stanford's former top aide signals that more people in the wide-ranging $US7 billion ($A8.3 billion) fraud case may face charges, a lawyer involved in the case said on Thursday. "Read the plea agreement language very, very carefully,"...
- News items 2009-08-27
- The Principal Financial Group Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptThe Principal Financial Group PFG Q3 2009 Earnings Call November 03, 2009; 10:00 am ET Executives Larry Zimpleman - Chief Executive Officer Terry Lillis - Chief Finanical Officer Dan Houston - Executive Vice President, US Asset Accumulation Julia Lawler - Chief Investment Officer Jim McCaughan -...
- Earnings calls 2009-11-03
- SEC's Christopher Cox Wants to Globalize Regulation
- Executives are getting washed over with media coverage about the new financial regulatory blueprint spearheaded by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Cries may be loud about the need for new oversight but one Paulson message stands clear: U.S. business must remain competitive in an increasingly global economy. Executives...
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Cerberus to bar withdrawals from two funds
- Cerberus, the investment group, is barring investors in two new hedge funds from withdrawing money for three years in an effort to avoid a repeat of the large outflows that followed its lossmaking purchases of Chrysler and GMAC, the group's executives said. The move to introduce a three-year "lock-up" is...
- News items 2009-09-02
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