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- Benefiting from the Balanced Scorecard
- Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any business. They showed that financial analysis, which is largely a look backward over past performance, isn’t enough to guide long-term...
- Articles 2007-10-03
- Earnings Manipulation and Managerial investment decisions: Evidence From Sponsored Pension Plans
- Managers appear to manipulate firm earnings when they characterize pension assets to capital markets and alter investment decisions to justify, and capitalize on, these manipulations. This report constructs a measure of the sensitivity of reported earnings to the assumed long-term rate of return on pension assets. Managers are more aggressive...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Portfolio Construction and the True Nature of Cash, Fixed Income and Equities
- A clear understanding about how cash, fixed income and equities behave is essential to successfully managing your investment portfolio. Related to this, a significant factor in preserving and growing your wealth is the creation and management of a sound asset mix strategy. As any experienced investor knows, emotion and investment...
- White papers 2004-04-29
- Emissions Trading and Its Possible Impacts on investment decisions in the Power Sector
- The purpose of this study is to explore how investment decisions in the power generation sector may be modified with the introduction of CO2 emission allowances. To do so, it considers, through a simplified quantitative analysis, power plant costs, and operation and investment changes in the electricity generation over both...
- White papers 2004-04-27
- Harrah's Survey 2003: Profile of the American Casino Gambler
- Profile of the American Casino Gambler: Harrah's Survey 2003 is based on three nationwide studies: the Roper Reports, conducted by Roper ASW, and the U.S. Gaming Panel and A Night in the Life of a Casino Gambler, both conducted by NFO WorldGroup. Some conclusions are, Casino gamblers are more likely...
- White papers 2004-03-02
- Pitfalls In The Modeling Of Forward-Looking Price Setting And investment decisions
- The author discusses some difficulties in a dynamic New-Keynesian model with staggered price setting a la Calvo and a convex capital adjustment cost at the firm level, as considered by Woodford. It is shown that the implied simultaneous price setting and investment decision has not been analyzed properly. Our work...
- White papers 2004-02-11
- Institutions Shift Towards Europe
- There is no doubt that the experience of the last few years has affected and informed the investment decisions of European and US investors. This article records some of the results of a new AltAssets survey that highlights a shift away from the US and from venture capital and towards...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- A Patent Race in a Real Options Setting: Investment Strategy, Valuation, and Return Volatility
- This paper uses a continuous-time real-options methodology to develop a dynamic patent-race model with endogenous hazard rate, in which firms, controlled by venture capitalists, make sequential investment decisions in an environment with three types of uncertainty: market demand uncertainty (containing systematic risk), technological uncertainty (representing idiosyncratic technological risk), and competitive...
- White papers 2003-09-04
- Take Timing Out Of Your Investments With A Well-Managed Fund Of Funds
- Timing is the difference between making and losing money on the exact same investment. Having the money in a money market account is a perfect example of how to preserve capital and take timing out of the investment decision. This is why this article advise to “take timing out” of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Role of Uncertainity in Investment: An Examination of Competing Investment Model Using Commercial Real Estate Data
- Neo-classical investment decision criteria suggest that only the systematic component of the total risk affect the rate of investment, as channeled through the built-asset price. Alternatively, option-base investment model suggests a direct role for total uncertainty in investment decision marketing. To sort out uncertainty role in the investment, they estimate...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Managing Venture Capital investment decisions: A Knowledge-Based Approach
- In the last decade, the venture capital (VC) industry has grown rapidly by most measures. This paper builds a causal map of the investment decision using causal mapping techniques by interviewing venture capitalists (VCs). This map is converted into a causal Bayes net using techniques. Causal Bayes nets are especially...
- White papers 2001-05-21
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- Financial Engines' Chief Investment Officer Authors New Book — The Intelligent Portfolio: Practical Wisdom on Personal Investing from Financial Engines
- PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Financial Engines, a leading provider of independent investment advice and managed accounts, today announced the release of a new book authored by Christopher L. Jones, Financial Engines' Chief Investment Officer, titled, THE INTELLIGENT PORTFOLIO: Practical Wisdom on Personal Investing from Financial Engines (Wiley; May 2008; $27.95;...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Worst of financial crisis is past: Paulson
- WASHINGTON (AFP) — The credit crisis that has scorched international financial markets is on the wane but more shocks are ahead, US Secretary Treasury Henry Paulson told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Wednesday. "The worst is likely to be behind us," Paulson told the...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Smoky Market Foods, Inc. Announces Retention of International Monetary as Its Strategic Advisory Firm
- Smoky Market Foods, Inc. (OTCBB: SMKY) announcedthat it has engaged International Monetary ("IM") as its strategic advisoryfirm to assist in the identification of acquisition financing and relatedcapital resources, provide proprietary investor relations services, adviseon merger and acquisition candidates, and advise the Company's managementon other strategic decisions. "IM has a direct...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Understand Vendor Perception in Small Enterprises
- DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c91005) has announced the addition of "Vendor Perception in Small Enterprises H2 2007 (Databook)" to their offering. This databook from the Technology Trends service helps vendors to understand the perception of technology vendors in small enterprises. The data has been drawn from...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Examine IT Influencers in Large Enterprises
- DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90998) has announced the addition of "IT Influencers in Large Enterprises H2 2007 (Databook)" to their offering. This databook from the Technology Trends service helps vendors to understand who influences IT decision-making in large enterprises. The data has been drawn from interviews...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- This Databook Helps Vendors to Understand Medium Enterprises' Current and Forthcoming Investment in Desktop Management Solutions
- DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c91087) has announced the addition of Desktop Management Investment in Medium-sized Enterprises H2 2007 (Databook) to their offering. This databook from the Technology Trends service helps vendors to understand medium enterprises' current and forthcoming investment in desktop management solutions. The data has...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- This Databook Helps Vendors to Understand Small Enterprises Investment in Desktop Management Solutions
- DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c91064) has announced the addition of "Desktop Management Investment in Small Enterprises H2 2007 (Databook)" to their offering. This databook helps vendors to understand small enterprises' current and forthcoming investment in desktop management solutions. The data has been drawn from interviews with over...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Commentary: Transparency is key to integrity
- Oregon's public contracting laws have moved through several versions over the years, with rewrites and countless other tweaks and changes. As a guiding principle, lawmakers have relied on the concept of ensuring a clear and transparent decision-making process while drafting these laws. For the most part, the laws have worked...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- MSCI Global Investable Market Value and Growth Indices May 2008 Semi-Annual Index Review
- GENEVA -- MSCI Barra (NYSE:MXB), a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, including indices and portfolio risk and performance analytics, announced today changes to the MSCI Global Investable Market Value and Growth Indices - including the Provisional Global Value and Growth Indices as well as the Small Cap...
- Articles 2008-05-06
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