Why Banks Should Use Less Debt Financing
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, there have been numerous calls for banks to finance themselves less with debt and more with equity...
Jumat, 21 November 2014
Sabtu, 25 Oktober 2014
How Corporate Credit Ratings Induce Short-Termism
Credit rating agencies were under particular scrutiny in the recent financial crisis, as critics argue they gave too high ratings to securit...
Minggu, 12 Oktober 2014
Reforming CEO Pay - The Dangers of Short-Term Incentives
(This post originally appeared on LinkedIn ) Executive pay is a high-profile topic about which almost everyone has an opinion. Many sharehol...
Sabtu, 23 Agustus 2014
Time Management Tips to Boost Your Productivity
(A shorter version of this article was originally published in CityAM . A talk on time management and personal leadership is here .) At wor...
Sabtu, 19 Juli 2014
The public telephone networks
Telephone networks are known as public telephone networks. They consist of : Trunk exchange . Local exchange . And lines between them . T...
Kamis, 26 Juni 2014
The Effect of the 2014 World Cup on Stock Markets So Far
(Update 15 July) The 2014 World Cup is now over. After Argentina's loss in the final, its market was up 0.2%, underperforming the world ...
Kamis, 12 Juni 2014
World Cup fever: Why an England loss will wipe billions off the stock market
(This article was originally published in CityAM . A brief, humorous, five-minute talk on the paper is here .) THE WORLD Cup, which starts t...
Sabtu, 07 Juni 2014
Underperformance of Companies Holding Meetings in Remote Locations
If a company has bad news that it wishes to hide, where will it hold its shareholder meeting? As far away as possible! That’s the hypothesis...
Minggu, 01 Juni 2014
Profiting from momentum strategies - Part 2
The previous post concerned momentum - a strategy of buying past winners and selling past losers. It discussed how this strategy does well ...
Sabtu, 24 Mei 2014
Time for a new fence!
A few years ago, the Santa Ana winds blew over the longest part of our fence. Together with our neighbors behind us, we got a new one built....
Sabtu, 10 Mei 2014
Profiting from momentum strategies - Part 1
Momentum is arguably the most well-known trading strategy. A simple strategy of buying stocks that have done well over the past 6 months (&q...
Sabtu, 03 Mei 2014
Does corporate social responsibility improve firm value?
Below is an article I wrote two months ago for the World Economic Forum. Since it's posted on the password-protected section of the WEF ...
Minggu, 27 April 2014
Trading Strategies Based on Analyst Conference Calls
The idea from this blog came from the "Extra-Curricular Topics" I teach in my MBA classes, a 10-minute interlude where I teach an ...
Sabtu, 05 April 2014
Top Ten TED Talks
London is a great city, but one of its downsides is that it takes a long time to get to most places. The TED Talks app has significantly enr...
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