Why Banks Should Use Less Debt Financing By Zaki musthofa at 06.16 In the aftermath of the financial crisis, there have been numerous calls for banks to finance themselves less with debt and more with equity...
How Corporate Credit Ratings Induce Short-Termism By Zaki musthofa at 01.06 Credit rating agencies were under particular scrutiny in the recent financial crisis, as critics argue they gave too high ratings to securit...
Reforming CEO Pay - The Dangers of Short-Term Incentives By Zaki musthofa at 04.59 (This post originally appeared on LinkedIn ) Executive pay is a high-profile topic about which almost everyone has an opinion. Many sharehol...
Time Management Tips to Boost Your Productivity By Zaki musthofa at 09.12 (A shorter version of this article was originally published in CityAM . A talk on time management and personal leadership is here .) At wor...
The public telephone networks By Zaki musthofa at 02.54 Telephone networks are known as public telephone networks. They consist of : Trunk exchange . Local exchange . And lines between them . T...
The Effect of the 2014 World Cup on Stock Markets So Far By Zaki musthofa at 00.07 (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 ...
World Cup fever: Why an England loss will wipe billions off the stock market By Zaki musthofa at 03.17 (This article was originally published in CityAM . A brief, humorous, five-minute talk on the paper is here .) THE WORLD Cup, which starts t...
Underperformance of Companies Holding Meetings in Remote Locations By Zaki musthofa at 05.03 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...
Profiting from momentum strategies - Part 2 By Zaki musthofa at 03.05 The previous post concerned momentum - a strategy of buying past winners and selling past losers. It discussed how this strategy does well ...
Time for a new fence! By Zaki musthofa at 13.18 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....
Profiting from momentum strategies - Part 1 By Zaki musthofa at 04.01 Momentum is arguably the most well-known trading strategy. A simple strategy of buying stocks that have done well over the past 6 months (...
Does corporate social responsibility improve firm value? By Zaki musthofa at 04.21 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 ...
Trading Strategies Based on Analyst Conference Calls By Zaki musthofa at 04.18 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 ...
Top Ten TED Talks By Zaki musthofa at 03.43 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...