Brave hearts and wise heads
Demography is not destiny, but it sheds light on the events leading to these two referenda, the Quebec one taking place in 1995, and the Scottish one last week, and has also implications concerning the changing voting ages around the world.聽In most countries the voting age is 18. However, the Scottish National Party's voted unanimously in October 2007 to lower it to 16, which subsequently became law.
Third Annual OptionMetrics Research Conference Brings Together International Academia, Financial Professionals to 'Convene' on October 20th in New York City
OptionMetrics, a leading source for quality historical option price data, tools and analytics, has announced the upcoming聽OptionMetrics Research Conference (ORC2014).
Study: Lots of suspicious trading, but not many convictions
According to a new study, insider trading often occurs during merger and acquisitions and is rarely punished. BNN takes a closer look with one of the report's co-authors,聽Patrick Augustin, Assistant Professor of Finance, Desautels Faculty of Management, 香蕉视频.聽Watch full video:聽Business News Network
Lettre Ouverte aux Investisseurs Irresponsables
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Two Groundbreaking Academic Mergers & Acquisitions Studies Win IRRC Institute Investor Research Award at Millstein Governance Forum
Two academic research papers that promise to spark new scrutiny of corporate actions such as mergers and acquisitions have won the prestigious Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute聽(IRRCi) annual investor research competition that focuses on the interaction of the real economy with investment theory.聽The winning research teams will be presented with a $10,000 award for each paper:
A Europe losing cohesion
Ever since France's defeat in 1870-1 in the Franco-Prussian war, when military strength was identified with numerical superiority, demography, language and culture have become permanent parts of, and, at times, the focus of French politics.聽
And the Next Star Fund Manager Is鈥�
Finding a mutual-fund manager who can beat the market is tough. Winners flame out. Losers revive. The resurgent losers flame out again.
No wonder low-cost index-based exchange-traded funds and mutual funds鈥攚hich seek only to mimic the return of a designated slice of the market鈥攈ave eclipsed actively managed funds as the investment of choice for many people.
"Incentives, Capital Budgeting, and Organizational Structure," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Authors: De Motta,聽Adolfo; Ortega, Jaime A.
Publication: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, December 2013
Abstract:
