September 20, 2011 – 9:01 am
Academic studies have shown that over the past few decades, public firms are increasingly holding large amounts of cash. Curiously, much of this build up in cash savings can be attributed to cash saved from seasoned share issues, which are sales of equity by already public companies. I examined the share-issuance cash savings of a [...]
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Posted in Accounting, Accounting, domestic
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Also tagged cash, cash flow volatility, corporate tax holiday, corporations, David McLean, economy, equity, Great Recession, MIT Sloan, public firms, R & D, seasoned share issues, share-issuance, stock price, University of Alberta
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August 7, 2011 – 10:09 am
From Dow Jones Marketwatch S.P. Kothari, deputy dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former Barclays fund manager, talks about what investors should look for in choosing an investment adviser to steer them through these turbulent markets. What do you think?
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Posted in Financial Markets
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Also tagged AAA rating, Barclays, credit downgrade, credit rating, debt ceiling, debt crisis, diversified portfolio, double dip, Dow Jones, equities, European debt crisis, expense ratio, Federal Reserve, financial markets, fixed income, investment advisor, investment strategy, Jonathan Burton, Marketwatch, MIT Sloan, Moody's, Obama, personal finance, portfolio, recession, S.P. Kothari, Standard & Poor's, stock market, Timothy Geithner, unemployment
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February 10, 2011 – 9:32 am
It started with Greece and its $100-plus billion bailout package last May. Next came Ireland: in November, it accepted a similarly hefty financial rescue. And now the European debt crisis is at risk of spreading like a virus to countries perceived by the markets to have similar vulnerabilities. Other countries that appear at risk for [...]
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