Professor Sebastien Betermier wins CFR Best paper award
Professor Sebastien Betermier wins 2015 CFR Best Paper Award听at the 14th Colloquium on Financial Markets
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鈥淲ho are the Value and Growth Investors?鈥�
Authors:听 Sebastien Betermier, Laurent Calvet and Paolo Sodini
Insider Trading Investigators Have a Blind Spot
Over the past year, a record 266 companies have spun off divisions in a trend bankers are calling 鈥淪pinmania.鈥� If history is any guide, about 35 of those deals will have leaked undetected to inside traders.
Unwanted life insurance can be a valuable asset for seniors鈥� retirement
Seniors looking for an additional source of income should think twice about letting unwanted life insurance lapse, because these policies may be sold for substantial value to help fund a better quality of life in their retirement.
Approche toujours controvers茅e
Le d茅bat continue de faire rage : l'anticipation des march茅s, commun茅ment appel茅e 芦market timing禄, est-elle une approche payante ou au contraire, nuisible et dangereuse ? Les avis sont partag茅s.听Il y a plusieurs d茅finitions du market timing.
脢tes-vous valeur ou croissance?
Pr茅f茅rez-vous les valeurs sous-茅valu茅es, voire d茅laiss茅es, ou les titres qui croissent plus rapidement que le march茅? Valeur ou croissance? Vos choix d'investissement trahissent probablement votre 芒ge et votre sexe.
The boom-and-bust Fed's rental society
Article By Reuven Brenner听Now, as during World War II and up to 1951, the US Federal Reserve practiced what is now called quantitative easing (QE). Then, as now, nominal interest rates were low and the real ones negative: The Fed鈥檚 policy did not so much induce investments as it allowed the government to accumulate debts, and prevent default.听
Personnalit茅 de la Semaine: Olivier Babin
脌 19 ans, Olivier Babin poss猫de d茅j脿 une impressionnante feuille de route, o霉 foisonnent prix, mentions, bourses et honneurs. Retour sur le parcours fulgurant d鈥檜ne jeune 茅toile de la finance.
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.听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听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,听Patrick Augustin, Assistant Professor of Finance, Desautels Faculty of Management, 韩国裸舞.听Watch full video:听Business News Network
Lettre Ouverte aux Investisseurs Irresponsables
J鈥檃i toujours consid茅r茅 l鈥檌nvestissement et la Bourse comme l鈥檜ne des activit茅s humaines parmi les plus stimulantes qui soient.
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听(IRRCi) annual investor research competition that focuses on the interaction of the real economy with investment theory.听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.听
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,听Adolfo; Ortega, Jaime A.
Publication: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, December 2013
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