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Can Investors Make Money in a Low-Growth Industrial Economy? 17 May 2013 | 04:47 pm
The easy money has been made. I am not referring to picking the market bottom reached on May 9, 2009. That would have been speculation, not investment. In fact, just six months before I attended a con...
Linkfest: Dimon not ‘Mr. Indispensable’; The 1999 comparison 17 May 2013 | 03:28 pm
Linkfest.com finds today’s top headlines by following the best ‘curators’ on the Web and on Twitter, and by your votes and social media shares – pick the most important stories you think should appear...
Book Review: The Hour between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust 17 May 2013 | 06:43 am
John Coates, senior research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge, offers a number of fascinating lessons from a booming new field, the biology of risk, revealing how risk...
13F Watch: Funds Add Health Care and Trim Technology as Activists Take Center Stage 16 May 2013 | 07:04 pm
In the first quarter of 2013, institutional investors added to their equity holdings in the healthcare sector while reducing their exposure to the technology stocks. Among the most widely held stocks,...
Asia and the Future of Finance: Restoring Trust Is an Urgent Task 16 May 2013 | 06:03 pm
Asia holds an eminent position in the post-crisis global financial order. The region is also poised to lead global economic growth this century: The Asian Development Bank forecasts that Asian economi...
Quant Magic: A Book Review of Quantitative Value, by Wesley Gray and Tobias Carlisle 16 May 2013 | 04:10 pm
Financial statement analysis and security valuation are a big part of our training as CFA charterholders; for many of us, they are the most important part. We pride ourselves on the thoroughness, soph...
Linkfest: Dimon indispensable? Housing bubbles; Soros dumps gold; Arrows hit Fed from all quarters; Watered-down RFQ rules 16 May 2013 | 03:37 pm
Linkfest.com finds today’s top headlines by following the best ‘curators’ on the Web and on Twitter, and by your votes and social media shares – pick the most important stories you think should appear...
Financial Reporting Disclosure Reform: Need for Investor Input 16 May 2013 | 11:00 am
Currently there are initiatives underway to create an overarching framework to improve financial statement disclosures. The “disclosure framework” is intended to help enable companies communicate more...
Take 15: QFII, RQFII, and the IPO Pipeline: A New Era for China A-Shares? (Video) 16 May 2013 | 09:03 am
With unprecedented changes in the foreign institutional investor quota and related rules, as well as the hint of further new policy moves by the government, the China A-Shares market is starting to at...
Poll: Should Fund Managers Be Required to Disclose Their Holdings Every Quarter? 16 May 2013 | 08:04 am
In a recent poll conducted in the CFA Institute Financial NewsBrief, we asked readers, “Should fund managers be required to disclose their portfolio holdings on a quarterly basis?" Nearly 77% of the 7...
