Category Archive Investing and Investment

The Standard Model of Finance

Over the past half-century a consensus has formed among experts about the way to run the finances of a company. During the same time period a consensus also formed about the way to manage a portfolio of stocks and bonds. The principles that have emerged all relate to the relationship between investors and the companies [...]
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Make Money 2011 – How to Choose Best Type of Investment

Like fast-food meals, the scope of investing has gone super-sized. As an investor, you’re confronted with more and more types of investments, each with numerous options that usually require a magnifying glass to peruse the fine print. Then, having decided on the type of investment, you must choose from overwhelming numbers of individual investments—more than [...]
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How Procter and Gamble Lost Money

All the financial maneuvering in the world will not save a company whose strategy does not fit reality. Implementation is not the problem, adaptation is. Protecting revenues from currency fluctuations is an irrelevant remedy when the disease is the disappearance of revenues themselves. While P&G lost $157 million in a financial debacle in 1994 (derivative [...]
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