Finance and Investment

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• Debt Management: Manage Your Debts To Regain Financial Freedom

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 159
  Individuals from varying professional and economic backgrounds have little or poor Debt Management skills and now find themselves trapped in a downward economic twist, mostly through unemployment or corporate downsizing, to live on credit by acquiring more and more money from their banks, by using one or several ...
  4 days ago

• M&A Is Back -- But This Time, Its Different

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 133
  If the past month is any indicator, acquisitions are not only thawing but heating up. In October, Comcast made a bid to merge its operations with NBC Universal to create a cable programming giant. In early November, Kraft Foods announced a $16.5 billion bid for U.K.-based chocolate maker Cadbury -- also being sought ...
  6 days ago

• Apollo Managements Marc Rowan: The Best Returns Follow Chaos

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 133
  Marc Rowan, founding partner of Apollo Management, one of the worlds largest private equity investment firms, makes it sound simple: Stick to the fundamentals -- that is, buy a good business at a low price -- and you ultimately will see returns. Of course, identifying those businesses is the challenge. Rowan, who was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Efficient Markets or Herd Mentality? The Future of Economic Forecasting

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 133
  Once on the academic fringes, behavioral economics has been gaining considerable ground over the past year. While not all economists, government policy makers and corporate financiers agree wholeheartedly with behavioral economists assertion that markets are inefficient and irrational, its difficult in the wake of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lessons from Brazil: Why Is It Bouncing Back While Other Markets Stumble?

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 133
  The sense of optimism in Brazil is palpable and its not just because the country is getting ready to host soccers World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016. Brazils economy was the first in Latin America to stage a recovery following the global economic crisis -- in the second quarter of this year. What has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lean Financial Services - Cutting Costs While Reducing Risks

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 133
  The financial services sector has been slow to adopt lean tools and practices, but thats changing. As more banks discover the benefits of lean operations -- such as lower costs, fewer errors, faster cycle times and far greater efficiency -- wide-scale adoption by the industry is just a matter of time.
  2 weeks ago

• The Post-recessionary Global Economy: In Search of the New Normal

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 133
  The days of loose rules, easy credit and lax oversight, which led to excesses on many fronts, are ending. As the global economy climbs slowly towards recovery, two pressing questions remain: First, how do we prevent things from getting out of control again? And second, what is the so-called new normal? Speakers at the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The merits of a slowdown

  
  The price of everything — Authority: 104
  “Cheaper toys ‘are Christmashits’ ”   -        BBCNews website, 28 October 2009.   Stop all the clocks, wrote W.H.Auden once, and he had the right idea. One of the irritations of modern westernsociety is an always-on consumption culture that lives not so much in thehere-and-now but in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Crackdown on Executive Pay: Too Much or Not Enough?

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 133
  Last week, the Obama administrations "pay czar," Kenneth Feinberg, announced that the government will impose caps on compensation for the 25 highest-paid executives at seven companies that received "exceptional assistance" through the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- including American International Group (AIG), Bank ...
  4 weeks ago

• Starved for Financing: Is There Relief in Sight for U.S. Small Businesses?

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 133
  President Obamas recent move to funnel more credit to small businesses comes at a time when a fragile recovery appears to be underway in that sector. If Congress approves Obamas plan, the measures would enable community banks to borrow at low rates from the Treasury Departments Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), so ...
  4 weeks ago

• Homebuying Basics – Negotiating The Best Price For Your Home

  
  http://mymeanbiz.com/theinvestorshaven — Authority: 152
  After you’ve spent enough time doing all of the research about your prospective home and are comfortable with working with the seller, it’s time to make the offer. However, the home buying offer isn’t the end of the sales process; you may be involved with negotiating a price after making the offer if the seller ...
  5 weeks ago

• How To Negotiate The Best Price For Your First Home

  
  Stock Market Educator — Authority: 143
  You submit an offer to buy a home only after youve done your research about your prospective home and if youre already comfortable dealing with the seller. You still have to do some work after youve made your offer though. A seller can either accept or reject an offer. Be prepared to negotiate your way through in ...
  5 weeks ago

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