Equity risk premium and credit rating

See the link below for a paper on equity risk premium

http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/pdfiles/papers/ERP2012.pdf




Standard & Poor's (S&P) is an American financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_%26_Poor's

David Booth: the man who became a billionaire using financial research

Professor Eugene Fama (left) with donor David G. Booth (right) at the donation ceremony



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_G._Booth


His investment strategies, investing in "small" (low capitalization) stocks, as well as "value" (low price/book ratio), were largely from academic financial research.

Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/03/01/the-40-highest-earning-hedge-fund-managers-3/

http://www.cnbc.com/id/46896629/page/6


for old data, please see page 13 and 14 of the slides here,
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/steven.kaplan/research/kgovppt.pdf

A course on hedge funds
http://www.cba.uri.edu/tong/mba570.htm

The disappearing public companies

The Economist magzine published an article last year about disappearing public companies. It is worth reading.

“The endangered public company”

http://www.economist.com/node/21555562

 

Some Corporate Finance suggestions for the Catholic Church

NPR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR) has an interesting piece for the newly elected Pope.


An Economic Makeover For The Catholic Church

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/03/01/173255772/episode-440-an-economic-makeover-for-the-catholic-church