Retirement Planning
The Activist Economist
“If one attains positions of power, one should view them as opportunities for social change.” Joseph Stiglitz
This week, the Raffles conversation in Business Times interviewed 2001 Nobel Price winner for economics Joseph Stiglitz. He actually made a comment on the recent subprime woes. For someone critical of IMF’s handling of the asain financial crisis, […]
More information on factoring
Factoring allows you to raise finance based on the value of your outstanding invoices. Factoring also gives you the opportunity to outsource your sales ledger operations and to use more sophisticated credit rating systems. Once you have set up a factoring arrangement with a Factor, it works this way:
Once you make a sale, you invoice […]
Receivables Factoring Explained
Accounts Receivable Factoring also known as factoring, is the sale of invoices at a discount. It is simply a method of financing that is used by businesses to raise capital quickly and improve cash flow without going into debt. What is so nice about receivable financing is that you do not have to wait long […]
Shanghai Composite Index
We know the China Market ain’t cheap. We know we don’t like the trajectory. BUT that doesn’t mean it cannot go higher!
Here we see a broadening top formation. Downside risk is higher than up side. And in my opinion, downside risk of a greater than 50% fall is higher than the potential gain you see […]
SP 500 Top sighted
All technical indicators are also turning down. Depending on the size of the correction, the magnitude could be big and small. An important support to note is around 1480 - 1495 lvl. if it doesnt hold, we may be looking at 1380 - 1400.
Please be safe if you are over allocated in global equities. For […]
Return on Equity versus Return on Capital
This article analyzes the question of whether return on equity (ROE) or return on capital (ROC) is the better guide to performance of an investment.
We’ll start with an example. Two brothers, Abe and Zac, both inherited $10,000 and each decided to start a photocopy business. After one year, Apple, the company started by Abe, had […]
Observations on Risk-Don’t Confuse Liquidity with Brains
Another newly discovered blog. Written by an experienced hand in the fund management industry. I have linked it to my blog at Value Discipline. Here’s an interesting article:
“As my profile indicates, I have been in this business for more than 25 years, in fact come April, it will be thirty years. I suspect I may […]
SPX short term top?
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Knowledge @ Wharton
I found a recommendation of a good starting ground to learn about finance in Wallstraits. Konwledge@Wharton is essentially Wharton business school’s knowledge base. There are so many interesting articles written by Prof Jeremy Siegal, interviews with Carly Fiorina and so on and so forth.
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