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The Motley Fool
February 8, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Make the Most of Stock Options: The Basics Stock options can give employees of successful companies a huge incentive to work hard toward building shareholder value. Options can be a valuable part of compensation, but you have to manage them well.   |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Hedging Their Risk: Creating a Market for Managerial Stock Options Given the recent volatility in the stock market and the amount of equity top managers often hold, it's not surprising that executives are taking steps to minimize their risk, say Wharton researchers... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages? |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Dueling Fools: Stock Options Bear Companies will have to scale back on exercising new grants or knock down their paychecks. Stock options, that wonderful concept on paper, has been abused badly by compensation committees. Investors, take note. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Angel Ubide |
Demystifying Hedge Funds In an effort to soothe worries about transparency and supervision, public authorities are trying to develop new approaches to meet the public's need for financial system stability and investor protection while enabling investors to enjoy the benefits that hedge funds bring to financial markets. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
Jane Sasseen |
Some CEOs Are Selling Their Companies Short With a little help from their bankers, hedging by CEOs, directors, and other senior executives may deprive investors of clues about impending problems at companies. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Party's Over, Wall Street Nestled inside the $787 billion stimulus bill are a handful of provisions that ended the raucous payday party Wall Street's enjoyed for years. Read on for the most significant. |
CFO
June 1, 2003
Ronald Fink |
Natural Performers Companies are increasingly relying on natural hedges to juggle currency risks. They are forsaking derivatives and matching revenues and costs for the same currency or offsetting losses in one currency with gains in another. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2009
Richards & Hanson |
Why This Speculative Investment Could Ruin Your Savings Currency trading has picked up among retail investors. This is not a good sign. |
CFO
December 1, 2006
Randy Myers |
New Currents in Currency It's relatively simple to hedge foreign-currency risk -- if you can figure out your exposure. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2009
Avinash D. Persaud |
How to Save the Financial System Regulators Redistributing risk, rather than trying to eliminate it, is the key to strengthening the world's banks. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2009
David Williamson |
Will Stopping Oil Speculators Save Our Economy? Oil speculators are increasingly coming under fire, and their days of easy speculation may be coming to an end. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Apple Ages With Dignity Listening to an Apple earnings call without Steve Jobs reminds one how the company really is growing up. Goodbye, Growth Stock City. Hello, Mature Value Stock Valley. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Raghuram Rajan |
Straight Talk Risky Business Even as financial markets evolve, we have to constantly rethink the ways they are regulated and supported by policy, all the while being careful not to snuff out creativity and innovation. Only then will we be able to utilize their true potential. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010 |
How Hedges Work Here are how the two most common hedging strategies work. |
FDIC FYI
March 26, 2003 |
Derivatives Risk in Commercial Banking Derivatives serve an essential role in the U.S. and world economies but also present certain risks to the deposit insurance funds. This article explains what these risks are and describes how they are managed within commercial banking. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Beat the Crowd to These Money-Making Markets A number of moves show a continuing trend. |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Harrington et al. |
The Rush to Hedge Against Black Swan Events Wall Street is seeing a boom in hedge funds that offer protection from market calamities known as "long-tail risks." |
Global Services
August 29, 2007 |
Overcoming the Dollar's Demise During the first half of 2007, the Indian rupee appreciated more against the U.S. dollar than it has in over a decade. The change in valuation is impacting both the IT and BPO providers with billions in exports and corporations with captive units in the country. |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Scott Bernard Nelson |
World View As the dollar declines, set your sights on diversification. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Randall Dodd |
Playing with Fire Firms across the spectrum of emerging markets entered into exotic derivative contracts that caused massive losses |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005
David A. Twibell |
On Neutral Ground Interest in market-neutral strategies exploded during the bear market, and the funds have sustained their popularity through the market's comeback. |
The Motley Fool
May 10, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Speculators Aren't to Blame for Energy Prices Our blame is in the wrong place for high prices at the pump. |
The Motley Fool
July 16, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Stop Demonizing Derivatives Derivatives didn't kill Wall Street; financial institutions did. |
The Motley Fool
June 7, 2004
Chris Mallon |
Shareholder Dilution Delusions Using shareholder cash to stem stock option dilution is a deceptive, wealth-destroying practice. |
Financial Advisor
September 2009
David Lawrence |
Costly Mistakes As financial advisors create their own team practices or go independent and set up independent RIA firms, one of the biggest challenges they face is designing a compensation plan for themselves and those who work with them and for them. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2006
John J. Bowen |
Team Players If your employees don't share in the risks -- and the rewards -- of your financial advisory business, they won't be motivated to do their best. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Neil O'Hara |
Dearth of Easy Pickings? Now that retail investors are able to partake of hedge funds in unprecedented numbers, some are calling hedge investing a bubble about to be popped... Largest SEC Registered Funds of Funds... Hedge Fund Index Performance... |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Casino Capitalism Is Back! With any asset class that has a big move, first the fundamentals attract speculation, then the speculation becomes dominant. In several commodity markets we may be at or dangerously near that point today. |
Financial Advisor
August 2005
Leola Ross |
Hedge Funds Are Suffering And How They Can Recover Some say hedge funds, which sprang into prominence and popularity in the wake of the 2000 stock market crash, are on the decline. But before we doom the entire hedge-fund industry, we need to examine what has gone awry and assess whether there is hope for the future. |
