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Tag Archives: Financial Research
What’s Next for the Chinese Yuan?
On February 17th, in a significant announcement by Chinese authorities, plans to allow domestic trading of Yuan options against other currencies from April onwards were rolled out, with the fundamental aim of assisting Chinese exporters and importers hedge against currency … Read More…
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Copper – Primer & Outlook
Copper is regarded as the most valuable of primary base metals, barring nickel, even though it is not the largest base metal market in the world. Indeed, it is considered a barometer for the state of the economy, given its … Read More…
Asset Bubbles and Bursts: The Re-emergence of Rational Valuation
Aswath Damodaran, the famed NYU finance professor and High Priest of quantitative valuation, shares a lot with Edward Altman, his equally famous colleague at NYU. (Damodaran penned “Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset”, a … Read More…
Tags analytics, Automotive, business leadership, business strategy, Corporate Restructuring, credit crunch, Distressed Investments, Finance, Financial Research, Financial Services, fundamental research, Investments, Knowledge Process Outsourcing, KPO, research, Strategy, Strategy Research, US Auto Parts, Value Investments, Wall Street outsourcing Leave a comment
“Is it Safe?” The Outlook for Investment in Emerging Markets
There’s a classic scene in the 1976 hit movie, The Marathon Man, in which Laurence Olivier, playing a skilled dentist who is also a Nazi war criminal, is torturing a young Dustin Hoffman. Using his medical know-how and some frightening … Read More…
The (Ir)rationality of Markets
The Financial Times recently reported on a recent survey by the British Chartered Financial Analyst Institute of its members, which found that an increasing proportion believed that markets did not behave rationally: The British CFA recently asked members for the … Read More…
Are We Not Taking Enough Risk…?
…At least when it comes to Innovation and the Venture Capital community? In times of trouble, organizations tend to do two things – 1) Conserve cash and 2) Focus on what you know. This makes perfect sense for most corporates … Read More…
The Credit Crunch and Outsourcing
The recent tumult in the markets – and its reverberations from Wall Street to Main Street – have made the business news channels compulsive viewing for executives across the globe. One group of professionals that have been keeping a close … Read More…
The Smart Cube Financial Services Survey : Implications of The Credit Crunch
Listen or read any news site or publication over the last several months and talk of the economy is never far behind. Recession or no recession, individuals and corporations alike are clearly acting as if we are in one. Housing … Read More…
Offshoring – Taking its place within the Management Toolkit
One of the most intriguing findings from our recent Financial Services survey related to the impact of offshoring (and outsourcing*) on the financial job market – both in recent years as well as today. All in all, 70% of recruiters … Read More…
Is Corporate America Outsourcing Itself Out of Opportunities to Cultivate Future Leaders?
These days, companies aren’t questioning whether to outsource as much as they are pondering how best to go about it. Although still the proverbial hot potato fraught with workforce insecurities, political quagmires, and public relations sensitivities, outsourcing moved from “emerging … Read More…



