Beta is a measure of a stock's volatility in relation to the overall market. Betting against beta (BAB) strategies have been developed that perform incredibly well for investors. The basic BAB strategy is to take a short ...
Economics & Business
May 23, 2022
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Fossil fuel companies have access to an obscure legal tool that could jeopardize worldwide efforts to protect the climate, and they're starting to use it. The result could cost countries that press ahead with those efforts ...
Environment
May 9, 2022
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Companies incorporated in tax havens are often considered more opaque regarding their finances, which could make them risky investments. But a recent study from North Carolina State University finds that many of these companies ...
Economics & Business
May 3, 2022
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Financial markets are more efficient than some speculators may want to believe. When it comes to predicting the performance of markets, everyone wants an edge—an advantage that sets them apart from the competition. Getting ...
Economics & Business
Mar 29, 2022
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A new paper in Oxford Open Economics, published by Oxford University Press, shows that the US dollar can be considered as a major global factor that investors look at when making their portfolio allocation decisions in stock ...
Economics & Business
Mar 29, 2022
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Critically endangered black rhinos in South Africa will get help from an unusual source: Wall Street, where institutional investors have expressed a willingness to buy a new type of bond being issued by the World Bank that ...
Ecology
Mar 24, 2022
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Would you invest in a winery whose vineyards might not be able to grow grapes in a decade? Take a job at a factory that might be underwater in 15 years? Buy hamburger from a company that's burning the Brazilian savanna to ...
Economics & Business
Mar 21, 2022
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A new Tel Aviv University study, the first of its kind, examined whether there is a connection between the rapid growth of investment in social investment funds and the decrease in donations to charitable organizations. The ...
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to a massive economic downturn on a par with that experienced in the 2008 financial crash. Work published in the Global Business and Economics Review looks at this crisis from the perspective of ...
Economics & Business
Feb 23, 2022
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In an era when investors can easily find information online about company performance, are traditional reports created by sell-side analysts still useful? Research from Thomas Shohfi, assistant professor in the Lally School ...
Economics & Business
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