Finance & Investing

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1.	Ushering in a 'New Financial World' While Avoiding the Excesses of the Old By Knowledge@Wharton Aug 23, 2010 A panel at the recent Wharton Global Alumni discusses the causes of the economic crisis, the ways in which increased market volatility should be managed, and how the world can address credibility issues related to global imbalances.
2.	Improving Our Financial IQs: Why Managing Money Should Be a Lifetime Skill By Knowledge@Wharton Jun 21, 2010 Annamaria Lusardi, an economics professor at Dartmouth, and Michelle Greene, deputy assistant secretary for financial education and financial access at the U.S. Treasury Department, talk about the Financial Literacy Center recently established by Wharton, Dartmouth and the Rand Corporation, including the Center's goals and why individuals need to be more proactive about their financial health.
3.	Financing the Future: The Evolution of Finance By Franklin Allen, Glenn Yago Apr 8, 2010 Learn to move beyond the noise and reclaim the concept of financial innovation. Throughout history, advances in financing have expanded opportunities and democratized societies, and their potential is still ready to be grasped today.
4.	Banking Reform Proposals: Why They Miss the Mark By Knowledge@Wharton Mar 15, 2010 The Obama administration has proposed several reforms aimed at restricting the activities of big banks, but will these proposals lead to a healthier banking system and help prevent future crises?
5.	Jeremy Siegel on 2010: Good for Stocks, Bad for Bonds -- and Why Interest Rates Will Go Up By Knowledge@Wharton Jan 25, 2010 What's ahead for 2010? Knowledge@Wharton talked with Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel, who sees some hazards, especially for bonds, but expects a good year for stocks.
6.	Starved for Financing: Is There Relief in Sight for U.S. Small Businesses? By Knowledge@Wharton Nov 30, 2009 How quickly will conditions improve for a sector that generates two-thirds of all new jobs in the U.S.?
7.	'Too Big to Fail': Can Regulation Control Systemic Risk? By Knowledge@Wharton Nov 23, 2009 ith the worst of the crisis apparently over, attention now focuses on how to rein in the behemoths without encouraging even riskier behavior. Wharton faculty members offer their suggestions.
8.	The Impact of High-frequency Trading: Manipulation, Distortion or a Better-functioning Market? By Knowledge@Wharton Nov 9, 2009 Wharton faculty and others weigh in on the positives and negatives of high-frequency trading.
9.	Unfreezing Securitization: Restoring the Market's Confidence in Itself By Knowledge@Wharton Oct 5, 2009 The Obama administration's efforts to resuscitate the ailing economy should be focused not only on restoring bank lending, but also on enabling "the flow of securitizations."
10.	Why Stock-price Volatility Should Never Be a Surprise, Even in the Long Run By Knowledge@Wharton Jun 8, 2009 Equities are subject to much wider price swings than previously understood, according to a recent paper co-authored by Wharton finance and economics professor Robert Stambaugh.
11.	Not So Golden: Employees -- and Employers -- Feel the Pinch from Shortfalls in Retirement Funding By Knowledge@Wharton Apr 27, 2009 Whatever comfortable cushion retirees may have had is now gone, and the process of building it back up will be arduous and long.
12.	Jeremy Siegel: 'Once the Market Has Fallen 50%, Your Future Returns Are Even Better' By Knowledge@Wharton Apr 13, 2009 How does the market look for the longer term? In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton finance professor Jeremy J. Siegel says that history provides lots of evidence that stocks remain good long-term investments, especially when they are down 50% from their peak.
13.	Value Above Cost: Driving Superior Financial Performance By Donald E. Sexton Mar 26, 2009 Donald E. Sexton lays out the central premise of his book and discusses tools that marketing and finance managers can use to answer questions about the impact of marketing efforts on an organization’s financial performance.
14.	Protecting Your Retirement Plans in Uncertain Times: Boomers, Do Your Thing Again! By James W. Walker, Linda H. Lewis Feb 12, 2009 In this chapter, you consider how you can effectively make choices affecting your future as a boomer. You need not make choices based on your “phase in life,” but you need to consider why you want to do what you want to do.
15.	CEOs and Market Woes: Is Poor Corporate Governance to Blame? By Knowledge@Wharton Feb 9, 2009 Are the wrong people in charge of top corporations?
16.	Finding Opportunities amid the Wreckage By Knowledge@Wharton Jan 16, 2009 How will the continuing financial turmoil affect one fledgling investment bank's business?
17.	A Billion Here, A Trillion There: Calculating the Cost of Wall Street's Rescue By Knowledge@Wharton Dec 30, 2008 How will the U.S. pay for its plans to prop up the financial sector?
18.	Note to Investors: Don't Play Games with Asset Allocation By Knowledge@Wharton Dec 10, 2008 Learn why it would be a mistake to abandon classic long-term personal finance principles in the face of recent challenges.
19.	Finding Opportunity in a Bear Market By Knowledge@Wharton Dec 1, 2008 Here are some reasons to be optimistic.
20.	The Credit Crisis and Failed Risk Analysis: 'We're Nowhere Near the End Here' By Knowledge@Wharton Aug 15, 2008 What led bankers, their regulators and other government officials to overlook dangerous investments and business models?

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