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Has Meir Statman gone off his meds? Does the author of What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions have no clue what investors really want? In a Dow Jones webinar of recent survey results, What Motivates Affluent Investors, Statman tried to make sense of the following data: Affluent [...]
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Something few people know about me: One of my first jobs upon graduating from college was as an analyst for Heidrick and Struggles, one of the premier executive search firms. As a young, intellectually hungry econ grad, I did get a chance to work with some of the best (and worst) Fortune 500 companies to [...]
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The WSJ reported that the CME Group appears to be the leading contender to purchase the News Corp. stock-index business. Acquired as part of News Corp.’s $5.2 billion purchase of Dow Jones in 2007, this is the same business that owns the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The WSJ reports that talks stalled after Dow Jones [...]
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2009 was a great year for firesales of independent research firms (Integrity Research) We have probably witnessed the last glamorous buildings being built for the rest of our lives with the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (Can Turtles Fly?) JP Morgan forecasts a 10.5% rebound in US display advertising in 2010 (TechCrunch) It’s [...]
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I believe the Dow Jones mouthpiece when they say that the executive changes announced yesterday weren’t motivated by cost cutting. Dow Jones chief, Les Hinton was quoted as saying: This structure will provide the focus to make us faster and better than our rivals at identifying and meeting customer needs. This isn’t about personalities, and [...]
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