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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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Allan Murray runs a good interview with Joel Cohen, a former federal prosecutor and insider trading expert. Good points about duty, hedge funds, insider investing and the gray areas surrounding implicit duties for confidentiality. [ht: Finance Professor]
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Rupert Murdoch on Fox News post D8 presentation. He’s pushing the Wall Street Journal as a mainstream paper/product and is pretty blunt about turning off non-payers of premium content. He also claims that he expects similar subscription numbers that the WSJ.com enjoys on the iPad (1MM+). Check out the video below. Watch the latest business [...]
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Interesting analysis on The Atlantic today regarding the WSJ’s paid content experiment on the iPad. Let’s remember (from the article): Apple sold about 500,000 iPad units in its first week 3200 WSJ iPad apps sold so far at $17.29/mo (or bundled together with other editions) 30,000 current WSJ subs trialing a free version of the app [...]
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We’ve written for a while that for certain purposes, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a better mousetrap. As Mutual Funds 2.0, ETFs have introduced: new ways to implement investing ideas (eg. country exposure to Poland, Chile, etc.) made existing ideas easier to trade (leveraged long and short funds, buy-write strategies) provided continuous pricing (unlike Mutual [...]
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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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Interesting interview with Rupert Murdoch himself on the WSJ.com, Google, and premium content. Here’s TechCrunch’s take on what Murdoch has to say: Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving searchers full access to articles on the Wall Street Journal’s website, WSJ.com. Asked whether he [...]
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Martha Stewart was a billionaire in 2001. She floated her own media firm, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, on the New York Stock Exchange in 1999 and witnessed her stock price double just on the first day it began trading. Her T.V. shows combined with magazines and a home furnishing line were just hitting their stride. [...]
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Everyone’s out reporting that Bloomberg, after being rumored as a suitor to pick up trouble biz mag, BusinessWeek, actually closed the deal for a rumored $5 million, an assumption of debt that amounts to over $30 million and a burn-rate of over $800,000/week. Couple of salient points here: Integration issues: Bloomberg has grown with a [...]
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