GLG News in Accounting & Financial Analysis

1.  Value is defined by risk.  Risk deals with uncertainty of the future.  How a firm manages risk is a major determinant of its value. 2.  Accounting standards are dedicated to reporting the past.  Given it is the past, there is little risk or uncertainty regarding such events.  Merely reporting the past does not give the financial analyst the insights needed. 3. ...

Chinese banks suffered loss from US subprime crisis but still insist to use the asset-backed securities as a alternative financial product to generate income as the China government put stringent rules on loan to curb over heated economy.

Realty brokers are presently the king-pin on metal commodity prices. Small brokers can out perform on quality but on size as large players outperform by sheer quantity. Small brokers as a community has better reach though little un-organised. As globalisation on transactions are happening, small brokers would emerge victorious. Funding to small brokers should have special lines of credit and mechanisms...

The FASB  has  proposed major  changes  to  SFAS 133  which  deals  with  accounting  for  derivatives. The  changes  relate  to  disclosures  in  terms  of  qualitative  aspects, better reporting formats and  risk  disclosures of  derivative  instruments. In  this  analysis ...

Hearing stories in India that L & T has lost substantial money in metal commodities and hearing that in general commodity prices have all gone for a 'sixer', it is hard to believe that there would be a slow-down in realties and real-estate prices as land prices are still going up disproportionately at various centers in India. Prices of commodities are in a way tarnished leaving behind no direction...

NII Holding’s (NasdaqGS:NIHD) recent warning of decreased suscriber growth in 2008 may indicate that the company’s future prospects in Mexico are complex.  In addition, other factors may impair the firm’s average revenue per user (ARPU) and increase the churn rate.

The  decision  of  the  Fed  to  dramatically  reduce  interest rates, guarantee the  assets  of  Bear  Stearns  and  help  JP Morgan  in  the  takeover  of  Bear  are  all  indicative  of  the  fact  that  the  malaise  striking  the US  banking...

Provides a brief, non-technical critique of an academic paper developed to promote and legitimize long/short style asset management.  The article reviews attempts to replicate successful Hedge Fund strategies and resistance to the exorbitant fees typically charged, part payable regardless of actual investment performance The article is correctly skeptical of the paper's approach to measuring...

Sandwiched between US financial powerhouses and Middle Eastern SWF's, the EU is threatening additional financial regulation unless greater transparency is achieved.  Greater attention is being paid as the US subprime lending crisis effects many European investors(institutions and municipalities) unaware of the risks they were assuming through their investments. Aware that self-regulation is...

Though neither party warms to the arrangement, Middle East oil exporters and the US are intertwined in a relationship which has grown in size and strength over the past several decades. Despite our protestations and endless goal setting, oil imports climbed as a share of consumption since the 'war' on energy of the 1970's.  It's simply cheaper to extract oil from the Arabian peninsula and...