All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Corporate Treasury & Finance

This article is based on a survey of corporate executives that states that there is evidence that M&A doesn’t necessarily greatly translate into shareholder value, but there are mergers that do, and that is why people keep at it. Of those surveyed only about half thought that there were either revenue...

1.   Susan Mangiero is correct in highlighting the impact of increasing health care costs.2.   Financial analysts need to be concerned about the impact of retiree health care costs on earnings and the balance sheet.3.   FASB 158 changes the accounting...

The author writes on declining Betas and the impact on share pricing and hurdle-rate selection.  The author properly points out that falling Betas can be used to create hurdle-rates were just too low. The author further notes that Beta came back to historical levels for non-tech stocks. The...

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1.Private equity developing as an alternative investment vehicle. 2.Cashed-up private equity firms will drive changes in host economies.

1. New and innovative ETFs likely to challenge Mutual Funds. 2. Evolving as low cost investment vehicles .

In determining the cost of capital, corporations place a threshold of capital expenditures, acquisition target, and other uses of idle cash. With the changes in market and company directions, many companies have come to realize their beta (a primary element in the cost of capital calculation) has changes...

For years, financial executives have been valuing intellectual property using standard and accepted methods such as cash flow calculations to raise capital, value acquired assets, and determine shareholder value. While the NPV calculation is accepted, much of formula is marred with broad based assumptions...

A truism - Financial  Reporting  has  changed  and  is  evolving at  an  ever  increasing  pace  especially  over  the  last  ten  years. The  referred  article  is  an  elaborate ...

After the successful launching of commercially successful Low Cost Airlines (LCC), the dimension of the capital requirements demanded by their further growth and expansion will force them to switch from private capital sources to those only available through the stock market.