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• The People Resource in Valuation of Stocks (Part 1) - Editor, 10 September 2007 - No Comments yet

The Human Resources Development function is less widely appreciated than the glamorous world of marketing. Investors, who are concerned with stocks, often deal with executives from the finance function. However, skilled and experienced professionals from the ‘back-rooms’ of Human Resources may be the real forces of change in improving organizational effectiveness.

• The People Resource in Valuation of Stocks (Part 2) - Editor, 10 September 2007 - No Comments yet

The People Resource in Valuation of Stocks (Part 1)

Time Lags Between Values of Stocks and Key Human Resource Practices

Factors such as employee turnover have not conventionally been used to value stocks. Hence, critical shortages in certain skill sets have begun to affect continued business performance. Diversified and large corporations, with decades of success behind them, may be the most vulnerable, because it is easy for them to overlook the key factors of success in the market place of today.

• The People Resource in Valuation of Stocks (Part 1) - Editor, 10 September 2007 - No Comments yet

The Human Resources Development function is less widely appreciated than the glamorous world of marketing. Investors, who are concerned with stocks, often deal with executives from the finance function. However, skilled and experienced professionals from the ‘back-rooms’ of Human Resources may be the real forces of change in improving organizational effectiveness.

• Stocks and Retirement Plans (Part 1) - Editor, 7 September 2007 - No Comments yet

Stocks should be part of all retirement plans. They can also mitigate the financial distress of a family affected by premature death or disability of a bread-winner (Hallman, and Rosenbloom, 2003). No other form of investment can match the twin benefits of value appreciation and liquidity, which stocks offer. Tracking the strategies and fortunes of individual sectors of the economy and of individual companies, can be a pastime, which is absorbing and profitable at the same time. Individuals may choose stocks directly, or heed the advice of experts (Hallman, and Rosenbloom, 2003). It is also possible to participate in a stock market through mutual funds.

• Stocks and Retirement Plans (Part 2) - Editor, 7 September 2007 - No Comments yet

Stocks and Retirement Plans (Part 1)

Keeping Track of How Your Stocks Fare

Markets tend to move more rapidly than the old system of quarterly reporting is designed to monitor. Professional investors trade by the day if not by the hour. People with careers, especially if their work involves travel, cannot afford this kind of close surveillance, but it is important to set up a scanning system, which alerts investors of changes in markets that can affect valuations of their stocks. There is a popular pre-occupation with Federal interest rate changes, but most enterprises are more affected by demands for their products and services, supplies of key materials, and shortages of skilled human resources, than by their costs of borrowing.

• A Rare Opportunity to Own Loss Making Stocks (Part 1) - Editor, 6 September 2007 - No Comments yet

A shared secret of some of the world’s most successful investors is to buy stocks when they current prices are significantly below intrinsic values. Purchasing stocks of a company, which has never achieved profits, may seem to be an extreme form of such investing behavior, but it can be rational and valid in some circumstances nevertheless.

• A Rare Opportunity to Own Loss Making Stocks (Part 2) - Editor, 6 September 2007 - No Comments yet

A Rare Opportunity to Own Loss Making Stocks (Part 1)

Why Do Leaders Hold Nautilus Stocks?

The insatiable demand for precious and industrial metals from countries such as India and China has led to a desperate scramble to access supplies even from the most unusual quarters (Rondeaux, and Morse, 2007). The bases of such high demands are exceptionally broad, covering diverse industrial sectors and socio-cultural trends as well. Major initiatives by scientists to develop new materials will not impact the applications, which gold and copper have enjoyed since the very beginning of organized industrial activities. There are severe limits, in practical terms, to increase production of these metals from existing and operating mines. There are some terrestrial reserves, which are yet to be worked fully, but their combined scope is thought to be inadequate to meet forecast demand levels.

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