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• Can a ‘Made in USA’ Financial Planning Strategy save Us from Recession? (Part 1) - Editor, 13 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Are we alone? Every country is free to do business here. India and some Middle-East countries are different. Profitable sectors are reserved for local control. US corporations ship jobs overseas. Does this make sense when we have an unemployment issue? It is easy to point fingers at Washington. However, no one is forced to buy foreign goods. Each one of us can take pride in ‘Made in USA’. Will that stimulate our economy?

• Can a ‘Made in USA’ Financial Planning Strategy save Us from Recession? (Part 2) - Editor, 13 February 2008 - No Comments yet
Can a ‘Made in USA’ Financial Planning Strategy save Us from Recession? (Part 1)

Where Can Nationalism Take Financial Planning?

Search engines are ready and waiting if you have never heard of Mahatma Gandhi. He may appear frail and even comic in this century, but Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King count amongst his followers. He fought foreign control over his land and people, through the financial planning weapon of self-reliance. That is pretty much the reverse of globalization. Gandhi asked his fellow country-people to give up clothes made in Great Britain, and to use their own farm inputs instead.

• Price Competition is the Principal Stock Value Destroyer (Part 1) - Editor, 12 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Even rapid business growth has its downsides. Small stock investors are the most affected stakeholders of this aspect of financial planning, because employees, suppliers, bankers, regulators, and private equity can abandon ship well in time. Plateaus of growth and cyclical downturns are ubiquitous to business. Many elements of cost mount inexorably out of management control, but stock investors may feel nothing until it is too late! It is a convention to present voluntary retirement schemes, reductions in head-count, and consolidation moves in cost-saving light, but why allow such structures to develop in the first place? It is glamorous at some junctures to expand market share at the cost of gross operating margins, but they are almost never in the interests of loyal stock investors.

• Price Competition is the Principal Stock Value Destroyer (Part 2) - Editor, 12 February 2008 - No Comments yet
Price Competition is the Principal Stock Value Destroyer (Part 1)

EVA and Risk Perspectives of Operational Pricing Effects on Stocks

A professional manager who is committed to supporting a positive stock price trend has to consider economic value addition (EVA) and the significant risks of a business, when he or she takes diligent decisions regarding pricing decisions for products and services. Outcomes of such thinking may be entirely different from ones which are short-term or poorly-informed about the lasting impacts of direct and indirect price reductions. The telecommunications sector in emerging countries serves as an illustrative example of how stock investors can be affected by pricing decisions at the tactical level.

• Perspective Environmental Scanning for Accurate Stock Price Prediction (Part 1) - Editor, 11 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Forecasting qualities and profits from stocks go hand-in-hand. The stock market mechanism depends largely on differing projections about the future outcomes of current business developments. We have published an article on this web site entitled “Stock Investment Tutorial from Sub-Prime Gainers”. This piece takes the earlier article forward, so that all of us can strive for the professional acumen of former regulators, present consultants, and their distinguished cronies. Though it does help speed up matters if you have buildings full of analysts at your command, classic business management techniques of environmental scanning do not have capital moats of entry barriers.

• Perspective Environmental Scanning for Accurate Stock Price Prediction (Part 2) - Editor, 11 February 2008 - No Comments yet
Perspective Environmental Scanning for Accurate Stock Price Prediction (Part 1)

Networking for Exclusive Financial Planning

There is no established alternative to domain expertise for top stock picks through environmental scanning. You can develop a theory about a business model, and trace life cycle links through academic means. However, you will probably never be certain enough about your modeling to back it with meaningful stock investment decisions. Can you sell blue chips just because of a notion that the future for that sector or player may not be as bright as today? Can you risk your savings on pink stocks just because you feel that they may have great futures? You can certainly aspire to be invited to the right events, but how do you differentiate between small talk and real leads?

• Iroquois Confederacy Fundamentals for National Financial Planning (Part 1) - Editor, 10 February 2008 - No Comments yet

The Declaration of Independence could not have matched the applause that a 2008 State of the Union address or a campaign speech evokes! Is this a pointer to how the United States has evolved over the past two hundred years? Independent observation can be confusing because the lines between a healthy and a sick economy are so blurred! This article brainstorms on alternative financial planning options, using the distant past to chart course for an equally nebulous future. This piece follows from one we have published earlier entitled “Alternative Financial Planning to Revive a Flagging National Economy”.

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