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• Mind Games with Your Stocks (Part 2) - Editor, 28 January 2008 - No Comments yet

Mind Games with Your Stocks (Part 1)

Nationalism and Stock Investment

Nationalism is a special form of stock market behavior that transgresses business management principles. India has a particularly destructive stock market culture, where tons of value may be lost for no good business reason. The media, public, and government, all support stock market moves on grounds of social relevance without any regard to economics and profitability. The country’s colonial past results in fundamental opposition to some Anglo-Saxon countries, and acquisitions of European companies are especially celebrated, whether they are judicious in business terms or not. The United States enjoys a special relationship with the Indian stock investment community, since Washington supports outsourcing in the face of mounting unemployment in its own country.

• Lessons from Bureaucrats in Collaborative Stock Value (Part 1) - Editor, 27 January 2008 - No Comments yet

The business management concept of encouraging competition to foster better consumer choices and service levels, has outlived its utility and relevance. Since resources are inevitably limited, a helicopter view of productivity will show that organizations may combat each other without any customer benefits in sight. The dangers of monopoly abuse can be contained through processes and creative controls. Much of branding is psychological in any case. The perspectives of stock investors with respect to illogical competition are different in any case from those of biased executives protecting their patches of turf, because the stock market is the ultimate purveyor of holistic value creation.

• Lessons from Bureaucrats in Collaborative Stock Value (Part 2) - Editor, 27 January 2008 - No Comments yet

Lessons from Bureaucrats in Collaborative Stock Value (Part 1)

Unearthing New Stock Value through a Merger

The Swiss may have very conservative, courteous, and considerate manners, but can be fierce and unrelenting adversaries at the same time. Stock investors who play tennis will think of Roger Federer! This is why outsiders may not be aware of the uncompromising rivalry between Sandoz and Ciba, before the birth of Novartis in 1996. More than a decade has passed since this path-breaking merger, and it has become an object lesson in how collaboration rather than competition can enhance stock value. Research and all management services benefit most when mergers occur, and naturally stock holders share the spoils!

• Is Your Financial Planning Tax Compliant? (Part 1) - Editor, 26 January 2008 - No Comments yet

More than 134 million US citizens filed individual income tax returns in 2005. This colossal figure represented growth over 2004. The adjusted gross income represented by these 2005 tax accounts exceeded $7 trillion, and the figure grew by over 9% over 2004. It appears that our national financial planning is on track, and that we are a nation of honest tax payers! We see similar trends with small enterprises: the number of partnerships approached 3 million in 2005, and reported income grew by over 40%. Impressive as these figures may seem in financial planning terms, they tell only half of the tax compliance story.

• Is Your Financial Planning Tax Compliant? (Part 2) - Editor, 26 January 2008 - No Comments yet

Deductions, Credits, Miscellaneous Income and Personal Financial Planning

Tax rules change every year. Some of them are related to specific events such as Hurricane Katrina or the California fires, but others are more enduring moves to help you save on taxes. Many concessions are time-bound: the best credits for new cars and trucks with hybrid engines last only for the first few units sold, and taper off thereafter. You must join the queue at a friendly auto dealer now, or pay more!

• Global Stock Trading Imperatives (Part 1) - Editor, 25 January 2008 - No Comments yet

Online stock has yet to impact global stock investment, but entries by all reputable stock brokers is set to make this form of stock trading grow by leaps and bounds. Individuals have been rather slow in diversifying their portfolios, but the major financial institutions would have been hit even harder by the sub-prime crisis, had it not been for their foreign investments. The World Bank has paved paths for private capital to play defining roles in the developments of emerging economies, most of which now have Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates between 5% and 10% a year.

• Global Stock Trading Imperatives (Part 2) - Editor, 25 January 2008 - No Comments yet

Global Stock Trading Imperatives (Part 1)

Managing Risks in Stock Trading Abroad

Cataclysmic events in another country can hurt your stocks whether you invest abroad directly, or in the most tangential manner. Come to think of it, all of us may be invested abroad, at least in small degrees, without being aware of it. After all, where do the metals that go in to all the batteries you use originate? What about gasoline? When did you last eat fruit grown in the United States? Global commerce has everyone hooked! This suggest that US residents must end their isolation and know more about what goes on in the rest of the world.

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