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• A Safe Stock Market House in South Africa - Editor, 25 July 2007 - No Comments yet

500 million Rand for gross revenue will not knock the socks off any international investor, but a 33% profit margin should make anyone sit up and take notice. The gross and net revenue graphs of the City Lodge Hotels Limited look like an advertisement for new graphic software, and they represent solid and consistent business performance in a trying country environment.

• Spreading Stock Market Literacy - Editor, 24 July 2007 - No Comments yet

How would it be if more people were able to participate in the stock market field directly? All securities would gain if people at large were able to understand complex products such as derivatives, and if investing behavior were to become more rational and widely informed. The numbers of people literate in stock market matters has been a persistent bug bear in drawing broad based funds to the circuit.

• Does Your Stock Market Sport a Volatility Index? - Editor, 23 July 2007 - No Comments yet

Trust Chicago to take the lead in all stock market matters! The current century had not dawned when the VIX was launched in this pioneering metropolis. Though it is expressed in simple percentage terms, the VIX is far from the conventional stock market product to which many investors are accustomed. The VIX is an index of volatility, and allows sophisticated stock market players to trade in general market sentiment, and forecasts of future economic conditions.

• Present Stock Market Valuation of Targeting Decisions - Editor, 13 July 2007 - No Comments yet

Knowledgeable stock market circles invariably value segmentation and targeting operations. Finance professionals never tire of taking pot shots at colleagues in the Marketing function, but categorizing the total market and selecting pieces to address, are moves which always command respect, because they aim to save money and to improve productivity.

• Delivering New Stock Market Values through Revolutionary Work Place Practices - Editor, 12 July 2007 - No Comments yet

The stock market has never been comfortable with executive expense accounts, but has lacked concrete bases to question operating and marketing expenses in detail. Things could be changing in the new electronics age, and it is time for investors to ask hard questions about how their precious funds are used in day-to-day operations.

• Not Easy for the Stock Market to Pick! - Editor, 11 July 2007 - No Comments yet

Global trends mean that you can no longer play the stock market without understanding currency matters. Executives responsible for buying ingredients from other countries, exporting products and services, and for repatriating dividends for foreign group headquarters, have always been seized of relative values between dollars, pounds, euros, yen, and other currencies. However, interest in this area has widened in stock market circles as investors realize that there is good money to be made by forecasting changes in relative values.

• Should the Stock Market Worry About CEO Compensation? - Editor, 10 July 2007 - No Comments yet

Nothing gets the collective stock market goat more than stories of extravagant executive remuneration. Traders and analysts may differ on all kinds of issues, but there is becoming unanimity when talk veers in the directions of bulging pay-packets, bonuses out of proportion to performance, and the high-flying styles of well known figures from the professional world. Trust is at the heart of the stock market model, and most financial circles are not especially known for uncontrolled belief that others will use our precious funds with unvarying integrity!

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