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• Does Stock Price Depend Excessively on Impression Management? (Part 1) - Editor, 19 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Why should you care? Stock price should be proportional to earnings. You buy or hold stocks if business prospects appear bright. The latter could be something stock brokers and the media tell you: you may also be the clever type who goes against the general trend. However, what could this have to do with Impression Management?

• Does Stock Price Depend Excessively on Impression Management? (Part 2) - Editor, 19 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Does Stock Price Depend Excessively on Impression Management? (Part 1)

Track Records of Stock Analysts and Investment Advisors

What if you find business a bore? Does the stock market have space for folks who want superior returns on investments without spending all day on company and economic news? The trick lies in finding reliable advisers. Here is a test: go the archives section of your favorite web site, and find out what stock analysts said this time last year. Greenspan’s present clients made billions from sub prime because they knew about the gathering storm when this consultant of today was still Chair Person of the Federal Reserve. Federal Impression Management did not work with community banks however. They stayed away from sub prime, and have excellent business results for 2007 to show.

• Environmental Scanning for Stocks from the Business of Education (Part 1) - Editor, 14 February 2008 - No Comments yet

It is worth taking the time to understand the term. Everyone scans the environment, from a hungry eagle to a child pitcher on a playground mound. Some of us do it unconsciously, but spotting the most relevant opportunities and threats needs skill. What better way can there be than practicing with live examples? Please visit our earlier piece on this web site with the title “Perspective Environmental Scanning for Accurate Stock Price Prediction”. This article attempts to illustrate the method of Environmental Scanning through an example from the field of education.

• Environmental Scanning for Stocks from the Business of Education (Part 2) - Editor, 14 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Environmental Scanning for Stocks from the Business of Education (Part 1)

The Global Opportunity for Education Stocks

Look around campuses of the best colleges and universities. You are likely to find more ethnic minorities strolling around than on the streets outside. Students from countries such as India and China tend to get good grades. The outsourcing story also points us in the direction of education in emerging countries. There are huge demands to learn spoken English, our working methods, and social habits. The new economies also need scientists and technologists for their growth plans. The net result is an explosion in the demand for quality education.

• 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?

• Stock Investment Tutorial from Sub-Prime Gainers (Part 1) - Editor, 8 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Do not despair that only the rich, powerful, and connected have made windfalls from sub-prime, for the foresight for successful financial planning can be yours as well! Celebrity stock investors of Manhattan employ former Chair People of the US Federal Reserve, while their iconic financial institution neighbors appoint a former British Prime Minister to their Boards, but you can use business management fundamentals to achieve the same financial planning ends. There is never a guarantee that your earnings will match the fairy tale riches of former regulators, ambassadors, and politicians, but the downsides of losses-material and of face-are proportionately lower as well. We can all learn from the calculated moves of sophisticated and successful stock investors, and improve our own financial planning as a specific result. We are pleased to start this new series-participative as always- on how to profit from gross errors of financial governance.

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