Questions tagged [corporate-finance]
the area of finance dealing with the sources of funding and the capital structure of corporations and the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders
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Do investment managers pick stock portfolios better, on average, than monkeys throwing darts?
Many individuals believe they can make significant quantities of money by stock trading. Much of the financial services industry wants the public to believe that it can take our savings and, by the ...
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Do banks typically lose as much money as they make in the long term?
Nicholas Nassem Taleb makes the following passing statement in his latest meditation on the nature and management of risk (Antifragile):
...businesses with negative optionality (that is, the ...