The theoretical engagement with the law of Equity has never been so popular as nowadays. This immensely important body of law is now attracting the attention of private law theoreticians as questions that were first raised by Aristotle take a modern twist, and entrenched traditions are being...

This Review discusses three developments in equity jurisprudence drawn from significant recent decisions of the Privy Council, the House of Lords, the High Court of Australia and Supreme Court of Canada. The developments are of importance and interest in New Zealand

This paper contains a brief discussion of shareholders' equity in the company. Equity is the owner's right to the company's assets after all obligations are paid. The equity of a company can be calculated by subtracting the company's liabilities from the company's total assets. In other words,...

We study the implications of the value at risk concept for the bank's optimum amount of equity capital under credit risk. The market value of loans is risky and lognormally distributed. We show that the required equity capital depends upon managerial and market factors. Furthermore, the bank's...

Stock picking is the field of financial analysis that is of particular interest for many professional investors and researchers. In this study stock picking is implemented via binary classification trees. Optimal tree size is believed to be the crucial factor in forecasting performance of the...

The aim of the article is to present the method of establishing equity shares in weight average cost of capital (WACC), in which the value of loan capital results from the fixed assumptions accepted in the financial plan (for example a schedule of loan repayment) and own equity is evaluated by...