This short note examines common failures of individual equity investors via the metaphor of the 7 deadly sins of Christian theology. The note appeared in 7 parts in the Sunday Independent, the largest selling newspaper in Ireland, in the April-May 2006 period

In this paper, we shed light on the debate about the financial performance of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds by separately analyzing the contributions of before-fee performance and fees to SRI funds' performance and by investigating the role played by fund management...

The core and fundamental axiom of Islamic finance is the elimination of riba which literally means interest. Islam's unconditional prohibition of riba changes the landscape of the Islamic financial system. Prohibition of interest by Islam is actually an indirect prohibition of pure debt...

Pablo and his wife have five children. As they like traveling by road with the whole family, often including the grandparents, they decided to buy a German van with nine seats. On October 24, 2005, Pablo took the van to the a dealer to have the spare key repaired. But the spare key was not ready...

It is a commonplace of American law that corporations are fictional. This is silly - corporations are all too-real (after all, most of us work for one, most of the physical goods on which we depend are made by them, the quality (and lack of quality) of our physical environment is dependent on...

The emotionally charged debate regarding the broader role of corporations within society has landed squarely in the lap of pension fund and endowment trustees, many of whom are being pressured by their stakeholders to divest themselves of companies that lack so-called social responsibility. Some...

Ethical awareness is growing and the word itself seems to be spreading to all walks of life. In medicine and economics a myriad of ethical committees have sprouted in an attempt to control the potential excesses of science or business transactions. How can one explain this craze for a word that...

Hundreds of articles have been written about various aspects of insider trading. It is one of those topics that is truly interdisciplinary, touching on finance, economics, law, business ethics and perhaps a few other disciplines. Yet with all this research there is still no consensus about when...

In the midst of a time plagued by corporate scandals, Tyco has captured headlines and undoubtedly shocked and appalled many inside and outside the business world. While there is little doubt of Tyco's absence of morality and ethics, blame cannot be simply placed on the organization itself....

Pablo and his wife have five children. As they like traveling by road with the whole family, often including the grandparents, they decided to buy a German van with nine seats. On October 24, 2005, Pablo took the van to the a dealer to have the spare key repaired. But the spare key was not ready...