Studies of efficient behavior by expert security analysts show that these analysts develop checklists of ratios that they consider most useful for analyzing a firm in a specific industry. While many financial management and investments books have chapters that explore security analysis using...

After surveying the evolution of the major methodologies in inflation hedging, this study presents a unique methodology that uses principal component factor analysis to separate the effects of variability in the real rate of return from the nominal rate of return. This approach allows the...