Overview of a financial plan -- Tools for financial planning -- Planning with personal financial statements -- Applying time value concepts -- Using tax concepts for planning -- Managing your liquidity -- Banking and interest rates -- Managing your money -- Managing your credit -- Personal...

This study extends the research on closed-end fund performance persistence by investigating whether the persistence of both net asset value (NAV) and market price returns of U.S. registered closed-end funds is related to various fund characteristics. The sample consists of 505 closed-end funds,...

In this article, we assess the stock price performance of 184 firms emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy between 1980 and 2006. We find their mean post-bankruptcy performance to be similar to the performance of their size and-book-to-market control firms, as well as to the performance of their...