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...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the target and bidder reference points on the method of payment in mergers. When considering initial and final results for target and bidder, the target appears to have more negotiating power than the bidder in achieving the...