I show you how to use the Bloomberg Professional Service (i.e., the “Bloomberg Terminal”) to execute an Environmental Social Governance (ESG) investing exercise using Bloomberg’s equity screening (EQS) function. Then I show you how to execute a green bond investing exercise using...

I show you how to use the Bloomberg Professional Service (i.e., the “Bloomberg Terminal”) to obtain Bloomberg Environmental Social Governance (ESG) certification.Bloomberg ESG certification is a new self-paced e-learning interactive course that can be taken for free when sitting in front of...

I show you how to use the Bloomberg Professional Service (i.e., the “Bloomberg Terminal”) to obtain Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) certification.BMC certification is a self-paced e-learning interactive course that can be taken for free when sitting in front of the Bloomberg Terminal. It is...

We provide a practical, single-page checklist designed to improve the quality of articles submitted to finance journals. We argue that a combination of factors conspire to produce submissions of early-stage, unpolished articles. These factors include overconfidence, unwarranted optimism, the...

These notes are suitable for university-level students. They provide information on New Zealand taxes for individuals and couples on domestic and foreign bank interest, stocks and bonds, dividends, investment funds, and PIEs. Domestic taxes due on direct and indirect ownership, respectively, of...

Although dependence in financial data is pervasive, standard doctoral-level econometrics texts do not make clear that the common central limit theorems (CLTs) contained therein fail when applied to dependent data. More advanced books that are clear in their CLT assumptions do not contain any...

A computational model of a limit order book is used to study the effect of different limit order distribution offsets. Reference prices such as same side/contra side best market prices and last traded price are considered in combination with different price offset distributions. We show that...

We appear to be the first to present correctly calculated results for the profitability of emerging currency momentum strategies using a long time series and a good cross-sectional sample. Using a 1985–2009 sample period and six emerging currencies, we find that long-short momentum strategies...

Ratio analysis is generally presented as something that has to be calculated after completing other financial statements and is generally viewed, particularly by students, as busy-work with little value. This paper changes the context of ratio analysis in order to demonstrate how a focus on the...