The winners from underpriced IPOs
Monday, March 31st, 2008Institutional investors and venture capitalists are the big winners when they orchestrate underpriced IPOs. Other investors suffer
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SOX-related boardroom changes and share price
Monday, March 31st, 2008Sarbabnes-Oxley related changes to governance have affected the share price of companies
SEC litigation and share price
Monday, February 25th, 2008SEC lawsuits have a negative impact on the share price. But are some violations worse than others? Is there a difference between litigation being settled with fines and without? What happens if it’s just left pending? A study answers these questions.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008What impact do restatements have on the share price? Do investors pick up signals before the company decides to come clean? And how do companies that overstate their earnings perform before they actually come out with the truth? A study sheds light.
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007Studies show that the private lives of CEOs have a huge impact on shareholders. Following the death of a child, profitability was roughly 21 per cent lower in the two years after the tragedy. But the share price goes up when the mother-in-law dies.
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