Barbara Friedberg, MBA, MS is editor-in-chief of Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance.com where she writes to educate, inspire, and motivate for wealth in money and life. Learn about personal finance from a real life Portfolio Manager & MBA professor! Stop by the website and download a valuable free eBook, 20 Minute Guide to Investing.
Retirement is inevitable. At some point, you will not be able to work.
Robert Teitelman wrote about the scary prospects for retirees in The Looming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It in The Huffington Post.
Corporate SEC documents required by law must include a risk section. Every public company must outline potential risks. Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) initial public offering (IPO) documents included 23 pages of risk.
Know any recent college grads with great full time jobs outside of the technology field? What about those 20 something's scrapping by with a part time job or two?
In Louis Bedigian’s Are Facebook Ads Selling Deception? the question was asked and answered whether the consumer is being abused by finding advertising in their news feeds.
Everywhere you turn, there is Europe fear. The banks are in trouble, and are having difficulty meeting the new capital requirements. The Bloomberg Europe Banks and Financial Services Index is down 33.5% for the year. The sovereign debt crisis shows no signs of abating.
The picture in Europe is eerily similar to the recent United States scenario. What's an investor to do?
“To the extent that the IPO price is a forecast of the secondary market price for the stock, these forecasts are not only biased downward (underpricing), but the range of the forecast (or pricing) errors is huge,” according to The Variability of IPO Initial Returns, Lowry, Officer, and Schwert.
Who doesn't want to get in on the newest, latest, and greatest?
For those of you who've been under a rock the past few days, former Penn State Defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky has single handedly brought down the illustrious Penn State Football program. As an alumnus of the MBA program I am particularly distressed by this.
How Did One Man Destroy the Penn State Football Program?
“Supervision, oversight and monitoring of our own banking systems.
Standing ready to provide backstop liquidity if necessary,”
-Ben Bernanke's depiction of the tools of the U.S.
