Description: Here’s the best investing advice from Fortune Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: Dec 05, 2016 Link: http://for.tn/2h88lPd Questions for Discussions: Summarize the thinking presented by the panel. Do you agree with any of the assessments and recommendations?
Posts Categorized: Management Issues
Injunction Be Damned! Businesses Forge Ahead With Overtime Changes
Description: New overtime rules were supposed to go into effect December 1. Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: Dec 05, 2016 Link: http://fortune.com/2016/12/05/injunction-be-damned/?iid=leftrail Questions for Discussions: What has happened as a result of decisions taken by businesses and government? Why do you think businesses have chosen this route?
Israel’s Startup Hype Master Faces His Toughest Test Yet
Description: Israel’s most prolific startup hype man is a scruffy 35-year-old named Moshe Hogeg. Source: Bloomberg.com Date: Dec 05, 2016 Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-05/israel-s-startup-hype-master-faces-his-toughest-test-yet Questions for Discussions: Summarize the fund-raising strategies followed by Moshe Hogeg. How are they unconventional?
How Entrepreneurs Can Make Peace With Undiversified Investments
Description: If you’re an entrepreneur, traditional financial advice, starting with the drumbeat of diversification, does not apply to you. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Dec 05, 2016 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/your-money/asset-allocation/how-entrepreneurs-can-make-peace-with-undiversified-investments.html?ref=business Questions for Discussions: What does this article say about the “entrepreneurial view” of personal finances and motivation? Do you think it is a fair evaluation?
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to step down
Description: Howard Schultz stepping down as Starbucks CEO Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Dec 02, 2016 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/investing/2016/12/01/howard-schultz-resigns-starbucks.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Why did the company stock price fall on this news? Do you think the risk level for investors going forward will increase?
Free market manipulations are only delaying the day of reckoning
Description: One of the toughest lessons I’ve learned in life either as a parent, entrepreneur or portfolio manager is when to act and when not to act. I’ve come to the realization, quite often the hard way, that there are times when we do not have real control over certain events and/or circumstances and that… Read more »
Apple nabs obscene share of smartphone profit thanks to Samsung’s Note 7 debacle
Description: Apple Inc. took a record majority of world-wide smartphone profit share in the third quarter as Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plunged in the wake of the disastrous Note 7 recall. Source: MarketWatch.com Date: Nov 25, 2016 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-nabs-obscene-share-of-smartphone-profit-thanks-to-samsungs-note-7-debacle-2016-11-25 Questions for discussion: What are the financial consequences of Samsung’s problems this year? Do you think… Read more »
Wells Fargo Asks Court to Force Customers to Arbitration in Fake Accounts Cases
Description: Wells Fargo has asked a Federal District Court to order dozens of customers who are suing the bank over the opening of unauthorized accounts to resolve their disputes in private arbitrations instead of court, according to legal documents. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Nov 24, 2016 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/business/wells-fargo-asks-court-to-force-customers-to-arbitration-in-fake-accounts-cases.html?ref=business&_r=0 Questions for Discussions: What are the managerial and… Read more »
Former exec arrests keep Valeant from ‘riding into the sunset’ on Philidor controversy
Description: Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. continues to be haunted by its ties to the Philidor speciality pharmacy as former executives from both companies face charges in a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme. Source: FinancialPost.com Date: Nov 17, 2016 Link: http://business.financialpost.com/investing/market-moves/former-valeant-executive-and-former-philidor-ceo-charged-with-fraud-in-pharmacy-probe Questions for discussion: What is the legal case against the firm based on? What are the financial… Read more »
The Money Management Gospel of Yale’s Endowment Guru
Description: As he has done for decades, once a week David F. Swensen convenes his staff — including his cadre of apprentices — for a morning-long meeting among the Gothic revival flourishes and crenelations of the Yale University campus to debate investment ideas. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Nov 05, 2016 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/business/the-money-management-gospel-of-yales-endowment-guru.html?ref=business Questions for discussion: What… Read more »
