Download or read book The Distribution of Stock Ownership According to a Number of Social and Economic Characteristics and an Analysis of Common Stock Purchases by Individual Investors written by Joel B. Freedman and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trends in the Distribution of Stock Ownership written by Edwin Burk Cox and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Download or read book Information Diffusion Effects in Infivudual Investors Common Stock Purchases written by Zoran Ivković and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits written by Philip A. Fisher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-11-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Obtainable
Download or read book Stocks and the Stock Market written by American Academy of Political and Social Science and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broadening the Base of Stock Ownership written by Dartmouth Economic Research Council and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David Scott s Guide to Investing in Common Stocks written by David Logan Scott and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this invaluable resource, financial expert David Scott offers practical guidance for the individual seeking to invest in common stocks. In addition to learning the basics about stocks -- what they represent and how they are valued and traded -- readers will discover - how to select a broker and a brokerage firm, including tips on what to look for and what to avoid - the importance of establishing investment goals before investing in the stock market - where to find information on the stock market and specific stocks - the risks of owning common stocks and how to judge them
Download or read book Break The Wall Street Rule written by Michael Jacobs and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993-04-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Break the Wall Street Rule explains how you can maximize your stock-market returns by acting as a true owner of the companies whose stock you purchase. In his thorough analysis of today's investment landscape, former Treasury Department official Michael T. Jacobs shows that this "effective owner" approach takes the guesswork out of investing and reinvents the relationship between corporations and shareholders. In contrast, the current Wall Street Rule - to sell stock whenever its performance displeases you - actually undermines your returns." "Most investors speculate on stock prices, either buying and selling or paying mutual funds to buy and sell. Such shuffling produces dismal results compared to the overall market; each year three out of four money managers return less than the market average. The real beneficiaries of the Wall Street Rule are the investment industry and company executives who don't want to answer to owners. Jacobs shows that simply by investing for long-term growth, you can beat 95 percent of mutual funds. Even better, in the last decade companies with large effective-owner shareholders earned triple the market average." "With Break the Wall Street Rule investors of any size can become effective owners. In clear language Jacobs explains how small shareholders can utilize the power of institutional investors. There are guidelines for choosing companies structured for the benefit of their shareholders, not to insulate their executives from shareholders. Other chapters describe how to assemble a portfolio and how to calculate whether a stock has paid you back enough." "Many books explain when to buy stocks or which stocks to buy. Break the Wall Street Rule shows how real gains come from what you do once you own a stock. You can use the power of new SEC proxy rules to maximize your returns. You can ensure that management works for shareholders by supporting directors and resolutions that protect your interests, such as connecting pay to performance. Owning only $1000 of stock lets you propose your own shareholder resolutions; Jacobs illuminates the rules and realities of this process. As shown at Sears and GM, shareholders and boards can affect how major corporations are run. In sum, the effective owner philosophy of Break the Wall Street Rule will revolutionize the way you look at stock-market investing."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Common Stock Values and Yields 1950 61 written by Wilford John Eiteman and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Achieve Financial Freedom with Common Stocks written by Stephen Paul Leykauf and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Does as Local is written by Zoran Ivkovich and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Using a data set on the investments made by a large number of retail investors from 1991 to 1996, we find that households exhibit a strong preference for local investment - the average household invests nearly a third of their portfolio in firms headquartered within 250 miles. We test whether this locality bias is driven by information or by simple familiarity. The average household generates an additional return of 3.7% per year from its local holdings relative to its non-local holdings, suggesting local investors are able to exploit local knowledge. The excess return to investing locally is even larger among stocks not in the S & P 500 index (firms where informational asymmetries between local and non-local investors may be largest), while there is no excess return earned by households that invest in local S & P 500 stocks.
Download or read book Validation of Consumer Financial Characteristics written by John B. Forsythe and published by . This book was released on with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the accuracy with which people report holdings of common stock was carried out by the Bureau of the Census with institutional cooperation as a sequel to the Federal Reserve Board Survey of Financial Characteristics (SFC) of 1963 using the same interviewers and identical field and data processing procedures. The results indicate substantial nonreporting of stock ownership, which represents a major source of bias. Nonresponse is positively related to economic status, and holdings reported by the respondents were less than those of the nonrespondents. The size distributions of stock holdings are biased. Perhaps most important, estimates of variances and of confidence intervals computed by the usual standard error formulas are invalid as applied to mean holding of the total population.
Download or read book Common Stocks as Long Term Investments written by Edgar Lawrence Smith and published by Mockingbird Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Stocks as Long Term Investments (1924) by Edgar Lawrence Smith proved for the first time that stocks outperformed bonds in long-term stock market investments. Before Smith's work, the prevailing wisdom regarding investing stated that bonds were a safer investment. Conservative investors would allocate a large portion of their investments to bonds, relying on the annual rate of interest as a sure bet. Stocks, on the other hand, were viewed as risky speculations, due to the market's volatility. Smith himself held that view, before beginning the research for this book. As he told his Harvard class at their 50th reunion, "I tried to write a pamphlet on why bonds were the best form of long term investment. But supporting evidence for this thesis could not be found." Edgar Lawrence Smith (b. 1882, d. 1971) was a Harvard-educated economist and investment manager. While working as an advisor to the brokerage firm Low, Dixon & Company, he began to look at the relative performance of bonds versus stocks. Through 11 case studies completed for Common Stocks as Long Term Investments, Smith proved that the prevailing wisdom in favor of bonds over stocks was wrong. In 10 out of the 11 cases, a $10,000 investment in arbitrarily chosen stocks would have outperformed an equal investment in high-grade bonds. And in the 11th case, the lower return was impacted by two market panics and inflation (in the years 1866-1885). How does Smith account for the better performance of stocks over time? To begin, stocks often grow with or even in excess of inflation. Returns on bonds, on the other hand, lose purchasing power over time due to inflation. In addition, the general march of progress through population growth and improved standards of living over time leads to greater demand for products and services. The trajectory of progress often leads to growth that outpaces inflation, making stocks a better long-term investment. Smith's work supports a long-term investment strategy. He shows that over 15 years, the value of stocks sees a loss only 1.1% of the time. While they may be subject to short-term fluctuations, their long-term reliability makes them a smart investment as part of a balanced portfolio. Smith does not advocate against bonds. He merely suggests that investors give heavier weight to stocks than bonds, rather than the other way around. Famous economists Irving Fisher and John Maynard Keynes praised the book. Keynes invited Smith to join the Royal Economic Society, and Fisher directly stated that he had more confidence in common stocks due to Smith's work. Unfortunately, Smith, Irving, Keynes, and the rest of the world were about to discover that while stocks were generally the best long-term investments, there could still be ruinous market fluctuations. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the ruin of many individuals and businesses. Keynes' fortune was nearly wiped out. Irving lost over $100M in today's dollars. And Smith himself had to sell his own mutual fund firm, Investment Managers Company. In the subsequent years, Smith focused instead on research and writing, rather than working directly in the financial industry. But the long-term reliability of common stocks still holds. Even accounting for large market downturns, a diversified investment portfolio weighted to common stocks is still the clear financial winner when we look at an investment strategy over decades. While Smith suffered from the Crash of '29 (along with the rest of the country, including great economists), his ideas have been backed up since he first published, by Alfred Cowles in 1939 and again by Rex Sinquefield in 1976.
Download or read book Investment Common Stocks written by Chas. D. Barney and Company and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Common Stock Theory of Investment written by Chelcie Clayton Bosland and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Share Ownership in the United States written by Lewis Henry Kimmel and published by Washington : Brookings Institution. This book was released on 1952 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stock Ownership by Managements of Leading U S Corporations written by Brevoort Stout and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
