Naissance Capital to Invest in Firms With Women as Directors - NYTimes.com: "Naissance Capital, based in Zurich, will start the Women’s Leadership Fund in January, which will invest in companies whose boards include women. It also plans to take minority stakes in companies without women on their b ... Read more

White House mulls unwinding too big to fail firms | Politics | Reuters: "A council that includes the U.S. Treasury Secretary would help set policy for dealing with troubled financial firms under White House plans to deal with the 'too big to fail' problem, CNBC television said on Monday citing sourc ... Read more

Want to get in on the Ground floor of a new group? Here is your chance.."The inaugural meeting of The Christian Finance Faculty Association will be held at the Financial Management Association meeting in Reno, Nevada in the Alpine Room of the Nugget Hotel on Friday, October 23, 2009 from 7:00 - 9:00 ... Read more

CHART OF THE DAY: The iPod And Big Mac Indexes Just Don't Work: "...a side-by-side comparison of the Big Mac Index and the iPod Nano Index suggests that these might not really be good metrics for measuring currency valuations. As you can see, the two indexes result in wildly uncorrelated results. If ... Read more

We will be discussing this in class soon! Challenging Modern Portfolio Theory greenfaucet: "The costs of getting in financial stress are high, much less when a firm is teetering on the edge of insolvency. The cost of financing assets goes up dramatically when a company needs financing in bad times.B ... Read more

This is of special interest to SIMM students. It is about Virginia Tech's programs.Finance clubs manage millions, segue into future Wall Street jobs on CollegiateTimes.com: "“They’ve given us the money for two reasons,” said Eric Eichelberger, BASIS co-CEO and senior engineering major. “One ... Read more

Examples of the specific alleged insider trades:Galleon insider trading: 8 trades they allegedly made - Oct. 19, 2009: "The government's case in what it is calling the largest insider trading case involving a U.S. hedge fund contains a detailed list of trades involving household-name companies.Inves ... Read more

KaChing Lets Investors See and Mirror Experts’ Trades - NYTimes.com: "KaChing, a Web site where 400,000 amateur and professional investors manage virtual portfolios. Others have logged on to see what the investors on the site are doing and make the same trades in their own real portfolios.On Monda ... Read more

Interesting articles do appear in Rolling Stone. So now you can say you read it for the finance. :)Wall Street's Naked Swindle : Rolling Stone: "On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody — nobody knows who — made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen. The mystery figure spent $1.7 mill ... Read more

Interview of Jason Zweig on Neuroeconomics -- GuruFocus.com: "'There was a beautiful study that was published in the The Journal of Finance a couple of years ago about the selection of institutional money managers. It basically found that the professionals who pick money managers, in this case it wa ... Read more