Investors in People

Investors in People , a Strategy to Improve Existing Good Practice

Anchor Investors in IPOs

Anchor Investors in IPOs In July 2009, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) permitted a version of bookbuilding in which IPO managers solicit bids from and allocate allocations to anchor investors in the IPO pre-market, subject to disclosure of the price, quantity, and identity of anchors participating in the pre-market bookbuilding. We obtain share allocation data in anchor IPOs. ...

Protecting investors

On December 15, 2010, after 11 months of legal standoff, the Swiss corporation Novartis finally closed a deal to acquire the remaining shares of eye-care company Alcon from minority shareholders. Why did it take almost a year? The acquisition had become a relatedparty transaction after Novartis purchased a 25% stake from then majority shareholder Nestlé and nominated some of its own directors t...

Investors and Management Practice:

Schizophrenic Representative Investors

Representative investors whose behavior is modeled by a deterministic finite automaton generate complexity both in the time series of each asset and in the cross-sectional correlation when the rule governing their behavior is schizophrenic, meaning the investor holds multiple seemingly contradictory beliefs simultaneously, either by switching between two different rules at each time step, or co...