When company stock is one of the options in a 401(k) plan then even more serious diversification problems can occur. As the recent Enron experience has highlighted, employees with large company stock holdings in their 401(k) plan can discover that they have lost much of their retirement wealth at the very time that they are also losing their job. Even in less drastic circumstances, concentratin...

The stock market is fluctuating constantly. The rise and fall in stock prices are seemingly random. However, this is not so. Even a minute happening in the company can have a huge effect on the stock price. As each investor buys and sells the stock, the price rises and falls depending on the sale and purchase, the demand and supply. Whether or not an investor buys a particular company's stock i...

Purpose: We examine whether employee ownership in DC plans are explained by either shared capitalism or managerial entrenchment motives. Design/methodology/approach: calculate the average monthly risk-adjusted return (alpha) of each portfolio sorting firms into six groups based on percentage employer stock market value equity. Findings: find that zero-investment strategy buying a without and se...

Stock return is usually considered to be affected by firm’s financial ratios as well as economic variables. Fundamental method assume that stock returns is not solely related to the stock market. Most result come from the company condition , industry situation and whole economy. In this paper, this relationship between stock return and fundamentals is studied using the data for 22 pharmaceutica...

stock return is usually considered to be affected by firm’s financial ratios as well as economic variables. fundamental method assume that stock returns is not solely related to the stock market. most result come from the company condition , industry situation and whole economy. in this paper, this relationship between stock return and fundamentals is studied using the data for 22 pharmaceutica...

This paper investigates how individual characteristics, such as age, salary, job tenure, and gender, influence an individual’s decision to over-invest in company stock and follow naïve diversification rules. Using a new and unique data set from one 401(k) plan with over 73,000 eligible employees, the results suggest that individual characteristics do influence company stock holdings. Ordered pr...

according to recent developments of predicting methodsin financial markets, and since the stock price is one of the mostimportant factors for investment decision-making, and its predictioncan play an important role in this field, the aim of this study is toprovide a model to predict the stock price movement with highaccuracy. accordingly, a hybrid model for predicting the stock pricemovement us...

Managing inventory in distribution systems involves taking decisions on the quantity of inventory to be placed at different stages so that a desired customer service level can be achieved at minimum cost. In this paper, we present the case of the distribution system of an Indian FMCG company, which despite having centralized control takes replenishment decisions based on local stock information...