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Show Me the Money: Analyzing Porter’s Five Forces
Imagine you had $1,000 to invest any way you wanted to. What part of the economy would you investigate to find a good bet? Would you go with the airline industry and gamble on the popularity of air...
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Portfolio Management: Making Decisions about Your Investments
“Believe me, it’s not glamorous when it’s midnight on a school night and you’re still up worrying about stocks and other securities and second-guessing yourself,” says Patrick Goldin, the 17-year-old...
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Peter Hand is an investment analyst with the North American Equity Team at Aberdeen Asset Management in Philadelphia. Hand joined Aberdeen full-time in 2010 as a graduate business analyst, having...
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Paul Atkinson is the head of North American Equities at Aberdeen Asset Management in Philadelphia. In that role, he is responsible for all U.S. equity portfolios and team members. Atkinson joined...
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Portfolio Managers: The Challenge Is Making More than One Winning Stock Pick
When Scott Bupb started dabbling in the stock market earlier this year, he had a cool $100,000 to play with. Now, he and his fellow stock pickers are a few dollars shy of his initial investment,...
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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats: The SWOT Analysis
When you are making an equity investment decision, the first place you often turn to is the numbers: how successful has this company been financially? How many shares of stock does it have...
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Peter Hand is an investment analyst with the North American Equity Team at Aberdeen Asset Management in Philadelphia. Hand joined Aberdeen full-time in 2010 as a graduate business analyst, having...
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Financial Literacy: The Voice of South African Youth
Melvis Mirazi, 17, is a senior at Zwelibanzi High School in Durban, South Africa. She traveled to Amsterdam in April along with other members of the Young Girls Network, a group that promotes...
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Building Up Those Bank Accounts: An Amsterdam Student’s View on Global...
In April, hundreds of people related to the finance sector convened in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for the Child & Youth Finance International (CYFI) summit. The CYFI event was the first of its...
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Budgeting Basics: Spending Less than You Earn
Any good discussion on budgeting starts with a discussion about debt, a term simply defined as something owed. Recent statistics point to a debt-laden America. In 2007, the United States Census Bureau...
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Money and Mortarboards: The Growing Graduation Business
Football fans may remember the Chevy commercial that debuted during this year’s Superbowl, featuring an ecstatic graduate (dressed in cap and gown) receiving a yellow Camaro convertible as a gift from...
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Pressure Mounts in the European Debt Crisis
On June 22, the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain met in Rome to discuss pulling Europe out of its debt crisis. It was the latest event in the ongoing economic saga of the European debt...
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Take Command of Your Credit Score
Conscientious high school and college students will put hours of work into improving their Grade Point Averages (GPAs), a score that determines where they rank academically among their student peers....
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Sharing Your Income with Uncle Sam: The Realities of Taxation
U.S. founding father Benjamin Franklin is known for more than a kite, key and lightning — lots more. One of his most often-repeated quotes goes something like this: “In this world, nothing can be said...
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Credit Alert: The Dangers of Overspending and Underpaying
Miles Medina is one of those people who taps into the convenience of plastic by using a debit card and a check card to make most of his purchases. “It’s easier and safer than carrying cash all the...
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A Smart Virtual Cart: How to Be a Savvy Online Consumer
When Muncie, Ind., teen Madeline Grosh finds a really cool pair of shoes online, she will send her parents a quick email with a link as a not-so-subtle hint that these would make a superb birthday...
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Opening a Bank Account: Be the Boss of Your Own Money
Zane Parks hit two big milestones last year: He got his driver’s license and his first checking account. Parks, a senior at Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, Tex., says the bank account...
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Masterpiece Theater: Christie’s, Warhol’s Lady Liberty and the Art Auction...
You have probably seen Pablo Picasso’s cubist violins or Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup cans in posters, books or museums. Some people and companies actually own these seemingly priceless works and a...
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Lady Gaga Fan and Landlord: Willow Tufano’s Real Estate Investments
Willow Tufano Fifteen-year-old Willow Tufano is a skateboarder, a Lady Gaga fan, a home schooled-student and a typical teenager with the exception of one unusual responsibility: She’s also a...
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Credit in China: A Culture of Consumer Spending?
“I’m a little embarrassed.” Liu Jing leaned in closer and lowered her voice, revealing for the first time a hint of discomfort since the topic of credit cards had been broached. After a pause, she...
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