We use the share pledge context in China to examine how affiliated analysts whose securities companies are pledgees of share pledge firms issue stock recommendations on these listed firms. We find that their recommendations are more optimistic than those of non-affiliated analysts, and they are...

Künstliche Intelligenz gehört immer mehr zu den Fokusthemen im Bereich Digitalisierung und digitaler Transformation. Diese Technologie setzt sich mit der Automatisierung von intelligentem Verhalten auseinander und bietet sowohl im privaten als auch im gewerblichen Bereich weitreichende...

In this study, we analyze the forecast accuracy and profitability of buy recommendations published in five major German financial magazines for private households based on fundamental analysis. The results show a high average forecast accuracy but with a very high standard deviation, which...

"Financial services professionals around the world are experiencing a historic inflection point in their industry. Ever-increasing regulation, heightened scrutiny, and eroded value propositions in confluence have exposed the vacuous and exaggerated value propositions that financial professionals...

"Value Investing provides the fundamental technique of value investing as practiced by the greatest value investors, such as Warren Buffet, Michael Price, Mario Gabelli, and Walter Schloss. The authors enrich the discipline of value investing by exploring its history, explaining its underlying...

"The fundamental motive for financial innovation is not to make the system work better, but to avoid regulation and oversight. This is not a bug of the financial system, but a built-in feature. The president of the US is not a tax avoider because he is an especially fraudulent financier; he's a...

"In the world of financial services, networking and trust building is much more effective for building new business than traditional sales tactics. Financial advisors, insurance agents, bankers, and hedge fund managers must develop relationships to sell their products otherwise they will fail....

In this chapter, we first discuss the limitations of traditional financial advice, which led to the emergence of robo-advising. We then describe the main features of robo-advising and propose a taxonomy of robo-advisors based on four defining dimensions - personalization, discretion,...

Introduction -- International trends in financial adviser regulation -- Legitimacy of current licensee-adviser licensing for australian financial advisers -- Research paradigm, methodology and SEM design -- Contextualising current licensing of financial advisers : preliminary analysis using...

We examine how the numeracy level of employees influences the quality of their on-the-job decisions. Based on an administrative dataset of a retail bank we relate the performance of loan officers in a standardized math test to the accuracy of their credit assessments of small business borrowers....

We analyze firms' competition to steer an advisor's recommendations through potentially non-linear incentives. Even when firms are symmetric, so that the overall size of compensation would not distort advice when incentives were linear, advice is biased when firms are allowed to make...