Don’t get lost

A GPS tracking unit is a device that uses the Global Positioning System to determine the precise location of a Fleet Tracking, person, ... nationwide realtime Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) since 1982. Usually, a Fleet GPS Tracking ... or other asset to which it is attached and to record the position of the asset at regular [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 18:20:33

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Revisiting regional banks

As you know from reading my blog, I am expecting a lot of writedowns from regional banks as real estate loans sour ... from: NewsInc Living with SFAS 121: how to avoid (or record) an asset writedown. (Statement of Financial ... Accountant Commercial Property Insurance and Risk Management Managing and Leasing Commercial Properties [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:33:32

Asset Management Software

If you employ the right technology, managing your business assets can be so much simpler ... , all in one click. When shopping around for asset management software, consider three things ... , movement and depreciation. The main point of asset management software is to make recording [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 18:59:21

Will Merrill's "Kitchen Sink" Writedown (MER) Set Bottom For Financials?

After Merrill Lynch (MER) announced it would sell its ABS CDO portfolio for a $4.4 billion loss at $0 ... before it can begin to recover from record low valuations? Atlantis Asset Management analyst Michael Cohn ... be the "watershed" writedown that could set the bottom for financials. At the very least, it gives the market [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 18:13:00

John Bogle’s Six Lessons for Investors

John Bogle had an excellent opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal titled Six Lessons for Investors. His lessons (along with my commentary) ... underrate the importance of asset allocation. 3. Mutual funds with superior performance records often ... , you’re still going to lose money. 5. Look before you leap into alternative asset classes. - It [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:38:14

Should You Invest During a Financial Crisis?

Written on 10/13/2008 by Michael Miles. Michael writes about personal growth, communication, and increasing personal wealth at Effortless Abundance ... and outperform every other asset class over time. Despite enormous social, political and economic ... with excellent track records of profitability and growth, strong management teams, excellent product [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 17:58:05

More Hedge Funds Expected to Succumb

This has been the toughest year on record for hedge funds. Several factors suggest it could get even worse ... chairman of Balyasny Asset Management, a New York hedge fund.The market continues to pummel many funds ... a torrent of withdrawal requests.Instead, a number of firms, including Platinum Grove Asset Management [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 03:52:00

New Yahoo boss – it’s a girl!

Yahoo has announced that Carol Bartz will take over from Jerry Yang as CEO ... the praise and the criticism Bartz has a sterling record from her previous company – software ... but I guess in the world of business it’s an asset. Girl power It’s nice to see a women get a top job [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:24:01

Milan should cash in as City come calling for Kaka

It’s no surprise that Manchester City are likely to make a world-record transfer bid for Ricky Kaka ... why Milan may now take a more pragmatic approach to their prize asset. There is a need to strengthen ... The 22-year-old has been saddled with the “new Zidane” tag for long enough and now is the time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:00:00

Materialism cold turkey and the consequences of.

Since I uploaded Nick's Budapest video this morning I am ruling that my multimedia promise of yesterday has now been fulfilled ... out for a stroll, recording as it did via the GPS tracking facility the 3 miles I managed to achieve ... of hedge funds and further asset downgrades. Massive numbers of job losses are almost inevitable [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 17:33:21

What about GM?

Toyota has a track record of taking over totally dysfunctional GM plants and making them functional by just changing management, with same unions, ... , or contracts.Actually, what changed was not just management, but the whole underlying philosophy on which the plant ... as first class partners in the plant, not as some kind of "asset" to be "managed" [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 11:57:00

TorrentAds looking to sell adverts on BitTorrent sites

Record labels may be trying to find new business models in the digital age, but so are P2P applications and BitTorrent tracker sites ... some of the highest CPMs in the industry”, and claiming to be “the world’s first torrent tracker related advertising network”. News of its launch comes just weeks after US firm Brand Asset Digital unveiled [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 10:52:18

EMI vs Michael Robertson and MP3tunes

p2pnet news view Music | RIAA News:- Anyone dealing with the venal corporate music industry ... out the record labels, “aren’t naming billionaire CEOs of companies they sue as personal defendants, only ... on the digital forefront are forced into all or nothing situations where every asset they own [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 16:09:09

Fed Provides $540 Billion Prop to Money Funds After a Week of Record Inflows

The Fed is throwing a massive lifeline to money market funds AFTER the crisis has passed and investors are entering the pool again on their own ... portfolio rebalancing needs,” the Fed said. Lawrence Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, the asset [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 00:12:36

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