investment decision

In 2019, there were over 4,700 seed-stage investments globally, along with significant recent interest in how resources are mobilized during the earliest stages of the entrepreneurial journey. Seed-stage startups work towards fin ...

Information technology (IT) business-alignment is a key component of managing data and information within the context of business operations. However, achieving this can be quite difficult for many businesses due to being time-con ...

Chinese venture capital (VC) firms suffer from imperfect information and poor legal protections when deciding whether to continue to invest in a company or cut it loose, according to HKUST researcher Yanfeng Zheng and a colleague. ...

How and why can irrelevant, short-lived factors shape investment decisions? This can happen in investment decisions in nascent, seed-stage startups, where information is scarce and uncertainty is intense. Taking sunshine on the d ...

Before providing individual investors with any investment advice or recommendations, financial consultants would usually conduct risk assessments for them in face-to-face meetings. Nevertheless, with the advancement of Fintech, co ...

Crowdfunding—collecting small donations from a large number of investors—is an increasingly popular way of raising capital, particularly for creative projects. With the rise of crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarte ...

Mean-variance analysis is a tool used to make investment decisions by weighing risk (or variance) against expected returns. It helps investors determine how much risk they are willing to accept in exchange for bigger (or smaller) ...

Financial analysts are important information intermediaries in capital markets. Traditional research outputs of analysts, such as buy/sell recommendations and EPS forecasts, have been the mainstream focus of market participants. I ...

An earnings announcement – a public statement of a company’s profitability, usually issued on a quarterly basis – provides useful information to assess peer firms’ expected cash flows, as well as the uncert ...

Currency carry trading is an investment strategy whereby traders invest in high-interest rate currencies and fund in low-interest rate ones. Historically, this trade has generated substantial returns. Typical analysis of the trade ...