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Subject: David Dodd

David LeFevre Dodd (August 23, 1895 – September 18, 1988) was an American educator, financial analyst, author, economist, professional investor, and in his student years, a protégé of, and as a postgraduate, close colleague of Benjamin Graham at Columbia Business School. He attended the University of Pennsylvania. [Wikipedia]

Post Modern Security Analysis

Operational versus financial information

Operations: the How and Why of markets ...

The Crash of 2008 suggests that understanding the operational details of capital markets can be as important as traditional Graham & Dodd security analysis.

This article, Part Nine in the series on Post Modern Security Analysis, discusses Capital Market Taxonomy as applied to market operations and the use of a semantic wiki in collaborative research.

Post Modern Security Analysis

Truth, fact, and opinion

University library + Internet = open source info

In security analysis, it is important to get the facts, before forming an opinion. Effective collaborative research calls for rigorous separation of the fact-gathering from the decision-making stages of the process. This article shows how fact-gathering of open-source information on the Internet could have saved investors from the Madoff calamity.

This is Part Eight in a series on Post Modern Security Analysis.

Post Modern Security Analysis

Intrinsic value

The target of classical security analysis is ‘intrinsic value’, a fuzzy concept defined as the value justified by the facts.

Financial markets have become vastly more complex since the days of Graham & Dodd.

Since the 1960’s, stock prices have generally exceeded ‘intrinsic value’. New techniques are needed now to handle the flood of free investment information.

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, by discouraging companies to go public, will exacerbate the shortage of equities, with a negative effect on the US stock market, although this was not the intent of its authors. Poorly drafted, ill-conceived, and unfair this law does little to protect investors.
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Bond demand exceeds supply for a decade

Over the decade, 1995-2004, the demand for US bonds of all types has surpassed new bond issues in eight of the last ten years. This is the reason that bond prices have held firm, even in 2003, when net new issues reached almost $1.8 trillion. More ...

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