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I am teaching an online MBA class in Financial Management at St Bonaventure University.  I will be sharing a series of short "classes" on various topics that we cover.  The audio is intended to be used in coordination with the text and notes.  But you can listen even if not in the class! 

Valuation of stocks and bonds rests on Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and market comparable (market multiple) valuation methods.  This short introduction (along with the text and online notes) should help clarify what is often a difficult thing to do.   This is part of the "notes" for MBA 610 at St. Bonaventure University.  It also explains why capital budgeting and valuation are approximately the same thing. 

Behavioral finance is the coming together of psychology, economics, and finance.  It is a fascinating topic that deserves much more coverage.  This is just to introduce you and to whet your appetite!  :)  This is intended to go along with class notes and the textbook for MBA 610.   

A home-run.  A look at the inflation, shortages, and violence that is now widespread in Venezuela.  A talk with Luis Guevara and Juan Farah.   For more here are two helpified paths that will be used in classhttps://helpified.com/paths/venezuela-a-study-in-what-not-to-do-economicallyand https://helpified.com/paths/a-look-at-venezuela   

Rene Pochop is a financial planner from Burlington VT who is on the BonaSIMM (http://BonaSIMM.org) board.  She speaks here on potential conflicts of interest, the importance of your reputation, and ethics.   Here is here bio etc: http://www.pochopfinancial.com/#page  

Tom Cullen (SBU alum and co-founder of Launch Pad Labs) spoke on character and ethics in business.  

Because we missed a "live" class, this is a way for the class to see what I think is important.  It is unedited and a free flow talk on the past week of class.  I would really like to do these every week for my classes if you find it useful. 

Class begins with a look at market efficiency in a classic informational sense, then introduces behavioral finance.  This was from St. Patrick's day, so many people were missing from class

MBA 610 class on portfolio math (week 5).   two questions that usually make it to the test:1. How to calculate the standard deviation of a portfolio.  2. How to find expected return on a portfolio.  

An introduction to Financial Management (MBA 610) at St. Bonaventure University.  This was recorded in the evening section. 

SIMM is Students in Money Management at St. Bonaventure.  We have two portfolios: a traditional equity and fixed income portfolio and an energy hedge fund. For their final in the fall of 2015, I asked the students how we could make SIMM better.  This episode summarizes their suggestions and adds a few of my own. 

Data Sources (not sure why entire thing is not saved) Also data Sources:here are a few data sites.http://www.gapminder.org/data/http://www.data.gov/http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators?cid=GPD_WDIhttps://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/https://www.quandl.com/http://www.google.com/publicdata/directoryarticle w many sites mentionedhttp://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/the-free-big-data-sources-everyone-should-knowEconomics relies on empiricism. Empiricism relies on Data.If you want to do data analysis in lieu of an existing "project" let me know. We will definitely be using this in future classes

Market imperfections, collusion, cartel, tariffs, taxes, and impact of unions

A few short talks on Regressions, Utility, and Indifference curves (NOTE THIS IS NOT A STATS CLASS--intuition and not a real stats class)

Dr . Todd Palmer and I presented to SBU business faculty on some very useful online toolsMy part of the talk is here: http://bit.ly/1OgTqxF

Our third and final lecture on capital structure.  Looks at the costs of having too much debt and introduces pecking order, tradeoff, and hybrid models of security issuance/capital structure. 

We did not dive very deep into any of the topics but covered several in anticipation for next week's exam.  

Part econ, Part finance.  This is mainly introductions (Friday Night class week 1)

This is from my Finance 401 class.  We cover a fast review of IPO process and look at some hypotheses why IPOs are underpriced.  Links: http://site.warrington.ufl.edu/ritter/ipo-data/ 

What lead to the Capital Asset Pricing Model? notes:https://helpified.com/paths/capm-the-capital-asset-pricing-model