Shailesh Kumar, MBA, is the founder of Value Stock Guide where he talks about value investing.
For dodgy credits, in any case, spreads are a poor guide to value, especially when yields are low.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a formula to convert PM 2.5 readings into an AQI value that can help guide health-related decisions.
Subsidising the vocational qualifications that employers say they value is supposed to guide people towards training that will lead to better jobs and higher pay.
If history proves any guide, the Value Investing Congress, a two-day affair at a plush Midtown Manhattan hotel, will move markets.
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Instead of the usual ya-boo about sustainability, this is a pragmatic guide to getting more value from less stuff.
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In a 2008 essay highly critical of Dr. Kass's work on the Bush bioethics council, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker questioned the value of dignity as a moral guide.
One guide might be the net present value of future tax payments, minus the net costs of public services disbursed there.
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"There is exposure that could not have been foreseen, " insists Raj Sundaram, president of Automotive Lease Guide, the industry's resale value bible.
We looked at residual value predictions for 2013 models compiled by Automotive Lease Guide and personal injury claims data from the Highway Loss Data Institute.
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The Economist's Big Mac Index, a light-hearted guide to how far currencies are from fair value, provides some answers.
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Steve also believes in the value of having a mentor, someone with business experience who can guide you and keep you going through the difficult times.
The value, according to Bob Overstreet , publisher of the Overstreet Comic Price Guide, could be as high as half a million dollars.
Interestingly enough, the common desktop reference guide "The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" best sums up the Bible's value as a tool of cultural literacy.
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While its tough to predict exactly how much value remains to be created around these more novel targets, its fair to say that if history is any guide it should make for fertile ground.
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This implies several crucial recognitions: that intuition and experience are not sufficient to make all decisions in a way that maximizes shareholder value, that non-experimental methods are not up to the task of determining causality with sufficient reliability to guide many actions, and that experiments can be applied in practice to enough business issues to justify the costs of the capability.
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