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Spacs: Is It For Real Estate?, Melvyn Teo, Ronald Tan, Indran Thana, Yin Mei Lock Jan 2022

Spacs: Is It For Real Estate?, Melvyn Teo, Ronald Tan, Indran Thana, Yin Mei Lock

Perspectives@SMU

SPACs are gaining popularity but investors should do their homework


What Is The Role Of Large Shareholders In Monitoring Corporate Performance?, Singapore Management University May 2021

What Is The Role Of Large Shareholders In Monitoring Corporate Performance?, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Research in China suggests that increased stock liquidity provides large shareholders incentives to enhance monitoring activities and improve corporate governance


Will A Broader Use Of Auditing Standards Increase Trust?, Singapore Management University Sep 2019

Will A Broader Use Of Auditing Standards Increase Trust?, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Getting non-financial professionals on board may be a double-edged sword


A Taxing Problem, Singapore Management University Oct 2013

A Taxing Problem, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

MNCs move assets and products across borders. How does one know if they are doing so to avoid paying taxes?


Corporate Governance: The Role Of Independent Directors, Singapore Management University Jan 2013

Corporate Governance: The Role Of Independent Directors, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Companies in Singapore may now have to spend more time and resources to look for independent directors for their firms after the recent revised Corporate Governance Code, but the efforts will be worth it, said Jeremy Goh, associate professor of finance at SMU at a panel discussion during the 3rd Singapore Corporate Governance Week.


Financial Literacy And Numerical Ability: Keys To Better Mortgage Outcomes, Singapore Management University Jan 2012

Financial Literacy And Numerical Ability: Keys To Better Mortgage Outcomes, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

While mortgage credit expansion had lead to a rapid increase of home ownership in the US, the reversal of home prices beginning in 2006 resulted in a substantial increase in mortgage delinquencies and an explosion in outright defaults. Its devastating impact on the associated mortgage backed securities led the US and the world to its worst financial and macroeconomic crisis since the Great Depression, with its deleterious effects still felt today.


Building Structured Products: Like Manufacturing A Complex, Abstract Car, Singapore Management University Aug 2011

Building Structured Products: Like Manufacturing A Complex, Abstract Car, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

What are structured products, and how do they fit in with clients' needs and the banks' range of services? Experts from Standard Chartered Bank's (SCB) structuring business provided their take at SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business Public Lecture.