LEPROFESSEURAnalytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a well known method for making qualitative decisions. AHP provides formal technique for evaluating alternatives in presence of different criteria or attributes. Satty’s (1980) AHP technique is a pairwise comparison method which tries to capture relative judgements about attributes and alternative in a matrix form that ensure consistency. The simplicity […]
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Toronto’s house prices are touching record breaking heights since pandemic started. Is this a signal before storm ? What do you think – please leave your comments below. There are many things to consider. Toronto is the home for many immigrants families from all over the world and consistently attracted people from across the globe. […]
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Hedge funds have become very popular among very wealthy communities as preferred medium of investment. To our knowledge there is no standard definition of hedge funds but common characteristics of hedge fund are: private investment fund which invest in variety of asset classes and employs a great variety of investment strategies. Even during 2008 market […]
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This lecture discusses economics growth, GDP, and business cycle. Economics fluctuations in outputs cause business cycle. If we plot GDP versus time, we come to see an interesting cyclic behavior in GDP which is termed as business cycle. After suffering through contraction phase, economy enters in recession and then recovery and expansion phases. A proper […]
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This lecture discusses discusses 16 rules given by Sir John Templeton of Franklin Templeton Investments. This are some fundamentals for getting true investment wisdom. These may not mean much to speculators or gamblers or people who are involved with quantitative trading business [ quants ]. This lecture helps to understand some key ideas of investing. […]
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This lecture discusses hedge funds, differences between mutual funds and hedge funds, hedge fund strategies, benefits, and risks of hedge funds. Hedge funds are pooled investments which are typically targeted towards high net-worth individuals [ family income more than ~$250k ]. Management fees is usually higher for hedge funds than mutual funds which are targeted […]
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This lecture discusses profitability & growth analysis framework. [ ►Subscribe ] Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your feedback and support. Do not forget to give thumbs-up 🙂 Sincerely, H. 3,097 total views
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This lecture discusses real estate pricing. [ ►Subscribe ] Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your feedback and support. Do not forget to give thumbs-up 🙂 Sincerely, H. 5,516 total views
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This lecture discusses effect of wage increase on labor supply. [ ►Subscribe ] Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your feedback and support. Do not forget to give thumbs-up 🙂 Sincerely, H. 5,632 total views
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This lecture discusses revenue analysis and key questions one should be looking for when doing financial statement analysis. [ ►Subscribe ] Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your feedback and support. Do not forget to give thumbs-up 🙂 Sincerely, H. 2,657 total views
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This lecture discusses consumer theory. Utility with budget set, isoelastic and exponential utility functions are discussed. [ ►Subscribe ] Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your support and feedback. Sincerely, H. 6,803 total views
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This lecture discusses Black-Scholes option pricing model. Black options pricing equation is discussed with variants for commodity pricing, futures, and options on futures. Do not forget to like and [ ►Subscribe ] Leprofesseur } on YouTube. ERRATA: zahid commented: “i think that the dynamic of the price is dSt=\mu St dt+\sigma S dBt (3)” 5,564 total […]
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This lecture discusses convertible bonds. [ ►Subscribe ] Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your feedback and support. Do not forget to give thumbs-up 🙂 Sincerely, H. 6,361 total views
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This lecture discusses risk management in brief, various tools available for hedging risk, derivative instruments, how options can help towards hedging commodities risks, futures and forward contracts, how interest rate swaps work, overview of currency swaps, hedge ratio and about how to setup a hedge. Please [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We […]
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This lecture discusses concept of shadow value and effect of input price changes on firm’s equilibrium condition with respect to profit maximization. Please [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your support and feedback. Sincerely, H. 7,532 total views
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This lecture further discuss production theory in terms of profit maximization choosing labor. A detailed discussion on mathematical formulation of profit equation, complements, and substitutes is presented. Entrepreneur tries to maximize profit, labor and capital are typical inputs to this economic model, delivery services are outputs and the production function’s role is to realize this […]
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This lecture introduces producer theory, cobb-douglas production function, and marginal product. Please [ ►Subscribe ] Leprofesseur } on YouTube. Sincerely, H. 5,650 total views
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This lecture discusses an overview of corporate financing, what options are there for companies to raise money, debt securities etc. Please [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your support. Sincerely, H. 5,574 total views
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This lecture discusses about liability and equity analysis points when doing financial statement analysis. Key questions what one should be looking for when doing liability and equity analysis are discussed. Please [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your support. Sincerely, H. 3,312 total views
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This lecture discusses concept of elasticity in economics. Elasticity of demand and supply is discussed. [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } channel on YouTube. This helps to keep you updated with latest lectures. Sincerely, H. 4,923 total views
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This lecture discusses Value-at-Risk (VaR) concept further with a discussion about how we can calculate VaR for single asset, portfolio of assets, and derivative instruments with a discussion as how we can use VaR for performance measurements. Do not forget to [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } channel on YouTube. Sincerely, H. 7,241 total views
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This lecture discusses basic concepts about options, options valuations, call and put options, American and European options, and some trading strategies for options. Do not forget to [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } on YouTube. Sincerely, H. 7,504 total views
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This lecture discusses asset analysis key points in brief when doing financial statement analysis. Do not forget to [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } on YouTube. We appreciate your feedback. Sincerely, H. 3,120 total views
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This lecture discusses arbitrage pricing theory, and 3-factor model (developed by Famma and French) for asset pricing and portfolio construction. This is the introduction to these models for asset pricing useful for corporate finance course. Thank you for watching the lecture and do not forget to [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } on YouTube. Sincerely, […]
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This lecture discusses basic ideas about portfolio construction and capital asset pricing model. Sincerely, H. 5,240 total views
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This lecture discusses the concept of demand, supply, and economic equilibrium. How the prices and quantity traded tend to move under demand and supply curves. Examples of surplus and shortage are discussed. This important economic concept is applied directly or indirectly in all forms of markets where there is a buyer and there is seller […]
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This lecture provides an introduction to risk, returns and portfolio. Basic concepts about portfolio theory, betas, and risk are discussed. Do not forget to [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } channel on YouTube. We appreciate your support. Do let us know how you are liking the video lectures and how can we improve further. Sincerely, […]
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This is an introductory lecture to the quantitative finance subject area. Assets, markets, why do we need quantitative finance, value at risk (VaR) concepts are discussed. Hope you have enjoyed this lecture. Do not forget to [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } channel on YouTube. We appreciate your support. Sincerely, H. 4,515 total views
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This video lecture is focused on the discussion of accounting analysis. What sort of questions one should put up when analyzing accounting information about companies. Hope you have enjoyed this lecture. Do not forget to [ ►Subscribe ] { Leprofesseur } channel on YouTube. We appreciate your support. Do let us know how you guys […]
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This video lecture discusses supply and its relation to profit. What value of quantity sold maximizes profit, and how we can set up mathematical equation for maximization of profit. Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } channel on YouTube. We appreciate your support. Sincerely, H. 4,256 total views
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This video lecture discusses about net present value and how it is useful when making investment decisions. Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube channel. We appreciate your support. Sincerely, H. 4,975 total views
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This video lecture discusses about basic concepts related to common stock valuation, how the dividends play a major role in valuing the business, discounted cash flow formula in terms of business valuation is discussed. If you need private lessons you may contact at he@Leprofesseur.org Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube channel. This […]
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This lecture discusses about corporate and government bonds, valuation, and yield to maturity. If you need private lessons you may contact at: hr@Leprofesseur.org Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube Channel. Sincerely, H. 4,428 total views
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This video lecture discusses about marginal value, consumer surplus and how we can know calculate it. If you need private lessons, you may contact at: hr@Leprofesseur.org Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube channel. Sincerely, H. 5,216 total views
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This video lecture takes you through basic steps to work with gEcon economics package for R. An example with plots is discussed. A trick to work with latest R software version and gEcon library on Mac operating system is discussed. If you need private lessons, you may contact at: hr@Leprofesseur.org Do not forget to subscribe […]
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This video lecture discusses the strategy analysis, importance and what are the different kind of analysis can be done to access the strategic advantage a firm have in the market. If you need private lessons, you may contact at: hr@Leprofesseur.org. Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube channel. This helps to notify you […]
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This lecture discuss about future value and present value, opportunity cost and how to make use of these when making investment decisions. If you need private lessons, you may contact at: hr@Leprofesseur.org Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube channel. This helps to keep you up-to-date with latest videos. Sincerely, H. 4,200 total views
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This lecture discusses role of financial statements when doing business valuation. If you need private lessons, you may contact at: hr@Leprofesseur.org Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube channel. This helps to keep you up-to-date with latest videos as soon as they are available. Sincerely, H. 2,625 total views
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This lecture introduces economics, what economists do, opportunity cost, sunk cost fallacy. Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube channel. Sincerely, H. 4,564 total views
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This video lecture discusses basic business structuring, role of chief financial officer or financial manager is discussed. Difference between financing decision and investment decision is discussed. This lecture set-up foundation for the corporate finance course. If you need private lessons, you may contact at hr@Leprofesseur.org. Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube channel. […]
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This lecture discusses some important points one needs to be careful while doing balance sheet analysis. Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } Youtube channel. Subscription helps to keep you up-to-date with latest videos. If you like private lessons you may contact at hr@leprofesseur.org. Your comments/feedback are valuable and help to improve contents. Sincerely, […]
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This video lecture discusses income statements, subsidiary companies income and loss, amortization and depreciation issues in context of common stock analysis. Do not forget to subscribe { Leprofesseur } YouTube channel. If you like private consultation/lessons you may contact at: hr@leprofesseur.org Sincerely, H. 2,065 total views
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