A simple theory of financial ratios as predictors of failure

JW Wilcox - Journal of accounting research, 1971 - JSTOR
Comparatively little academic attention has been given to the use of financial accounting
numbers in measuring risk.'Several years ago Beaver reported an empirical study of various …

A prediction of business failure using accounting data

JW Wilcox - Journal of accounting research, 1973 - JSTOR
One may usefully rank the potential for failure of similarly sized firms within broadly defined
industries as far ahead as four years. That is the conclusion confirmed by a recent empirical …

The P/B-roe valuation model

JW Wilcox - Financial Analysts Journal, 1984 - Taylor & Francis
A valuation model based on expected growth in book equity, the P/B-ROE model is one of a
wide variety of valuation models derivable from simple economic assumptions. It is useful in …

The gambler's ruin approach to business risk

JW Wilcox - Sloan Management Review (pre-1986), 1976 - search.proquest.com
The inadequacies of traditional measures of financial strength are well known to managers.
The model presented here provides a more reliable alternative to assessing the probability …

Taming frontier markets

JW Wilcox - Journal of Portfolio management, 1992 - search.proquest.com
US institutions are beginning to invest in rapidly developing countries outside established
markets, not only in Southeast Asia but also in Latin America and beyond. The returns have …

[BOOK][B] Financial Advice and Investment Decisions: A Manifesto for Change

JW Wilcox, FJ Fabozzi - 2013 - books.google.com
A practical guide to adapting financial advice and investing to a post crisis world There's no
room for" business as usual" in today's investment management environment. Following the …

Global investing in emerging markets

JW Wilcox - Financial Analysts Journal, 1992 - JSTOR
Six years ago, I said in a speech that" Many firms are in the early stages of redeploying their
assets-up to a third in some cases-to markets outside the US" This sounded pretty …

[PDF][PDF] The P/B-ROE valuation model revisited

JW Wilcox, TK Philips - Journal of Portfolio Management, 2005 - researchgate.net
A two-stage stock valuation model derived from Wilcox’s (1984) P/B-ROE approach is shown
to be a surprisingly effective tool for a broad variety of uses, including the explanation of …

A discretionary wealth approach for investment policy

JW Wilcox, FJ Fabozzi - The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2009 - pm-research.com
In this article, the authors suggest a paradigm for broad investment policy. After briefly
reviewing a point-estimate model based on growing discretionary wealth, they improve that …

The effect of transaction costs and delay on performance drag

JW Wilcox - Financial Analysts Journal, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
Trading a security involves not only the direct costs of commissions and price impact, but also
indirect opportunity costs that arise when a trade cannot be executed or can be executed …