… Bacon's international fame and influence spread during his last years, when he was able to
… To the present day Bacon is well known for his treatises on empiricist natural philosophy (…

This article compares the annualized returns from various dollar-cost averaging strategies
with those produced by lump-sum investing from 1926 to 1991. For all time periods and …

This paper clears up ambiguities that continue to persist regarding the proper evaluation of
mutually exclusive projects. It is demonstrated that the net present value method, properly …

Lowering the subscription price increases the probability of a successful issue and has no
adverse impact on stock price performance following the issue. Financial managers should, …

This article uses responses to a mail questionnaire survey of financial planning professionals
to assess the state of the art in financial planning as it relates to long-term catastrophic …

One of many problems facing the financial manager today is how to deal with the possibility
of wide fluctuations in the future level of interest rates. This article demonstrates how interest …

… The most fundamental contribution, in my opinion, is Peter Beal's account of Bacon in his
monumental Index to English Literary Manuscripts of the Renaissance.'0 Beal has located (and …

… an integrated understanding of Bacon's conceptions in various domains but to enable the
reader to gain an acquaintance with his many writings. I have had Bacon on my mind ever …

Conventional wisdom seems to be that a dollar-cost averaging (DCA) approach is preferred
when investing in bond markets. Although recent studies have cast considerable doubt on …

This article examines a common problem facing many investors, namely whether to invest a
large cash endowment immediately in stocks or to use a dollar-cost-averaging (DCA) …