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Finance labs computer profiles
The IT team has been deleting the profiles on the lab computers (Wayne Deans Investment Analysis Centre and Leith Wheeler Investment Research Lab) on a regular basis. This will not affect the access or use of the computers; however, this will delete all the saved work on these computers. Please do not save any work […]
Living wage in Canada
In a TED talk, Rutger Bregman mentioned a study conducted by researchers at Harvard, who found that financial stress affects people’s cognitive ability. The study found that people under financial stress performed about 14 IQ points lower than when under less stress. They committed more mistakes and presented slower responses. The effect on cognitive ability can be […]
Bloomberg Training Sessions with a Bloomberg Expert on February 12
We invite you to come out to Bloomberg Training sessions the week before reading week. There will be two training sessions by a Bloomberg expert on February 12. The details are as follows: Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 Location: Leith Wheeler Investment Research Lab (CLC 222) 1:00pm – 1:50pm (PMF students) 2:30pm – 3:20pm (Sauder […]
New database: Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database (FISD)
We have some great news for our Finance faculty and students (and anyone else interested in Finance): David Lam Library has purchased 1 year of access to Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database (FISD). FISD will be available from January 5, 2018 to January, 2019, via the WRDS platform. Mergent FISD is a comprehensive database of […]
McGraw-Hill ebook library
The David Lam Library recently subscribed to three years of access to three modules from McGraw-Hill’s ebook library Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management (30 titles) Finance & Investing (134 titles) Leadership & Management (99 titles) Many of the books are useful as introductory texts. Users can read full-text content online, as content cannot be downloaded. […]
China Stock Market and Accounting Research Database
The David Lam Management Research Library and the UBC Okanagan Library have jointly purchased access to a series of corporate and accounting data for publicly listed companies in China. The China Stock Market & Accounting Research Database provides data on the China stock markets and the financial statements of China’s listed companies. Newly added data […]
Trial access to Capital IQ
UBC students, faculty and staff have trial access to Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ database from January 11 until February 11, 2011. Capital IQ provides detailed coverage of public and private companies, private investment firms, and executives. It also provides data on capital transactions. Capital IQ’s software functionality includes sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools which enable users to screen the database […]