nowadays, strategic planning was very important for every company, many companies realize the importance of strategic planning. holding companies have considered this issue. strategic planning in holding multibusinessess company differs from other single companies based on complexities. holding companies are faced with two important strategic decisions: 1) what areas and how investments should ...

Is the bank holding company a vehicle that ought to be used for purposes of public policy to permit banking organizations to perform functions that ought not be performed by banks per se? Or is the bank holding company structure merely an entity with no social function an historical and political accident? The latter view seems to have pervailed in the deliberations of the Commission on Financi...

in today’s competitive business situation, performance evaluation of firms is an extremely important concern of all the people who are typically stakeholders of the business game. in case of holding companies, this is a more important issue since the parent firm must permanently control the situation of its subsidiaries in their sectors to make appropriate investment decisions. this paper devel...

Such high shareholder payouts might be seen as a threat to banking institutions’ capital strength if profitability faltered. However, we find that the sharp rise in shareholder payouts during 1997 appears to have been driven primarily by increases in net stock repurchases rather than by a run-up in dividend payments. The composition of these payouts is important because banking companies can cu...

Many large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends during the recent financial crisis, even as financial market conditions deteriorated, large losses accumulated, and emergency capital and liquidity were being provided by the official sector. In contrast, share repurchases by these BHCs dropped sharply in the early part of the crisis. Documenting this divergent behavior is...