CAPABILITY 1
Human Capital &
the Finance Industry

The case for assessment of
management quality:

1 Competitive edge

• management quality insights
  complement financial data
• Robert Wood (2004) states that
  'being good at trading is not just a
  matter of being smart.
• You also need some level of cognitive ability to be able to process the
  information required to make
  trading decisions
• What information gives traders/sales/analysts
  a competitive edge?

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CAPABILITY 2
Human Capital &
corporations

Human capital analysis is of great value to corporates as they comply with recent financial services legislation and as they seek to communicate more effectively with the financial markets.

Controversy over the lack of perceived transparency between corporations and the financial markets, for example, OneTel, HIH, Enron, Amcor and WorldCom, is driving regulatory change.

Reforms introduced by the Financial Services Reform Act include a requirement for investment products to disclose in their Product Disclosure Statements, the extent to which they take into account labour standards; environmental; social; and ethical considerations.

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