New Study Links Corporate Fraud, Earnings Performance To Glassdoor Reviews

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Mark Melin
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With corporate fraud costing the offending stock’s shareholders 22% of the enterprise value, according to a 2014 academic study, how can investors identify stocks where fraud is a problem? Listen to employee’s anonymous ratings on the website Glassdoor, says a new study.   High job satisfaction leads to low corporate fraud instances Glassdoor is a website that enables company employees to rate their employer, the work environment and the quality of executive management in an anonymous setting on a scale of 1 to 5. Academics studied all entries from 2008 to 2015, including 1,112,476 employee ratings of 14,282 public firms….

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.