How valuable are a company’s IT systems, employee skills, culture? For many, they are worth far more than the physical and financial assets that can be tallied on a balance sheet. Measuring the value ...

Other ideas raised by Jarboe for encouraging investment in intangibles include exploring the creation of an Intangibles Mortgage Corporation (Ida Mae) to regularize the intangibles-backed securities ...

As businesses shift toward knowledge-based industries and digital innovation, intangible assets are becoming increasingly important in financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and overall ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. Enterprises are pouring billions into AI. Retail companies alone plan to spend $33.2 million ...

When russia invaded Ukraine, tangible things at first seemed all too important. Bombs and bullets were what mattered; commodity markets were roiled; supply chains were upturned. As the war has gone on ...

This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight Although there is no doubt that brands, IP and intangible assets are valuable, ...

The newer factor models of Hou, Xue, and Zhang and Fama and French, which include measures of asset growth to quantify investment, have been shown to add considerable explanatory power to asset ...

“The growth of intangible assets as a component of company market value is up 35% since 1995, and almost five-fold since 1975.” The strength of many of today’s most valuable companies is based ...