Journal of Equipment Lease Financing

Articles in the Journal of Equipment Lease Financing are intended to offer responsible, timely, in-depth analysis of market segments, finance sourcing, marketing and sales opportunities, liability management, tax laws regulatory issues, and current research in the field. Controversy is not shunned. If you have something important to say and would like to be published in the industry’s most valuable educational Journal, call 202.238.3400.

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CONTENTS:

Are People Still Your Most Important Asset?
Financing Alternative Energy in 2010...
Protecting Rail Assets in Emerging Markets...

Are People Still Your Most Important Asset?

By Larry Hartmann
Spring 2010

Great leaders read a market and look for opportunity. However, reduced head counts have forced CEOs in all industries to make tough decisions on whom to keep at the executive level. For the past two years, new jobs in the leasing industry have declined. A recruiter looks at executive level hiring in this industry in the economic downturn.

Financing Alternative Energy in 2010 and Beyond: New Incentives for New Priorities

By Craig M. Kline
Spring 2010

While investments in renewable energy, like all investments, entail risk, investors that are successfully able to establish themselves in the renewable energy market today will find themselves well positioned for success in the new energy economy of tomorrow.

Protecting Rail Assets in Emerging Markets: The Luxembourg Protocol

By Rafael Castillo-Triana
Spring 2010

Creditors have a vital interest in being able to recover the value of assets in emerging countries. With respect to railway rolling stock, countries that adopt the 2007 Luxembourg Protocol to the Cape Town Convention should see consistent application of the rules and legal provisions to mitigate the obvious risks.