...understanding what the Russell 3000 index is. It is the stock index consisting of the 3000 largest publicly listed U.S. companies, representing about 98% of the total capitalization of the entire U.S. stock market. This index is not quite as popular as the Dow Jones or the S&P 500 but still plays a large role in providing a snapshot of how well the U.S. economy is preforming by valuing demand interest in shares of the largest publically traded companies. It all started in Tacoma Washington 1984 when this firm started a group of index to measure U.S market segments and to better track the performance of investment managers. This index was further divided into smaller sub segments such as the Russell 1000, Russell 2000, and the Russell 3000. The top 3,000 stocks (those of the 3,000 largest companies) make up the broad-market Russell 3000 Index. The top 1,000 of those companies make up the large-cap Russell 1000 Index, and the bottom 2,000 (the smallest companies) make up the small-cap Russell 2000 Index. One question that does not usually get answered is what happens to the indices and how frequently they change. Russell changes its indices once each year in June, called "reconstitution". The reconstitution consists of going through the global list of investable stocks and assigning them to the appropriate indices. The Russell indexes do not immediately replace a company that combines with another firm or has its stock delisted. However, Russell adds Initial Public Offerings...
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...Telecommunications , Pharma, Oil and Energy , Automobile , Steel , Banking, Beverages . * Analyze the current stock price . Analyze one year stock price and returns. * Follow the key statistics link. Discuss the information available on this link. b) The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires that most public companies file regular reports, including annual and quarterly financial statements. The SEC has a public site named EDGAR that makes free reports available at www.sec.gov. Search for Company Filings , Companies & Other Filers , and enter a company name . Discuss the information available . c) In the light of agency costs , critics have charged that compensation to top managers is simply too high and should be cutback . Name five top highest paid executives in 2013. Are these amounts excessive ? . Express your viewpoint in relation to the packages for top personalities in other fields like Movies , sports etc d) Compare the book value of the equity with the market value of equity of the two of the selected companies e) Event study to test Market Efficiency Hypothesis Select major event announcement for your company. Analyze the price changes surrounding the period of announcement. Discuss the stock price reaction for the event. f) Measuring the Market A stock index is designed to show the performance of the stock market. The leading index are Dow Jones Industrial Average (http://www.dowjones.com) S&P 500 Index (http://www2...
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...10 Largest Stock Exchanges from Asia, Europe, Africa and America: 1. Asia: i. Bombay Stock Exchange: The Bombay Stock Exchange is the oldest exchange in Asia. It traces its history to the 1850s, when four Gujarati and one Parsi stockbroker would gather under banyan trees in front of Mumbai's Town Hall. The location of these meetings changed many times, as the number of brokers constantly increased. The group eventually moved to Dalal Street in 1874 and in 1875 became an official organization known as 'The Native Share & Stock Brokers Association'. In 1956, the BSE became the first stock exchange to be recognized by the Indian Government under the Securities Contracts Regulation Act. The Bombay Stock Exchange developed the BSE SENSEX in 1986, giving the BSE a means to measure overall performance of the exchange. In 2000 the BSE used this index to open its derivatives market, trading SENSEX futures contracts. The development of SENSEX options along with equity derivatives followed in 2001 and 2002, expanding the BSE's trading platform. The equity market capitalization of the companies listed on the BSE was US$1 trillion as of December 2011, making it the 6th largest stock exchange in Asia and the 14th largest in the world.[1] The BSE has the largest number of listed companies in the world. As of December 2011, there are over 5,112 listed Indian companies and over 8,196 scrips on the stock exchange,[3] the Bombay Stock Exchange has a significant trading volume...
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...increasing share of FDI in GDP and diversification to high-technology exports in countries that have open trade regimes. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has played a key role in the modernization of the Bangladesh economy for the last 15 years. Bangladesh received FDI of $1.13 billion last year compared to $910 million in 2010. This increase of about 25% is higher than the average 23% worldwide growth of FDI. According to the 2012 World Investment Report (WIR) of the UNCTAD, the garment sector attracted the highest amount of FDI followed by the banking, energy and telecommunication sectors, respectively. Recent Achievement of FDI: Over the last few years, foreign investor sentiment towards Bangladesh has improved. The Doing Business Indices recently ranked Bangladesh 9th among the countries that have improved significantly in business start-ups....
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...RECENT TRENDS IN CAPITAL MARKET OF BANGLADESH: CRITICAL EVALUATION OF REGULATION by Syed Golam Shahjarul Alam A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Professional Master in Banking and Finance Examination Committee: Dr. Sundar Venkatesh (Chairperson) Dr. Winai Wongsurawat Dr. Yuosre Badir Nationality: Previous Degree: Bangladeshi Master of Business Administration University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh Bank (Central Bank of Bangladesh) Scholarship Donor: Asian Institute of Technology School of Management Thailand May2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My greatest Gratitude is given to Dr. Sundar Venkatesh, my project advisor, for his deep insight in capital market, which helped me to accomplish the project paper. His dedication towards teaching, motivating and supervising influenced me greatly, leading to do my project work carefully and seriously. I wish to express my deepest gratitude and appreciation to Bangladesh Bank, My office, for granting me a scholarship, to pursue my Masters in banking and finance. I express my gratitude and deepest appreciation to my friend Ms. Senjuti binte rafiq, My Colleagues in Bangladesh Bank and DSE Library staffs who helped me by providing valuable suggestions and necessary data for my analysis. I am very much thankful to Dr. Winai Wongsurawat and Dr. Juthathip Jongwanich for their valuable suggestions regarding my project. I express my gratitude and deepest appreciation to Ms...
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...FOR EDUCaTION a bloomberg Professional Service Offering GETTING STaRTED GUIDE FOR STUDENTS // FEbRUaRy 2012 CONTENTS>>>>>>>>>> 02 bLOOMbERG TERMINaL® 02 The bloomberg Keyboard 03 accessing the application 04 Logging In 05 bloomberg Panels 06 FUNCTIONS & SECURITIES 06 Running Functions 07 Working with Securities 09 basic Search (autocomplete) 10 Full Search 11 browsing Menus 09 NavIGaTION 12 PERFORMING aNaLySIS 12 Navigating Functions 13 Stock/Company Screening 14 analyzing a Company 15 analyzing an Index, bond or Currency 16 ExPORTING DaTa 16 The bloomberg Excel add-In 19 Drag & Drop 19 Printing and Other Export Options 20 GETTING HELP aND LEaRNING MORE CONTENTS>>>>>>>>>> 21 aPPENDIx 21 Equity 21 Fundamental analysis 22 analytics 23 M&a analysis 23 Fixed Income 25 Swaps 26 Money Markets 27 Structured Finance analytics 28 Price Discovery 29 analytics 29 Descriptive 29 Relative value 29 Ticketing 29 Hedging 30 additional FI Functions 31 FI Futures and Options 32 Repo analysis Data 32 Calculators 33 High yield/Syndicated Loans/Distressed Research 34 Municipal bonds INTRODUCTION For more than 20 years, bloomberg has been committed to helping universities and colleges incorporate the bLOOMbERG PROFESSIONaL® service into their academic programs to better prepare students for the global job market. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Universities and colleges around the globe use Bloomberg to bring the real world of finance into...
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...================================================= BLOOMBERG FOR EDUCATION A Bloomberg Professional Service Offering GETTING STARTED GUIDE FOR STUDENTS // 2014 CONTENTS 02 INTRODUCTION 03 BLOOMBERG TERMINAL 03 The Bloomberg Keyboard 03 Helpful Keys 04 Accessing The Application 05 Logging In 06 Bloomberg Panels 07 FUNCTIONS & SECURITIES 07 Running Functions 08 Working With Securities 10 NAVIGATION 10 Basic search (Autocomplete) 11 Full Search 12 Browsing Menus 13 PERFORMING ANALYSIS 13 Navigating Functions 14 Stock/Company Screening 15 Analyzing a Company 16 Analyzing an Index, Bond or Currency 17 EXPORTING DATA 17 The Bloomberg Excel Add-In 20 Drag & Drop 20 Printing & Other Export Options 20 GETTING HELP & LEARNING MORE 22 APPENDIX 22 Equity 22 Fundamental Analysis 23 Analytics 24 M&A Analysis 24 Fixed Income 26 Swaps 27 Money Markets 28 Structured Finance Analytics 29 Price Discovery 29 Analytics 29 Descriptive 30 Relative Value 30 Ticketing 30 Hedging 30 Additional Fixed-Income Functions 32 FI Futures & Options 33 Repo Analysis Data 33 CALCULATORS 33 High Yield/Syndicated Loans/ Distressed Research 34 Municipal Bonds INTRODUCTION For more than 20 years, Bloomberg has been committed to helping universities and colleges incorporate the Bloomberg Professional® service into their academic programs to better prepare students for the global job market. Universities and colleges around the globe use Bloomberg to bring the real world of...
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...RECENT TRENDS IN CAPITAL MARKET OF BANGLADESH: CRITICAL EVALUATION OF REGULATION by Syed Golam Shahjarul Alam A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Professional Master in Banking and Finance Examination Committee: Dr. Sundar Venkatesh (Chairperson) Dr. Winai Wongsurawat Dr. Yuosre Badir Nationality: Previous Degree: Bangladeshi Master of Business Administration University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh Bank (Central Bank of Bangladesh) Scholarship Donor: Asian Institute of Technology School of Management Thailand May2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My greatest Gratitude is given to Dr. Sundar Venkatesh, my project advisor, for his deep insight in capital market, which helped me to accomplish the project paper. His dedication towards teaching, motivating and supervising influenced me greatly, leading to do my project work carefully and seriously. I wish to express my deepest gratitude and appreciation to Bangladesh Bank, My office, for granting me a scholarship, to pursue my Masters in banking and finance. I express my gratitude and deepest appreciation to my friend Ms. Senjuti binte rafiq, My Colleagues in Bangladesh Bank and DSE Library staffs who helped me by providing valuable suggestions and necessary data for my analysis. I am very much thankful to Dr. Winai Wongsurawat and Dr. Juthathip Jongwanich for their valuable suggestions regarding my project. I express my gratitude and deepest appreciation to Ms...
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...Project Report on Derivatives | Introduction to Futures & Options 1.0INTRODUCTION In recent times the Derivative markets have gained importance in terms of their vital role in the economy. The purpose of this report to get an orientation to the derivatives and develop a basic understanding of what it is and how does it work. Derivatives are financial instruments, which derive their value from an underlying asset. The underlying asset can be bullion, index, share, bonds, currency, interest, etc. Derivatives are likely to grow even at a faster rate in near future. The emergence of the market for derivatives products, most notably futures and options, can be tracked back to the willingness of risk-averse economic agents to guard themselves against uncertainties arising out of fluctuations in asset prices. By their very nature, the financial markets are marked by a very high degree of volatility. Through the use of derivative products, it is possible to partially or fully transfer price risks by locking-in asset prices. As instruments of risk management, these generally do not influence the fluctuations in the underlying asset prices. However, by locking-in asset prices, derivative product minimizes the impact of fluctuations in asset prices on the profitability and cash flow situation of risk-averse investors. However, the use of F&O has grown into other segments like leveraged trading and arbitrage. 2.0 OBJECTIVES OF THE REPORT: ...
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...1. Strong From 6 4.2. Semi-strong form 6 4.3. Weak form 7 4.4. Random Walk Hypothesis 8 5. Empirical evidence 9 5.1. Joint Hypothesis Problem 10 5.2. Capital Asset Pricing Model 11 5.3. Empirical evidence on investor overreaction 12 6. Comparisons to international stock markets 13 7. Conclusion 15 9. Bibliography 16 1. Abstract The JSE is a securities exchange based in South Africa and is considered to be the largest on the African continent. More than 400 stocks are traded on the JSE and as a result, it is important that investors are aware of the relevant information regarding stocks, which would enable investors to make sound investments. The Efficient Market Hypothesis is used to ascertain whether certain stocks and their respective prices in a particular market reflect all necessary information, which would illustrate an efficient market (Fama, 1970). Carrado and Jordan (2000) supports the aforementioned statement by affirming that markets are efficient in terms of sources of specific information, on condition that information is not exploited to earn above average returns. Furthermore, Fama (1965) explained the efficiency of markets and their stock prices by analyzing the three forms of market efficiency, namely; the weak, strong and semi-strong forms of efficiency. However, it must be mentioned that ascertaining the form of efficiency used by the JSE is no easy feat due to the fact that different researches produce different results...
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...CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION Stock exchange play a pivotal rate in the economic development of under developed developing and least developed countries like Bangladesh. It contributes to the development of economy through the development of business and industries. It can perform well to meet financial needs of business enterprises on a continuous basis. Stock market in considered to be parameter of the economy. It is mechanism to flow fund from the hands of small savers (Individual and Institution) at low costs of those entrepreneurs who do need fund to start business an to expend capacity of existing business as to add new line of business. In other words, this capital market mechanism gives a part ownership of by companies to small savers scheme to share ownership of economic development with general public. Stock refers to shares bands. Debentures, mutual funds, derivates and future and option. Market refers to the way of exchanging assets usually cash for smoothing of value. So, we can say in a word, stock market in a market for trading products of stock market. Stock exchange is an independent company formed by shareholders members. It can take various decision independently the objectives of stock exchanges are to protect the interests of the investors and promote just and equitable principles of trade. The Chittagong Stock Exchange has been established in 1995 as a model of International Standard. Considering the import role of Chittagong Stock Exchange in the development...
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...Supplément au numéro du 26 janvier 2007 Ne peut être vendu séparément Directeur de la Publication : Fadel Agoumi En partenariat avec La Bourse de Casablanca La Bourse de Casablanca souhaite la bienvenue aux entreprises qui se sont introduites en 2006 pour financer leur développement. Le Guide de la Bourse Edito L’ investissement en Bourse reste, hors période de spéculation, un placement à long terme. Sur un horizon de placement de vingt ans, les actions n'ont jamais enregistré de rendement négatif, contrairement aux obligations et aux autres instruments de placement. Cela a été largement prouvé au point de devenir aujourd'hui une évidence. Sur des périodes plus courtes, la rentabilité de vos investissements dépendra plus de votre degré de connaissance des marchés, de votre capacité à identifier et à saisir les opportunités de placement et, enfin, du respect d'un certain nombre de règles. Pour investir en Bourse, il ne faut pas seulement avoir de l'argent : il faut également avoir du temps. Et du temps, il faut en avoir aussi pour lire ce guide que nous avons conçu, en partenariat avec la Bourse de Casablanca, dans le but de pallier le vide en matière de vulgarisation des concepts boursiers. Nous l'avons segmenté en onze chapitres que nous avons voulu aussi clairs et précis les uns que les autres. L'ambition de ce guide est de vous permettre de connaître la structure et les acteurs du marché boursier, de comprendre les valeurs mobilières et d'apprendre...
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...University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Commerce - Papers Faculty of Commerce 2006 Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosure in Developing Countries: Evidence from Bangladesh M. Hossain Hail Community College, Saudi Arabia, monirulhossain@yahoo.com K. Islam University of Wollongong, mksi747@uow.edu.au J. Andrew University of Wollongong, jandrew@uow.edu.au Publication Details This conference paper was originally published as Hossain, MA, Islam, KS and Andrew, J, Corporate social and environmental disclosure in developing coutries: evidence from Bangladesh, in Proceedings of the Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Hawaii, October 2006. Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact Manager Repository Services: morgan@uow.edu.au. Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosure in Developing Countries: Evidence from Bangladesh Abstract This is an exploratory study designed to investigate the extent and nature of social and environmental reporting in corporate annual reports. Specifically, we examine the relationship between social and environmental disclosure and several corporate attributes in a developing country, Bangladesh. In order to do this, we have developed and utilized a disclosure index to measure the extent of disclosure made by companies in corporate annual reports. This study reports significant differences in levels...
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...managers, simply beating the S&P 500 in any single year would have been an accomplishment, yet Miller had achieved consistently better results during both the bull markets of the late 1990s and the bear markets of the early 2000s. Over the previous 15 years, investors in Value Trust, one of a family of funds managed by the Baltimore, Maryland–based Legg Mason, Inc., could look back on the fund’s remarkable returns: an average annual total return of 14.6%, which surpassed the S&P 500 by 3.67% per year. An investment of $10,000 in Value Trust at its inception, in April 1982, would have grown to more than $330,000 by March 2005. Unlike the fund’s benchmark, which was a capitalization-weighted index composed of 500 widely held common stocks, Value Trust only had 36 holdings, 10 of which accounted for nearly 50% of the fund’s assets. Exhibit 1 presents a summary of Legg Mason Value Trust, Inc., as it stood in August 2005. While Miller rarely had the best overall performance among fund managers in any given year, and while some managers had beaten his results over short-term periods, no one had ever matched his consistent index-beating record....
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...Human Resource Accounting Human Resource Accounting Literatur Review To measure human value as a part of the goodwill, HRA was introduced in the accounting literature in the 1960s (Flamholtz, 1985). In 1968 Brummet, Flamholtz & Pyle used the term “human resource accounting” for the first time. In 1973 the American Accounting Association’s Committee on Human Resource Accounting defined HRA as “the process of identifying and measuring data about human resources and communicating this information to interested parties. It provides information about human resource costs and values, serves to facilitate to decision making, and motivates decision makers to adopt a human resource perspective (Sackmann et al., 1989,). Research to examine the way in which human resource variables affect the efficiency of firms could be performed in a number of ways including analyzing the association between different aspects of human resources and firm performance (Bassi & McMurrer, 1998; Boudreau & Ramstad, 1997; Grojer, 1998). Looking at different proposals (Conner, 1991), the resource theory considers human resources in a more explicit way. This theory considers that the competitive position of a firm depends on its specific and not duplicated assets. The most specific (and not duplicated) asset that an enterprise has is its personnel. It takes advantage of their interdependent knowledge. That would explain why some firms are more productive than others. With the same technology, a solid human...
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