global equity and foreign exchange markets. Unlike central banks, the SWFs are more likely to invest in emerging nations rather than the developed countries. Stephen Jen, the managing director and chief currency economist at Morgan Stanley, says that the trend for SWFs to move away from sovereign debt to assets that generate higher returns, including financial, resources, tech, and infrastructure plays, is a natural outcome of the globalization financial markets that seeks to adjust existing global
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Bank Islam, established in 1983, is Malaysia’s maiden Shariah-based institution. Since its inception, it has emerged as the symbol of Islamic banking in Malaysia and its vision to be “A Global Leader in Islamic Banking” illustrates the Bank’s status as the flag bearer of the country’s financial services industry (“the industry”). Bank Islam has been growing from strength to strength as evidenced by its financial performance and paid-up capital, which in turn, was instrumental in
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High-Frequency Trading Remi Charpin MBA student BADM 580 June 28, 2010 Prepared for Professor Charles Alvis Financial Markets Seminar Table of Contents List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Economic Research Paper April 18, 2010 After two years after the financial crisis of 2008, the Congress is ready to step up and start implanting a new plan. The Senate Banking Chairman, Christopher Dodd, released the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 on March 15th 2010. This bill includes the revisions to the bill Dobb presented to the Senate in November of 2009. Some of the bill was improvements to The “Schumer Bill”, The Shareholder Bill of Rights, which was proposed by
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Islamic money market Based my reading, I founded that most of the stakeholder are seeking for the pure markets, which eliminate interest and other prohibited products. For this reason, Bank Negara Malaysia has made some effort of making the Islamic Money Market become one of the vital and important markets as compared to conventional money market. In addition, I mentioned that the conventional money market or Islamic money market both them have the same characteristics, purposes, and aims. However
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22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Financial Markets: A Beginners’ Module * 1500 Mutual Funds : A Beginners’ Module 1500 Currency Derivatives: A Beginner’s Module 1500 Equity Derivatives: A Beginner’s Module 1500 Interest Rate Derivatives: A Beginner’s 1500 Module Commercial Banking in India: A Beginner’s 1500 Module Securities Market (Basic) Module 1500 Capital Market (Dealers) Module * 1500 Derivatives Market (Dealers) Module * 1500 FIMMDA-NSE Debt Market (Basic) Module 1500 Investment Analysis
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artemenkov@rambler.ru Modern Portfolio theory (MPT) and Financial Economics: a theory of lesser turf?♣ “In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run the easiest.” Henry Miller “[These are colossal] disproportions that have accumulated over the last few years. This primarily concerns disproportions between the scale of financial operations and the fundamental value of assets, as well as
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A Decade of Reforms in Government Securities Market in India and the Road Ahead* RAKESH MOHAN I. INTRODUCTION It gives me great pleasure to deliver this keynote address at the Annual Conference of FIMMDA jointly organised by the Fixed Income Money Market Dealers Association of India (FIMMDA) and Primary Dealers Association of India (PDAI). Many of you would recall that the FIMMDA-PDAI conference held in Bangkok in 2002 was addressed by Governor, Dr. Y. V. Reddy when he was Deputy Governor
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Corporate Bond Market in the Transition Economy of Vietnam, 1990-2010 VUONG, Quan-Hoang and TRAN, Tri Dung Corporate bond appeared early in 1992-1994 in Vietnamese capital markets. However, it is still not popular to both business sector and academic circle. This paper explores different dimensions of Vietnamese corporate bond market using a unique, and perhaps, most complete dataset. State not only intervenes in the bond markets with its powerful budget and policies but also competes directly
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Money Market Report Introduction SIBOR Forecast Strategies Role as Price Maker For Consumers For Bank to Bank (Corporate) Products and Services Operational Costs Source of Funds Risks/Obstacles Introduction Money market is like a place for large institutions and government to manage their short-term cash needs. However, individual investors have access to the market through a variety of different securities. Money market securities are
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