Title: A Hedge Fund manager’s New Groove Date: November 2, 2010 Section: Money and Investing methodology According to the Wall Street’s journal article, a former manager of hedge funds has made a lot of money by switching to the high long term decision from his shorting stock. William Von Mueffling made a surprising announcement by saying that he would close his hedge funds and return about $3.5 billion to investors. Williams Muefflling’s firm contillion capital management of New York only
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Financial Markets Paper In the contemporary business environment, there is cut-throat competition between companies for achieving excellence and long-term profitability. Most of these companies are dependent on various financial institutions for fund management. The given paper is a descriptive analysis of the role of financial institutions in financial markets. In addition to this, the paper also talks about how these institutions interact with each other. Financial market is a system that provides
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number of which I will explain later. The goal of a hedge fund is to generate positive returns no matter what the market does. A hedge fund can be described as an “actively managed private investment fund that seeks positive attractive returns”. Frush, Scott. (2006). Understanding Hedge Funds. Ann Logue differentiates them from other investment tools, “They differ from so called ‘real money’ traditional investment accounts such as mutual funds, pensions, endowments and so forth, because they have
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Emerging Market Mutual Fund Performance and the State of the Economy∗ Ayelen Banegas November 2010 Abstract Following the financial liberalization of many Asian, European, and Latin American countries emerging markets have become a central player in the global economy. As a result the universe of equity funds investing in these developing economies has been in continuous expansion. In this paper we propose a set of asset class specific predictive variables for emerging markets and exploit
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group firm, Reliance Infrastructure (earlier, Reliance Energy), to pay just under Rs 125 crore as compounding fees for parking its foreign loan proceeds worth $300 million with its mutual fund in India for 315 days, and then repatriating the money abroad to a joint venture company. These actions, according to an RBI order, violated various provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). In its order, RBI said Reliance Energy
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Chapter 1 Risks common to financial institutions • Interest rate risks stems from the mismatching of the maturity (the main component of duration) of the assets and liabilities held by the FIs • Market risk: potential changes in the value of assets held by FIs • Credit risk: holding securities with the potential of default • Foreign exchange risks: FIs holding foreign currency or securities denominated in a foreign currency • Liquidity risk: cost associated with the ability
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Take Home Quiz 1 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. The commonly accepted goal of the MNC is to: a. maximize short-term earnings. b. maximize shareholder wealth. c. minimize risk. d. both maximize short-term earnings and minimize risk. e. maximize international sales. 2. For the MNC, agency costs are typically: a. non-existent. b. larger than agency costs of a small purely domestic firm. c. smaller than agency costs of a small purely
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investments in mutual funds. To execute the knowledge, I preferred to study about the mutual funds and some other popular investments options in India. Thus the first part of the project based on learning the following in details: ➢ About Religare ➢ Product and services of Religare ➢ Services and charges provided by Religare ➢ Consumer behavior ➢ Analysis of Investors profiles ➢ Some popular Investments options in India ➢ Mutual Funds ➢ Market survey
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Investing in Mutual Funds when Returns are Predictable DORON AVRAMOV AND RUSS WERMERS* First draft: May 26, 2004 This Revision: April 21, 2005 *Doron Avramov is from the University of Maryland, e.mail:davramov@rhsmith.umd.edu, Tel: 301405-0400, and Russ Wermers is from the University of Maryland, e.mail: rwermers@rhsmith.umd.edu, Tel: 301-405-0572. We thank seminar participants at Copenhagen Business School, George Washington University, Inquire-UK and Inquire-Europe Joint Spring Conference, Institute
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Cayman Islands Guide to Hedge Funds Introduction From offices in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, Jersey, London and Singapore, Walkers provides legal services to FORTUNE 100 and FTSE 100 global corporations and financial institutions, capital markets participants, investment fund managers and middle market companies. Walkers' Cayman office has an international reputation as the leading hedge fund and private equity fund practice in the Cayman Islands, advising
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