Investment Principles and Analysis Trinity University FNCE 3352 Spring 2010 INSTRUCTOR: Carl M. Hubbard, Ph.D., CFA Office: CGC N3l6; phone 999-7283, carl.hubbard@trinity.edu OFFICE HOURS: 9:30 – 11:30 MW; 2:30 – 4:00 TTh; Other times available by appointment. TEXTBOOK: Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Alan J. Marcus. Essentials of Investments, 7th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. CALCULATOR: Texas Instruments BAII Plus Calculator COURSE OBJECTIVES The learning objectives for students
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GEST-S411 Investments in a historical perspective Building a Bond Portfolio Vitalij Aleksandrov Gerard Haughey CONTENTS ➢ PART 1 ❖ What are bonds? ❖ What types of bonds exist ❖ Tools of analysis ➢ PART 2 ❖ Characteristics of a good bond portfolio ❖ Choosing a portfolio strategy ❖ Management of a bond portfolio ➢ PART 3 ❖ Creation of our portfolio ❖ Selection
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also expected to approach this work in a pragmatic way, demonstrating an understanding of value for effort in what they do. The module is entirely assessed via coursework. This involves three components, as detailed below: 1. Business Portfolio (group work but individually assessed, 20%) 2. Business Plan (group work, 60%) 3. Reflective Essay (individual work, 20%) Deadlines: the module adopts university coursework deadlines unless otherwise specified. Please refer to the university
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Investment analysis November 2015 Jaime J. Delgado Code Unit STR364 Student Num. Q12576077 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction…….………………………………………………………................... 2 p 2. Overview of Land Securities..…….................................................................... 2 p 3. The market trends, opportunities and risks..…...…………................................ 2 p a. Housing in London 2 p b. Commercial real estate in the UK 3 p 4
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Bus. 463 Project Report, Extended Geo Mean, Jensen-Alpha Measure April 1st, 2013 Table of Contents Client Description……………………………………………………………………………………3 Discussion of Models……………………………………………………………………………...4 Markowitz Model………………………………………………………………………..4-5 Single-Index Model………………………………………………………………………..5 Geometric Mean…………………………………………………………………………….6 Recommendations…………………………………………………………………………………6-7 Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………7 Appendix A………………………………………………………………………………………………8
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behalf of the shareholders to hire and fire the operating managers of the firm. In a legal sense, the directors are "principals" and the shareholders are "agents." A) True B) False Q#3 In capital budgeting, the financial manager tries to identify investment opportunities that will increase the value of the firm. A) True B) False Q#4 Three advantages of the corporate form of organization are the ease of transfer of ownership, limited liability for the shareholders and an unlimited life for the business
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incomplete Do not quote without authors’ permission How Do Venture Capitalists Choose Investments? by Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg* First Draft: August 2000 This Draft: August 2000 Abstract In this paper, we consider how venture capitalists (VCs) choose or screen their investments by studying the contemporaneous investment analyses produced by 10 venture capital firms for investments in 42 portfolio companies. Consistent with most academic and anecdotal accounts, we find that it is
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performance arises because many high return investment projects require long-term commitments of capital, but risk averse leners (savers) are generally unwilling to elegate control over their savings to borrowers (investors) for long perios. Financial systems mobilise savings by agglomerating an pooling funs from isparate sources an creating small enomination instruments. These instruments provie opportunities for iniviuals to hol iversifie portfolios. Without pooling iniviuals an househols woul
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INTRODUCTION We are required to collect stock prices of 35 public listed companies. There are 20 Malaysia, 5 United State, 5 United Kingdom, 5 Indonesia and KLCI index for the period of 2006 until 2013 based on weekly basis. Malaysia stock prices in this project based on Bursa Saham Malaysia. The stock prices of 20 Malaysia public listed company named by Prostaco, Raya International, Tiong Nam, Tong Herr, Toyo Ink, TSH, Turiya, United, Vitrox, UPA Corporation, Zecoon, Yokohama Industries, Woodlandoor, Wong
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climate and the amount of trading and effort put in for my more conservative portfolio. That return I was hoping to realize in the 10-week holding period but looking at it now with a change in the climate in future months it might be more realizable in an annualized holding period. Some constraints that I took into consideration while doing this project are not very severe and don’t entail a whole lot. When I took this project on I didn’t particularly see the 10 weeks as the final see all. I did not
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