stock split? What do you mean by Bonus Issue? What do you mean by Buy Back? What do you mean by Right issue of shares? What are ADR’s? ------------------------------------------------- What is the difference in between IPO and FPO? Risk-Return analysis Risk meaning and Measurement – Types of Risk – Systematic, Unsystematic risk, Beta Coefficient, Alpha, CAPM theory etc. What is return? Expected rate of Return, computation formulae. Case studies on risk-return using standard deviation, variance
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Empirical Finance Value, Momentum, and Volatility ABSTRACT In this paper we approach two major topics on the central debate of asset pricing theory: the returns to value and momentum strategies and also, the comparison of volatility models. Our analysis is divided in two parts: in the first, we provide a monthly view on 115 stocks from the S&P 500 index for the past twenty four years and the respective return premia resulting from value and momentum strategies. In the latter part, the main goal
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investment objective and/or the portfolio manager's investing style will play an important role in determining its turnover ratio. All things being equal, investors should favor low turnover funds. High turnover equates to higher brokerage transaction fees, which reduce fund returns. Also, the more portfolio turnover in a fund, the more likely it will generate short-term capital gains, which are taxable at an investor's ordinary income rate. Fundamental Analysis – A method of valuing securities
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Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) Analysis. Further, the SWOT Analysis allows for the establishment of a plan of action essential for utilizing a corporation’s strengths and for minimizing the effect of its weaknesses in order to increase the corporation’s opportunities and lower the risk of threats (Kolbina, 2015). Consequently, slow revenue growth is one of Allstate’s weakness (Hudak, 2016). However, opportunities do exist through the offering of diversified portfolios to consumers (Hudak, 2016).
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project seemed to be a little overwhelming at first glance and we knew we needed some assistance in researching domestic and international markets. By using Yahoo Finance and Google Finance, we got the help and resources needed to create a diversified portfolio investing in bonds, futures, and stocks. Everyday as we would do our research on certain stocks and other investments, we continued to notice frightening downward trends in world exchanges from NYSE to Shanghai Stock Exchange. We knew before we began
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investment measure and increase indicates a better performance. Also from exhibit 1 we can see that the annual return of Value Trust was higher than the S&P 500’s over the years. According to the case Value Trust uses S&P 500 however we should make some analysis on what kind of shares S&P 500 deals with versus what kind of shares Value Trust deals with. S&P comprises of 500 widely held common stocks in other words large cap stocks. On the other hand 50% of Value Trust’s assets were of only 10 large cap companies
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Would you invest in DFA? Yes due to steady returns provided by the company and as investors are generally past performance chasers, one has no reason not to invest in DFA. The company was founded on a sound investment style based on its core belief in sound academic research, passive fund management. Until almost the end of the 20th century DFA had found a way to make money actively with a passive investment strategy. But looking forward, according to me it needs to evolve with the times
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PAWEL BILINSKI AND DANIELLE LYSSIMACHOU b1 The Risk Interpretation of the CAPM’s Beta: Evidence from a New Research Method This study tests the validity of using the CAPM beta as a risk control in cross-sectional accounting and finance research. We recognize that high risk stocks should experience either very good or very bad returns more frequently compared to low risk stocks, i.e. high risk stocks should cluster in the tails of the cross-sectional return distribution. Building on this intuition
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Stock Dividends 1. The dividend decision a. Corporate vs Market factors b. Important dates 2. Types of dividends a. Cash b. Stock II. Analyzing Common Stocks A. Security analysis 1. Top-down approach 2. Principles of security analysis B. Fundamental analysis 1. Balance Sheet 2. Statement of Cash Flows 3. Income Statement III. Stock Valuation A. Stock valuation models 1. Dividend valuation model 2. Dividends-and-Earnings approach
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Journal Of Financial And Strategic Decisions Volume 8 Number 2 Summer 1995 EXPLANATION OF INDUSTRY RETURNS USING THE VARIABLE BETA MODEL AND LAGGED VARIABLE BETA MODEL Thomas M. Krueger* and Mohammad H. Rahbar* Abstract Beta is found to be a function of several leading economic indicators and government policy variables within the context of the Variable Beta Model which incorporates economic characteristics in the single index model in a multiplicative manner. When contemporaneous macroeconomic
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