MUTUAL FUNDING: IMPACT ON THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY A comparative study of two mutual funds companies in Kumasi DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS STUDIES EDMUNDSON LAWRENCE KOBINA 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Over the years in Ghana, the private sector has had it difficult raising capital and adequate funds for investment and other business activities, this led to the undertaking of a number of financial sector reforms by the government. The emergence of mutual
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Should retail investors invest in index-tracker funds rather than actively-managed funds? As we all know that there are two main institutional investments which are index fund and actively managed fund. However, it seems to be a hard problem when a retail investor who wants to make an institutional investment, perhaps most of them do not know which one deserve their investment. Index funds refers to a kind of fund buying all or part of securities according to a standard formed by certain index
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Value Line, in its current form, was incorporated in 1982 and is the successor to substantially all of the operations of Arnold Bernhard & Co., Inc. In June 2005, AB & Co. owned approximately 86.5% of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock. The Company produces investment related periodical publications through its wholly owned subsidiary, Value Line Publishing LLC ("VLP") . VLP publishes in both print and electronic formats The Value Line Investment Survey®, one of the nation's
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GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT TERMS AND DEFINITIONS This glossary forms part of the 4th Edition of the OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment and is intended to assist both the compilers and users of direct investment statistics. Acquisition An acquisition is a business transaction between unrelated parties based on terms established by the market where each enterprise acts in its own interest. The acquiring enterprise purchases the assets and liabilities of the target
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Definitions. 2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "Board" means the Securities and Exchange Board of India established under section 3; (b) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board; [(ba) "collective investment scheme" means any scheme or arrangement which satisfies the conditions specified in Section 11AA;] (c) "existing Securities and Exchange Board" means the Securities and Exchange Board of India constituted under the Resolution of the Government of India in the Department
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INVEST MENT MANA VAULT CAREER GUIDE TO INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ANDREW SCHLOSSBERG WITH ALEXANDER GORELIK AND THE STAFF OF VAULT © 2002 Vault Inc. Vault Career Guide to Investment Management Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 The Industry Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 THE SCOOP Buy-side vs. Sell-side 3 11 Jobs
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Governance In Healthcare Gap analysis between governance in Egypt and in UK Reham Mokhtar Rashwan MBChB, MScs ,CPHQ, LGBSS What is clinical governance? • “A framework through which NHS organisations are accountable for continually improving the QUALITY of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.” Corporate Governance Vs Clinical Governance: • It addresses those structures, systems and processes
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Contract of Employment THIS IS AN AGREEMENT between (1) [Company name] whose Registered Office is at [Registered address of the company], (“the Employer”) and (2) [Name of employee] of [Address of employee] (“the Employee”) IT IS AGREED that the Employer will employ the Employee and the Employee will work for the Employer on the following terms and conditions: 1. Job title The Employee’s position is that of [Job title]. The Employee may from time to time be
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REGULATORY GUIDE 90 Example Statement of Advice (SOA) for a limited financial advice scenario for a new client August 2005 REGULATORY GUIDE 90: EXAMPLE STATEMENT OF ADVICE What this guide is about This guide explains how and why we have developed an example Statement of Advice (SOA). The example SOA was developed in consultation with stakeholders, and we acknowledge their valuable contribution throughout the process. 1 2 This guide: (a) sets out the purpose of the example
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agricultural commodityprices; they have since expanded to include futures contracts for hedging the values of energy, precious metals, foreign currency, and interest rate fluctuations. A mutual fund is a type of professionally managed collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to purchase securities.[1] While there is no legal definition of the term "mutual fund", it is most commonly applied only to those collective investment vehicles that are regulated and sold to the general public
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