The return from holding an investment over some period of time is simply any cash payments received due to ownership, plus the change in market price usually expressed as a percent of the beginning market price of the investment. Return comes to you mainly from two sources – income or dividend plus any price appreciation (capital gain or loss) Dt + ( Pt – Pt-1) R = Pt-1 Suppose, you buy for Tk. 100 a security that would pay Tk. 7 in cash to
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it’s’ income to support and enrich the communities they serve. Today that equals more than three million dollars every week to support education, arts, social services and volunteerism. (Tar10) Chevron’s three primary focus areas for community investments are improving access to basic human needs, enabling education and training opportunities, and promoting sustainable livelihoods. Each element helps contribute to socioeconomic progress. In 2009, Chevron invested $144 million in our global partnerships
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Homework 2 All questions carry equal points. 1. (a) Suppose all distinct assets in the economy have a correlation of ρ = −.02 with every other asset. Let the variance of each asset be 0.25, and the investor holds an equally weighted portfolio of these assets. How many of such assets should an investor hold so that the variance of her portfolio is zero? (b) If the correlation was 0.02 can the investor ever achieve a zero variance? (c) For the case that the correlation is 0.4, and the investor holds
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for their ethical and financial performance are important processes before deciding whether these firms could be invested in. The report aims at analyzing the energy company of Santos and to assist the client who is interesting in making ethical investment. This report focuses on environmental concern with pollution and the financial performance. The results indicate Santos did not perform ethically. The way of fracking could cause water pollution as well as fracking would endanger the health of human
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If you were to look at a history of global economics over the years, you would find that many countries achieve (and sometimes fall from) economic superpower status. Examples of such countries include the U.S, the U.K, and Japan. The most current countries to join that list are India and China. However, whether they stay that way has yet to be seen. The Elephant and the Dragon written by Robyn Meredith takes a look at both countries’ rise to economic superpower status, and how it affects us now as
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BCG Matrix Model BCG Matrix Model The BCG matrix or also called BCG model relates to marketing. The BCG model is a well-known portfolio management tool used in product life cycle theory. BCG matrix is often used to prioritize which products within company product mix get more funding and attention. The BCG matrix model is a portfolio planning model developed by Bruce Henderson of the Boston Consulting Group in the early 1970's. The BCG model is based on classification of products (and implicitly
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Subject: Continuing Education for Support Staff Date: January 27, 2013 The purpose of this memo is to discuss the importance of continuing education among your support staff. I will provide my opinion of continuing education and possible ways to provide continuing education to our support staff. As you are aware, computing and information technologies change rapidly, because your firm is highly dependent on these technologies it is
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understanding of how the stock market operates. As a beginning investor, I tried to keep my initial stocks as an even investment for the most part. I invested my money into stocks that I felt would be successful and I knew that I would spend my own money on to help the stock increase. The attached Excel spreadsheets will describe in detail the beginning investment, the first and second adjustment, and my final outcome including my total gains/losses. To complete the project, my stocks were
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David is the founder of the now world-famous website and Youtube channel MBAbullshit.com with 1 MILLION+ FREE tutorial video views worldwide on YouTube (as of May 2012) Beat The Bullshit This book aims to explain some the most "seemingly complicated" topics in these fields in a conceptual way, rather than explaining the common "how to calculate" way, which is much, much better explained and more easily understood in my step-by-step easy and quick tutorial videos (basic videos are FREE!) on my
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Capital Investment and Capital Structure of Madison Products Ltd. Date: 09/01/2013 I was asked to draft you a short report detailing the proposed capital investment and review the current capital structure of the firm. I will start out by looking at the proposed new product line of luggage and travel goods, I will then go on to study the Capital Structure of the firm and give any suggestions to you that I might have to help improve it. (1) Proposed Capital Investment The capital investment I was
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