business units (SBU’s) in terms of its market growth rate and relative market share * Market growth rate: provides a measure of market attractiveness * Relative market share: serves as a measure of company strength in the market * Four types of SBU’s: * Stars high growth, high share businesses or products * Cash cows low growth, high share businesses or products * Question marks low share business units in high growth markets * Dogs low growth, low share businesses
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Mutual Fund Industries Introduction A mutual fund is financial intermediary that allows investors to pool their money in accordance with predetermined investment objective. The fund manager is responsible for investing the gathered money into bonds, stocks, short-term money market instruments and/or other securities. Thus Mutual fund issues units to the investors and they become a shareholder or unit holder of the fund. The main advantage to mutual funds is that Investment in securities are
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Mutual Fund Industries Introduction A mutual fund is financial intermediary that allows investors to pool their money in accordance with predetermined investment objective. The fund manager is responsible for investing the gathered money into bonds, stocks, short-term money market instruments and/or other securities. Thus Mutual fund issues units to the investors and they become a shareholder or unit holder of the fund. The main advantage to mutual funds is that Investment in securities
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Investigate global market 1. Defining global market In the aspect of marketing, global market is the set of many foreign markets which include every available buyer or potential buyer of a product or a service. This concept allows international company forecast the capacity of the market in an effective way. A country’s overseas market includes foreign customer market, industrial market and government market. 2. Investigate global market Investigate global market is the process of
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of people particularly from the middle and lower income groups. These savings are channelized into investment for economic growth. Insurance serves a number of valuable economic functions that are largely distinct from other types of financial intermediaries. According to the official estimates, Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.6% (+/- 0.25%) in the fiscal year 2012–2013. However, leading financial organizations and economic think-tanks expect Indian economy to grow slower than official projections
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Project Finance By Godfred Kwame Abledu Abstract Project financing is largely an exercise in the equitable allocation of a project’s risks between the various stakeholders of the project. Indeed, the genesis of the financing technique can be traced back to this principle. Roman and Greek merchants used project financing techniques in order to share the risks inherent to maritime trading. A loan would be advanced to a shipping merchant on the agreement that such loan would be repaid only through
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Economics New York University 269 Mercer Street New York, NY 10003 douglas.gale@nyu.edu January 4, 2006 Abstract Historically, much of the banking regulation that was put in place was designed to reduce systemic risk. In many countries capital regulation in the form of the Basel agreements is currently one of the most important measures to reduce systemic risk. In recent years there has been considerable growth in the transfer of credit risk across and between sectors of the financial
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Chapter twenty-six examines how the financial system in America works and analyzes its macroeconomic role. I plan to structure my summary similar to the way chapter twenty-six does. First by talking about different financial institutions and how they work in the U.S. economy. Then by breaking down saving and investment in the national income accounts. Lastly I will explain how government policies affect society’s allocation of resources by manipulating the interest rate. The first thing chapter
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accountant/auditor's reporting The role of accountants is critical to society. Accountants serve as financial reporters and intermediaries in the capital markets and owe their primary obligation to the public interest. The information they provide is crucial in aiding managers, investors and others in making critical economic decisions. Accordingly, ethical improprieties by accountants can be detrimental to society, resulting in distrust by the public and disruption of efficient capital market operations Unethical
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strategies. To achieve the goals and objectives the main component of the banks are the customers. Banks are the diversified financial services company that provide a range of services to customer including retail banking, venture capital, private equity, working capital finance etc. The aim of the banks is to provide state-of-the-art, low cost and efficient banking services, with a focus on
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