Book Reviews of: When Genius Failed; the rise and fall of Long-term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein & Monkey Business; swinging through the Wall Street jungle By John Rolfe and Peter Troob When Genius Failed: The Rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein The book tells the story of long-term capital management. It is the detailed history of how a group of elite investors who called themselves the ‘LTCM’ (Long term capital management) contributed to the rise
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Alternative Investments: Alternative Energy and Oil: Literature review Kevin Meyer‚ Kevin@meyermail.ch Submitted 12/04/2010 Executive Summary Research Purpose In order to build a financial product on a sound theoretical basis‚ I analysed the literature available on or related to the topic: “Alternative energy and Oil”. The aim is to verify the hypothesis of correlation between the variations of the price of oil and alternative energy companies‟ stock valuation. Research Design I searched
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“UK Open-Ended Mutual Funds Industry pre and post the Global Financial Crisis: Performance Persistence and Return Attribution” By Dimitris Xydias Abstract This dissertation project tests the persistence in performance of a survivorship bias controlled sample of 574 UK Open-End Mutual Funds for the period between 31/12/1999 and 31/12/2011 and decomposes the funds’ returns into factors. The former is done by employing both parametric and non-parametric approaches to identify persistence and the
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Bajaj: Riding into glory From riding the Chetak scooter to zipping past the Pulsar 220CC‚ it has been an evolution for Bajaj Auto. India’s second largest two-wheeler maker’s origin is rooted in Bachchraj Trading Corporation‚ first set up to trade in a few 2 and 3-wheelers. Founded by Jamnalal Bajaj‚ who associated closely with Mahatma Gandhi during the freedom struggle‚ the Bajajs’ have seen real growth starting from the sixties. Though Bajaj started off as dealers in imported 2 and 3-wheelers‚
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE REAL ECONOMY John H. Cochrane Working Paper 11193 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11193 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 March 2005 This review will introduce a volume by the same title in the Edward Elgar series “The International Library of Critical Writings in Financial Economics” edited by Richard Roll. I encourage comments. Please write promptly so I can include your comments in the
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A substantial number of empirical studies have investigated the overreaction hypothesis to ascertain whether overreaction has led to subsequent price reversals in the short-term period. While those studies focus on the world’s largest markets i.e. U.S. and Japan‚ other emerging and developing markets are largely unexplored. This motivates us to further investigate the issue in Vietnamese stock market. Applying Generalized Method of Moments approach on a sample size of 33 firms listed on
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policy bears to the company’s earnings‚ Rae concludes that the DDM is appropriate to value the equity of Tasty Foods. Further‚ he expects the moderate growth rate of the company to persist and decides to use the Gordon growth model. Rae uses the CAPM to compute the return on equity. He uses the annual yield of 4% on the 10-year Treasury
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Executive summary The report presents the analysis which is related to the risk and expected return of share portfolios of two stocks from the ASX in Australia. There are two approaches which refer to Mean-Variance and CAPM model to be applied in the analysis of the portfolios in this report. The two stocks which construct the portfolio are Asia Pacific Holdings Limited (AXA) and Caltex Australia Limited (CTX).Each stock occupies a certain proportion in one portfolio and their weights are varied
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CAPM Exam Prep | Project Management Institute http://www.pmi.org/Certification/Certified-Associate-in-Project-Management-CAPM/CAPM-Exam-Prep.aspx Successful CAPM candidates typically use multiple study aids — including courses‚ self-study and study groups — and will spend many hours to prepare‚ ... Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)‚ Online Study ... http://courses.telegraph.co.uk/courses/online-study/certified-associate-in-project-management-capm/149548/ Certified Associate in
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