PERSONAL INVESTMENT PLANNING FOR THE MALAYSIAN INVESTOR CONTENTS Part 1 - Understanding Investments What is an investment? Types of investments Part II - Financial Planning Assess your own financial situation Diversify your investments Your risk profile Rational thinking Monitor your investments Do ’s and don ’t of investing wisely Be mindful of some trading rules Part 1 - Understanding Investments What is an investment? Many of us think of interest-bearing deposits or fixed deposits when we
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INFLATION INFLUENCE ABOUT INVESTMENT DECISION Associate Professor PhD Dorel Berceanu‚ dorelberceanu@yahoo.com Associate Professor PhD Anca Băndoi‚ anca_bandoi@yahoo.com University of Craiova ABSTRACT: In this article‚ we are dealing with an issue very important as regards the investment decision‚ namely the influence that it has on inflation. Thus‚ in a brief introduction spotlighted how we have perceived inflation today‚ what it means and how it manifests itself. An ample space in the paper is
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2)(25%) + (0.1)(60%) = 11.40%. (2 = (-50% - 11.40%)2(0.1) + (-5% - 11.40%)2(0.2) + (16% - 11.40%)2(0.4) + (25% - 11.40%)2(0.2) + (60% - 11.40%)2(0.1) (2 = 712.44; ( = 26.69%. CV = [pic] = 2.34. 6-2 Investment Beta $35‚000 0.8 40‚000 1.4 Total $75‚000 bp = ($35‚000/$75‚000)(0.8) + ($40‚000/$75‚000)(1.4) = 1.12. 6-3 kRF = 5%; RPM = 6%; kM = ? kM = 5% + (6%)1 = 11%.
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ZDNet Make the Case Series: IT Business Case Template: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Solutions General Introduction Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one benefit of the convergence between data and telecommunications. Companies today are seeing the value of transporting voice over IP networks to reduce telephone and facsimile costs and to set the stage for advanced multimedia applications and services such as unified messaging‚ in which voice‚ fax‚ and e-mail are all combined
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CHAPTER 18 Investment Decisions: Ratios Test Questions 1.Income multipliers: a. are useful as a preliminary analysis tool to weed out obviously unacceptable investment opportunities. 2.The overall capitalization rate calculated on a potential acquisition: a. is the reciprocal of the net income multiplier. 3.The operating expense ratio: c. expresses operating expenses as a percent of effective gross income. 4.The equity dividend rate: b. expresses before-tax cash flow as a percent of the
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INVESTMENT AVENUES 1.1 INTRODUCTION TO INVESTMENT The money one earns is partly spent and the rest is saved for meeting future expenses‚ instead of keeping savings idle one may like to use savings in order to get returns on it in the future‚ this is called as investment. In an economic sense‚ an investment is the purchase of goods that are not consumed today but are used in the future to create wealth. In finance‚ an investment is a monetary asset purchased with the idea that the asset will provide
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GUIDEBOOK ON BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT IN VIETNAM BERLIN‚ 2011 FOREWORD Over the past two decades‚ Viet Nam’s economy has bee n developing rapidly owing to its “Doi moi” (Renovation) policy and activeness to integrate itself into the global economy. W ith its enormous efforts and determination‚ and effective cooperation with international partners and friends worldwide‚ Viet Nam is taking firm steps towards industrialization and modernization. With a stable political environment and great
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REPORT) Saving-Investment Equilibrium Y = C + I Y – C = I S = I Saving is an outflow which gradually reduces the additional income that it generates. Therefore the circular flow model tells us that outflows like savings‚ taxes‚ and import expenditures must go back in the system in the form of investment‚ government expenditures‚ and export earnings. The saving-investment equilibrium further implies that increasing‚ decreasing or maintaining the level of investment expenditure will
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ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS Research paper Zagreb‚ svibanj 2013. Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. ART INVESTMENT 3 3. OLD - TIMERS 6 4. BASEBALL MEMORABILIA 8 5. WINE 11 6. CONCLUSION 13 INTRODUCTION | Alternative investments have become popular because many people and investors have been looking into safer ways to invest their money. But there is a question: What is actually an alternative investment
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FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN CUBA: THE LIMITS OF COMMERCIAL ENGAGEMENT María C. Werlau Since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc‚ the Cuban government embarked on economic liberalization based on the adoption of capitalist mechanisms which include an opening to foreign investment. This has led to increasing claims abroad that engagement— particularly commercial engagement within the context of constructive engagement1 —is the policy instrument that will lead to economic and political reform and the
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