Investment Banking in 2008 Group Report 1. Failure Analysis: Identify the major factors that contributed to Bear Stearns’s failure? Who stood to benefit from its implosion? How did Bear Stearns’s collapse differ from the ‘Long Term Capital Management’ failure a decade earlier? What could Bear Stearns have done differently to avoid this fate? In the early 2000’s? And during the summer of 2007? And during the week of March 10‚ 2008? (1) Identify
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TOPIC: Assessment of suitability of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership COUNTRY: Sweden COMMITTEE: World Trade Organization (WTO) The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a proposed trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) with the aim of promoting trans-border trade and multilateral well planned global economic growth. However it has an increasing percentage of opposition in case of both the sides of the Atlantic Politicians‚ civic organizations
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his study investigates the relationship between saving‚ investment and economic growth for India over the period 1950-51 to 2007-08. The literature on the role of saving in promoting economic growth generally points to saving led growth. However‚ few studies show evidence for growth driven saving and some suggest no relationship. In theory‚ saving may stimulate economic growth‚ economic growth may also induce saving. This paper adds to the literature by analysing the existence and nature of these
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CASE: Managing Offshore Investments: Who’s Currency?1 The Offshore Investment Fund (OIF) was incorporated in Fairfield‚ Connecticut‚ for the sole purpose of allowing U.S. shareholders to invest in Maltese securities. The Fund is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The custodian of the Fund is the Shady Rest Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut (“Shady Rest”)‚ which keeps the accounts of the Fund. The question very quickly arose as to the currency in which the books of the fund were to be
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INTRODUCTION TO INVESTMENT What is Investment? An investment is the choice by the individual‚ after thorough analysis‚ to place or lend money in a vehicle (e.g. property‚ stock securities‚ and bonds) that has sufficiently low risk and provides the possibility of generating returns over a period of time. Placing or lending money in a vehicle that risks the loss of the principal sum or that has not been thoroughly analyzed is‚ by definition speculation‚ not investment. In the case of investment‚ rather
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the revenues that come after their products are sold. d. Do not forget working capital requirements. Net working capital aka working capital is the difference between a company short term assets and liabilities. Most projects entail an additional investment in working capital‚ which should be recognized in your cash flow forecasts. e. Include opportunity costs. Is the cash it could generate for the company if the project were rejected and the resource were sold or put to some other productive use
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haven investment. Gold investment is booming in recent year and the reasons behind this incident can be explained as the investor become more aware of the benefit of the gold and its special features. Gold demand for investment purpose accounted one-thirds of gold demand all over the world which is substantial influential (World Gold Council‚ 2009). Investment demand for gold has shown as significant increase in the last seven years as investor seeking the fashion to balance their investment portfolio
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Below is a model answer based on the previous categories. The green highlighted text shows how the law has been applied to the facts. The yellow highlighted text shows relevant case citations. The case study deals tih a simple contract‚ which is not required to be in writing. The elements of a simple contract are: Intention to create legal relations Offer and acceptance (an agreement) Consideration Capacity of the parties Certainty of terms Legality of object
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Penta ltd (Investment appraisal) Introduction What is investment appraisal? It is the activity responsible for carrying out a cost benefit analysis to justify capital expenditure for a new investment. Capital investment decisions are those decisions that make current outlays in return for a stream of benefits in future years. . The characteristic of many investments is risk and uncertainty. many organisations prefer to avoid high risk investments but may consider these investments if they
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IN-TEXT CITATION AND REFERENCING CHALLENGES: A CASE OF IAA STUDENTS’ RESEARCH REPORTS BY ADONIJAH ABAYO Abstract In-text citations and referencing are key competencies in all genres of academic writings. Despite their importance‚ students in higher learning institutions‚ particularly‚ the Institute of Accountancy Arusha (IAA) third-year students pay little attention to them when writing their research reports. This article aims at identifying the in-text citation and referencing
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