Mary Political Economy January 10‚ 2010 Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Pose a Security Threat to Western States? Sovereign wealth funds have been on the international economic scene since the middle of the 20th century. The Kuwait Investment Authority‚ for example‚ was created in 1953. (Lyons‚ p.25) However‚ until lately they had gone either unnoticed or ignored by the majority of political commentators. Several factors have brought them to the center of attention in economic and political
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higher momentum (group 9 and 10) are negatively skewed‚ indicating higher risks in these portfolios. For the period 2000-2012‚ portfolios 4-10 are negatively skewed‚ indicating that the whole market became riskier in recent years. For high minus low momentum stocks‚ their skewness is much lower than that of all 10 portfolios for both the whole period and recent years. This reason lies in that higher momentum brings higher risk and makes the return’s distribution more negatively skewed. We also analyzed
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1)Hi! My topic today is European union funds and I would like to tell you something more about this topic. 2)There is a structure of my presentation and lets start by vocabulary. 3)There are the most important words from this presentation The Structural Fund = Strukturální fond The Cohesion Fund = Kohézní fond European Regional Development Fund = Evropský fond pro regionální rozvoj European Social Fund = Evropský sociální fond Regional competitiveness = Regionální konkurenceschopnost
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investing in index funds‚ in small stocks (illiquid stocks) and high book value of equity to market value of equity ratio. The last two components were the so-‐called anomalies discovered by Fama and French in their famous article published in 1993‚ "Common risk factors in the
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The Coconut Levy Fund Abstract Summary Table of Contents Introduction Cocos Nucifera‚ better known as the coconut‚ has been with the Filipinos since the earliest forebears first inhabited the archipelago. When the first western adventures stumbled into the Philippine shores‚ their scribes recorded encounters with brown-skinned natives who derived their basic needs in life from a single source they called the “Tree of Life”. This remained true for the Filipinos until the imposition
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Definition of ’Commodities Exchange’ An entity‚ usually an incorporated non-profit association‚ that determines and enforces rules and procedures for the trading of commodities and related investments‚ such as commodity futures. Commodities exchange also refers to the physical center where trading takes place. A commodities exchange is an exchange where various commodities and derivatives products are traded. Most commodity markets across the world trade in agricultural products and other raw
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Go Exchange Program Application Form Local Committee Dear Candidate‚ Thank you for your interest in our organization. We encourage you to go through the instruction stated below‚ because it contains information important to you. To become a member of AIESEC and go for an international internship you have go through the selection process presented below: Application form + CV Please fill out this application and send it to xiayuan.huang@aiesec.net or huiyilooi@gmail.com by
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Hedge Fund Strategy - Equity Long-Short An equity long-short strategy is an investing strategy‚ used primarily by hedge funds‚ that involves taking long positions in stocks that are expected to increase in value and short positions in stocks that are expected to decrease in value. You may know that taking a long position in a stock simply means buying it: If the stock increases in value‚ you will make money. On the other hand‚ taking a short position in a stock means borrowing a stock you don’t
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92 Revista Informatica Economică nr.3(47)/2008 A Study Looking the Electronic Funds Transfer Codruţa POENAR Department of Economics Informatics Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Babeş-Bolyai University‚ Cluj-Napoca‚ România cpoenaru@webmail.econ.ubbcluj.ro The aim of this paper is to present the characteristics of the most important electronic funds transfer in the world‚ both interperson and interbank. We identified the following informations: location‚ type‚ owner‚ operator
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Study of working of mutual fund & identify the various factors considered by the customer while going for investment in Mutual Fund A report submitted towards the partial fulfillment of the requirements of the two years full-time MBA Under the Supervision of Mrs. Yashika Aggarwal Faculty LMTSOM Submitted by Sumit Gandhi MBA (Manufacturing) Roll No: 50702045 [2007-09] [LM THAPAR SCHOOL OF MANAGEMNT] Table of content TOPIC EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ABSTRACT LIST OF FIGURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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