Texas A&M University Mays Business School Spring 2013 Professor Yong Chen Case 1: Dimensional Fund Advisors (Harvard Business School Case # 9-203-026) Due Wednesday‚ March 20 Objectives Subjects covered in the DFA case include efficient markets‚ models of capital market equilibrium‚ financial instruments‚ investment management‚ tax management‚ and stock trading. The case promotes an understanding of several important topics in finance. (1) The case introduces many of the major
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their two mantras‚ making them a unique type of investment firm at that time. Their strategy was mainly based on 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
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Dimensional Fund Advisors 2002 Introduction: Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment firm based in Santa Monica‚ California. It was founded in 1981 by David Booth and Rex Sinquefield. It is a different investment firm which think differently and push the frontiers of innovation. The firm had close working relationships with academics such as Eugene Fama and Kenneth French who introduced the Fama & French three factors model. Fama has worked in DFA since very early days‚ now he is
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| Minzu Bank | Sobat Bank | Bid | $.0224 | $.0228 | Ask | $.0227 | $.0229 | Determine whether the foreign exchange quotations are appropriate. If they are not appropriate‚ determine the profit you could generate by withdrawing $100‚000 from Blades’ checking account and engaging in arbitrage before the rates are adjusted. Answer: Here Locational Arbitrage is possible. Locational Arbitrage: a) Buy Thai baht from Minzu Bank ($100‚000/$0.0227) = 4‚405‚286.34 b) Sell Thai baht
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interest SINKING FUND -A fund into which a company sets aside money over time‚ in order to retire its preferred stock‚ bonds or debentures. A fund into which a company sets aside money over time‚ in order to retire its preferred stock‚ bonds or debentures. In the case of bonds‚ incremental paymentsinto the sinking fund can soften the financial impact at maturity. Investors prefer bonds and debentures backed by sinking funds because there is less risk of a default. -is a fund established by a
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Dimensional Fund Advisors 2012 Background‚ Principle and Strategy of DFA Dimensional is a different kind of investment firm headquartered in Austin‚ Texas with regional offices in Amsterdam‚ Berlin‚ London‚ Santa Monica‚ Sydney‚ and Vancouver now (DFA 2012) which was founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield‚ both graduates of the University Of Chicago Graduate School Of Business. The underlying principle of DFA is that the stock market was “efficient” which is‚ on one could beat
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FUND RAISING STRATEGIES: Know What You’re Selling Produced by David Connell‚ David J. Connell & Associates 1998 FUND RAISING: Know What You’re Selling! FORWARD Fund Raising Strategies: Know What You’re Selling presents fund raising in a new perspective. Many excellent sources on fund raising already exist‚ many of which have been referenced in this document‚ however‚ they only mention that the fund raising environment is more competitive. Too often‚ they fall short of positioning fund raising
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Despite being created in different political‚ social and cultural paradigms‚ a comparative study of Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s sci-fi cult film‚ ‘Blade Runner the Directors Cut’ reveals similar concerns and issues which are still relevant to a modern audience. Both Blade Runner and Frankenstein were written centuries apart‚ both being passed on Milton’s four century old epic poem‚ Milton’s Paradise Lost. This continuum of consideration highlights the continued significance
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formation of bubbles in the tip of the burette. The second portion of the expirement was the analysis of razor blade. The dissolved razor blade solution was titrated with KMnO4. The volume of KMnO4 was recorded. There are slightly differences in the volume of KMnO4 used in each trial. The volume of KMnO4 used and the mass of KMnO4 was used in determining the percentage of iron in the razor blade(see appendix). In trial 1‚ the percentage of iron computed was 81.38%; in trial 2‚ the percentage was 85.95%;
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CASE 3: FLIGHT OF FUNDS A. Problems Mr. Idris bin Junid appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Travel Investment Holdings Bhd. (TIH) on 1 April 2010. TIH suffered major losses due to the global economic downturn in 2009. As the CEO‚ Idris had to identify the cause of the major losses‚ he had to focus on the bottom line and cash flow of the organization. Idris has noticed that there had been an investment made by a subsidiary Malaysia Travels Sdn. Bhd. (MTSB) in 2006 which had shown no
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