Developing Robust Asset Allocations1 Working Paper First Version: February 17‚ 2006 Current Version: April 18‚ 2006 Thomas M. Idzorek‚ CFA Director of Research Ibbotson Associates 225 North Michigan Avenue Suite 700 Chicago‚ Illinois 60601-7676 312-616-1620 (Main) 312-616-0404 (Fax) tidzorek@ibbotson.com Abstract Over the last 50 years‚ Markowitz’s mean-variance optimization framework has become the asset allocation model of choice. Unfortunately the model often leads to highly concentrated asset
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2013 | Cruise Line | Cruise Ship | Date | Number of Passengers Affected | Number of Crew Affected | Celebrity Cruises | Celebrity Infinity | 03/17 - 04/01 | 101 of 2086 (4.84%) | 17 of 927 (2.05%) | Princess Cruises | Ruby Princess | 03/03 - 03/10 | 266 of 3129 (8.50%) | 10 of 1‚189 (0.84%) | Royal Caribbean Cruise Line | Vision of the Seas | 02/25 - 03/08 | 118 of 1991 (5.93%) | 3 of 765 (0.39%) | 2012 | Cruise Line | Cruise Ship | Date | Number of Passengers Affected | Number
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|Cruise line: |Target market’s |Benefits offered (differentiation): | |Carnival Cruise lines |All ages |a wide variety of on-board choices; a fun‚ relaxed | |Resort / Contemporary Cruise | |atmosphere; outstanding value; and beautiful and exciting | |Lines |
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A cruise is providing customers with an experience of a lifetime. The company seeks to fulfill the following needs of the customers to the extent of delighting them: • Customer Service • Delivering on its Promise MARKET TRENDS: The tourism industry has been growing at a high rate for the last few years. Due to busy lives‚ people are willing to spend more on vacations than anything else. Though most vacation packages are costly‚ but they provide a feeling of satisfaction and serve as a source
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Index Executive Summary pg. 3 Carnival Corporation Mission Statement pg. 4 Evaluation of Mission Statement pg. 4 Company Objectives‚ Strategies and Core Competencies pg. 6 Business Scope pg. 9 Financial Ratios - 2002 pg. 12 Company Strengths pg. 14 Company Weaknesses pg. 15 Value‚ Rareness‚ Imitability & Organization (VRIO) pg. 15 Value Chain pg. 16 Opportunities pg. 17 Threats pg. 17 Strategic Objectives & Relative Evaluations pg. 18 Strategy Implementation pg. 21 Balanced Scorecard
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What is Cruise ship? Cruise is a large ship that floating at holiday resort for vacations. On board you can enjoy the luxury and comfort of a star hotel and you can choose from different activities. Most cruise ships are equipped with several restaurants‚ bars‚ casinos‚ swimming pools‚ Jacuzzi‚ spa‚ gym‚ shops‚ theater‚ cinema and more. The interior is tastefully decorated with an eye for detail and design. Cruise can take you to everywhere in the world. What makes cruise vacation so special? Why
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Carnivals of the Animals – Assesment 2 1. The reason why the work was written: Camille Saint-Saens wrote the ‘Carnival of the Animals’ while he was on holiday as a light hearted musical joke. It was originally planned for the students of Sain-Saens at the music school where he taught piano‚ Ecole Niedermeyer but he had little time to compose. The work was subtitled “Grand Zoological Fantasy” and it became Saint-Saens intent to perform it as a surprise at the annual Mardi Gras concert of cellist
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Carnivalistic sense of the world. In “Rabelais and His World”‚ Bakhtin argues that the Carnival was people’s second life where they lived for a certain time and experienced the second world which they themselves have created. Perhaps the strongest argument Bakhtin gives for this assumption relies on the claim that on carnival common rules and behavior do not apply: “People were‚ so to speak‚ reborn for new‚ purely human relations. These truly human relations were not only a fruit of imagination
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Rivalry: (High) Carnival is the leading company within the cruise line industry‚ has a large fleet capacity and operates 11 of most recognizable cruise brand names. The cruise line industry is effectively an oligopoly market; in which the market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers. Carnival is constantly engaged in marketing and pricing battles with their competitors‚ making internal rival central to the industry. They are only few large competitors in the North American cruise industry
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Department of Hotel‚ Service and Tourism Studies (HoSTS) Sustainable Tourism Management (TOU4006) Tutorial 6 – Group Project Literature Searching Seminar Objective Research of articles and reports related to the topic of study Draw some key points with reference to the articles and reports collected Write a list of references In-class Exercise Task 1: Work with your project group to research at least 3 articles / reports / book chapters related to the topic of study and selected destination.
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