efficiency of such indexes. This study investigates whether stock market indexes based on an array of cap-indifferent measures of company size are more mean–variance efficient than those based on market cap. These “Fundamental” indexes were found to deliver consistent‚ significant benefits relative to standard cap-weighted indexes. The true importance of the difference may have been best noted by Benjamin Graham: In the short run‚ the market is a voting machine‚ but in the long run‚ it is a weighing
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gov/timeseries/LNU04000000?years_option=all_years&periods_option=specific_periods&periods=Annual+Data http://financeandinvestments.blogspot.com/2011/05/historical-annual-returns-for-s-500.html Jain‚ Rajiv‚ and Daniel Kranson. "The Myth of GDP and Stock Market Returns."2009. Web. 4 Mar. 2012. <http://www.virtus.com/vsitemanager/Upload/Docs/6141_GDPwhitepaper.pdf>. Rao‚ Rama. "Forecasting Future Returns." Financial Physics. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 5 Mar 2012. <http://www.financialphysics.net/future
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XAVIER UNIVERSITY --- ATENEO DE CAGAYAN INVESTING IN THE PHILIPPINE STOCK MARKET: THE ECONOMIC‚ SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RISKS Maagad‚ Lorenzo Rafael P. Torres‚ Mae Junica A. BSAC-2 ACB Ms. Geraldine Eligan ENGLISH 27 TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Page i Table of Contents ii Proposals * Narrows 3 * Guide Questions 4 * Topic Outline 5 * Sentence Outline 7 * Paragraph Outline 9 Introduction 13 Body
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ISSN 0975 – 5942 Impact of Union Budgets on Indian Stock Market –A Case Study of NSE Gurcharan Singha and Salony Kansalb a Reader‚ School of Management Studies‚ Punjabi University‚ Patiala b Junior Research Fellow‚ School of Management Studies‚ Punjabi University‚ Patiala Corresponding author: guru64@gmail.com Abstract This paper examines the impact of Union Budgets from 1996 to 2009 on the Stock Market as represented by S&P CNX Nifty in terms of returns and volatility. The impact
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Business Organization Joint – Stock Company An Entrepreneur or business owner will sell stock to investors‚ and in return‚ promise the investors a percentage of the company’s profits‚ based on how much stock they buy. We see this in larger businesses in the US‚ most notably during the market crash we experienced a couple years ago. Independent investors as well as other companies bought and shared stock with many of the big banking corporations‚ since the bands values began to drop‚ shareholders
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investment‚ market capitalization and adjusted on stock market using time series data from 1991 to 2011. A result shows that there is a significant relationship between foreign direct investment and stock market‚ as well as there is also a significant relationship between adjusted saving and stock market but there is insignificant relationship between market capitalization and stock market. Foreign direct investment‚ Market capitalization and Adjusted saving explains 90% of variation in the stock market
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entire market capitalization of the Seagate. Seagate faces two problems because of VERITAS stake. First‚ the company’s core disk drive operations were not receiving full value in the market. Second‚ the company would incur a significant tax liability if the company attempt to monetize its VERITAS stake be selling the shares. Yes‚ it is necessary to divest the VERITAS shares in a separate transaction. It helps the company to save itself from tax liabilities and distributing the VERITAS stock tax free
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times‚ many developing countries have recognised that a market based economic system needs political institutions supportive of the free market concept. Thus Nigeria‚ like any other nation‚ has been involved in political engineering partly to achieve this goal. Like many other African economies‚ the Nigerian economy has been mixed. However‚ the level of government participation has been reducing in line with globalisation trend and market base resource rationalisation concept. In this spirit‚
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Microeconomic Study of the Indian Stock Market A brief overview of the Indian stock market 3 Purpose of the stock exchange 3 PRIMARY MARKET 3 SECONDARY MARKET 4 Role of ‘Supply and demand’ on the stock price movement 4 EVOLUTION OF MARKET STRUCTURE AND THE SELF REGULATORY APPROACH 5 Traditional structure of the stock exchanges: 5 Changes in the market structure and demutualization: 5 Stock Markets as Perfectly Competitive markets: 6 Transaction Costs in
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Investment Risk in Stock Market Securities Introduction: Stories of people making fortunes from the securities market have enticed many others into risky investments. Congress created the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to protect investors. Many corporation managers became greedy and made self-serving decisions that created the principle-agent problems. The solutions for these problems lead to more unethical behavior from management. The creative use of financial statements even tricked
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