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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those that argue against it. They argue that the government shouldn’t continue to fund the arts. However‚ it’s important that the government continues to fund the creative side of the human spectrum for a variety of reasons. To start things off‚ art is important because it gives struggling artists with great talent a chance to make something of themselves. Furthermore‚ many artists simply don’t have the ability to fund themselves and continue to work. During the Renaissance period‚ artists with exceptional
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The International Monetary Fund: Its Present Role in Historical Perspective* Prepared for the U.S. Congressional International Financial Institution Advisory Commission * For valuable and timely research assistance we thank Debajyoti Chakrabarty. For helpful comments on an earlier draft we thank Jim Boughton. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. What does the IMF do? 3. Origins and Original Aims 4. The IMF’s Role in the Post Bretton
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INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND During the Great Depression of the 1930s‚ countries attempted to shore up their failing economies by sharply raising barriers to foreign trade‚ devaluing their currencies to compete against each other for export markets‚ and curtailing their citizens’ freedom to hold foreign exchange. These attempts proved to be self-defeating. World trade declined sharply (see chart below)‚ and employment and living standards plummeted in many countries. This breakdown in international
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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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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by following the macroeconomic policies of its member countries‚ in particular those with an impact on exchange rates and the balance of payments. It is an organization formed to stabilize international exchange rates and facilitate development.[2] It also offers financial and technical assistance to its members‚ making it an international lender of last resort. Its headquarters are located
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MUTUAL FUND WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INVERSOTRS IN SOLAPUR CITY PRITAM P. KOTHARI1 & SHIVGANGA C. MINDARGI2 1 Head Department of Management Studies‚ Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University‚ Pune Abhijit Kadam Institute of Management and Social Sciences Solapur‚ India 2 Assistant Professor‚ Department of Management Studies‚ Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University‚ Pune Abhijit Kadam Institute of Management and Social Sciences Solapur‚ India ABSTRACT The role of Indian mutual fund industry
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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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The crisis was particularly felt in Jamaica due to the existence of structural impediments such as declining productivity‚ high debt‚ and crime. In July 2009‚ the Government of Jamaica announced its intention to borrow from the International Monetary Fund‚ (IMF). The Jamaican economy would have had to adjust their level of spending in order for the IMF to approve the borrowing agreement. The availability of this funding intends to increase opportunities in production and foreign exchange earnings
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ONE ACRE FUND: CASE STUDY The scene is Bungoma‚ Kenya; Moises Postigo is a buyer interested in purchasing fertilizer on a large scale for his not-for-profit organization the One Acre Fund (OAF). OAF’s mission is to provide fertilizer to farmers “who have nothing” on a credit like system and when the farmers produce their crops a percentage of their supplus would be returned to OAF. Eventually the farmers would no longer need a “free hand out” and will be able to support themselves and their families
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