Read the case "Tactus Tackles Fund-Raising" at the end of Chapter 8 and answer the questions that follow: 1. Craig Ciesla and Micah Yairi eventually turned to friends and family for funding. Should they have done that first? What are the risks with raising money from such individuals? Many us have heard don’t borrow money from family or go into business with friends. In the case of Tactus fund-raising‚ they faced many financial obstacles in raising their capital. Craig and Micah did the right
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Analyzing the Distribution of WIC Funds WIC is an organization that stands for Women’s‚ Infant’s‚ and Children’s Supplemental Nutrition Program and was established in 1972 (Martinez-Schiferl‚ 2012). This program is federally funded and does as much as it can to help as many women and children as possible. Its goal is to help prevent health problems among infants and children under five years of age within low-income families (Overview: NWICA‚ 2011). The WIC program is active in many provinces
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Investments Analysis and Management Group 5: Dimensional Fund Advisors‚ 2002 DFA Overview Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment firm founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield‚ both graduates of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. The firm has three Nobel Laureates sitting on its board: namely Myron Scholes‚ Robert C. Merton‚ and the late Merton Miller. Other directors include leading economists such as Eugene Fama and Kenneth French; they jointly
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Emergency Fund Ratio For households with dual-earners‚ like yours‚ we normally recommend you hold in cash or cash equivalents 3-6 months of fixed expenses. These fixed expenses are what would be left if you both lost your job. Certain expenses like: income taxes and contributions to retirement plans would not be included when calculating the size of your emergency fund. You currently hold 15x your expenses in cash and cash equivalents. Since both of you work‚ in addition to earning strip mall income
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What does the International Monetary Fund do? The IMF is the world’s central organization for international monetary cooperation. It is an organization in which almost all countries in the world work together to promote the common good. The IMF’s primary purpose is to ensure the stability of the international monetary system—the system of exchange rates and international payments that enables countries (and their citizens) to buy goods and services from each other. This is essential for sustainable
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Collaborative Fund-Raising Activity The Phoenix Homeless Agency (PHA) needs to increase funding to continue funding job counseling to qualifying recipients. While they regularly access traditional contracts and grants‚ the economy has increased the need for services immensely and required them to look for other sources. The Executive Director and Board of Directors have begun their search by using the internet‚ other agencies‚ and community networking. They have decided that there are three options
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what kind of stocks do you trade or invest in? 7. How much of your total investment is invested in equity market? 8. From how long you are investing in equity market? 9. What attracts you towards equity market? 10. What type of mutual fund scheme you invest‚ Is it SIP‚ MIP‚ Equity‚ Debt? 11. Are all the fields covered in fixed income product? 12. If you are a Investor what induces you to invest in a particular stock? 13. Do you invest in Primary Market (IPO)? 14. How do create
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For my USA Funds assignment I completed: how do I achieve my goals? How do I live on a budget while I am in school? and how do I manage my personal life while I am in school? I choose these topics because I already had a plan created in order to assist me in these topics. In SLS 1122 we have been working on and learning about our career‚ academic and personal goals. I knew how to live on a budget because I am currently putting that into practice. Everything that I spend I am always keeping track
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of mutual fund industry in India is with the introduction of the concept of mutual fund by UTI in the year 1963. Though the growth was slow‚ but it accelerated from the year 1987 when non-UTI players entered the industry. In the past decade‚ Indian mutual fund industry had seen a dramatic imporvements‚ both qualitywise as well as quantitywise. Before‚ the monopoly of the market had seen an ending phase‚ the Assets Under Management (AUM) was Rs. 67bn. The private sector entry to the fund family rose
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McDonald ’s and the Environmental Defense Fund: a case study of a green alliance Sharon Livesey Originally published in…The Journal of Business Communication • January 1999 In 1987‚ the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development‚ which had convened to address the global ecological crisis‚ produced Our Common Future (the Brundtland Report). This watershed event established the conceptual underpinnings for environmental politics and debate in the 1990s by reframing the problem
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