INTRODUCTION TO INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT The Concept of Investment: □ An investment is the current commitment of funds for a period of time in order to derive future benefits. □ Investing involves making a sacrifice in the present consumption in the hope of deriving benefits in the future. □ Every investment decision has two aspects; Risks and Returns: □ Every investor looks to be compensated for; i) Time the funds are committed ii) The expected rate of inflation
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theory has merit. Firms do invest in a foreign country when demand in that country will support local production‚ and they do invest in low-cost locations(e.g‚ developing countries) when cost pressures become intense. However‚ Vernon’s theory fails to explain why it is profitable for a firm to undertake FDI at such times‚ rather than continuing to export from its home base or licensing a foreign firm to produce its product. Just because demand in a foreign country is large enough to support local
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Chapter 6 Outline Electrolux’s Global Investment Strategy Introduction Foreign Direct Investment in the World Economy The Growth of FDI The Direction of FDI The Source of FDI Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment Transportation Costs Market Imperfections (Internalization Theory) Strategic Behavior The Product Life Cycle Location-Specific Advantages Vertical Foreign Direct Investment Strategic Behavior Market Imperfections Implications for Business Chapter Summary Critical Discussion
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Factors Impact on Outward/Inward Foreign Direct Investment This aim of this essay is to evaluate the impact of institutional factors on outward and inward FDI. This will be done by determination of the major FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) factors‚ evaluation of the role of institutional factors and investigation of institutional factors impact on inward and outward FDI flows. Several sources (Aswathappa‚ 2012; Jensen‚ 2012) have identified FDI as an investment‚ made by a company based in one
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ABSTRACT This study attempted to estimate the environmental impact of Foreign Direct Investment in the mining sector in Nigeria. It is argued that only those countries that have reached a certain income level can absorb new technologies and benefit from technology diffusion‚ and thus reap the extra advantages that FDI can offer. The mining industry in Nigeria is dominated by oil. Indeed‚ Nigeria is the largest producer of this commodity in Africa and sixth largest producers in the world. This research
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FOREIGN COLLABORATIONS IN INDIA A Study of Patterns in the Pre and the Post- liberalisation Era Prof. Krishna Kumar Indian Institute of Management‚ Lucknow (India) ABSTRACT Developing countries like India have been using import of technology through foreign collaboration as a strategy to bridge the technological gaps in the country‚ to expedite economic development. There have not been many studies‚ however‚ to understand its impact and implications for technological capacity building of
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INDIA’S INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT AN OVERVIEW 2 India’s International Trade Towards Increased Global Integration through Trade Exports Imports Total India’s Merchandise Trade Turnover increased from US$95 bn in FY02 to 414 CAGR: 24.5% (2002-08) 30.3% 27.8% US$ 391 bn in FY08 (CAGR of 27.8%) India’s Exports increased from US$44 312 252 195 114 61 53 142 149 112 78 64 84 103 126 163 186 251 bn in FY02 to US$ 163 bn in FY08 (CAGR of 24.5%) India’s Imports increased
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service and capital etc. have begun to span the geological border of each country and been widely circulated in the world under the promotion of the globalization. Especially the capital internationalization whose main form is international direct investment is the most frequent. The capital internationalization includes two dimensional contents: on one hand‚ it’s an international of investor structure; on the other hand‚ it’s also an international of enterprise organization structure‚ including
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT FIN6310: INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEM SET #1 PROF. ARZU OZOGUZ SPRING 2013 1. Calculate the value of the following two bonds. Assume that coupon payments are made semi-annually and that par value is $1‚000 for both bonds. Coupon rate Time to maturity Yield-to-maturity Bond A 5% 5 yrs 7.2% Bond B 5% 25 yrs 7.2% Recalculate the bonds’ values if the yield to maturity changes to 9.4%. Which bond is more sensitive to the changes in
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Project title: Spillover effects of FDI: Do domestic manufacturing firms benefit from foreign direct investment in Vietnam. Introduction Back in the 1990s‚ foreign direct investment (FDI) became the largest source of external finance for many developing countries. In Vietnam in particular‚ the Law on Foreign Investment promulgated in the 1986 Congress to attract FDI was considered the first step of the doi moi (renovation) reform. The cumulative FDI increased from 28 projects of total US$ 140
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