Introduction: Apex Investment Partners was founded in 1987 by James A. Johnson and the First Analysis Corporation. In its eight-year life‚ the VC had raised three funds. The two first which are already closed had‚ together‚ a committed capital of around $70M. There were mainly concentrated in four areas: • • • • Telecommunication‚ information technology and software. Environmental and industrial productivity-related technologies. Consumer products and specialty retail. Health-care and related technologies
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MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY Faculty of Business and Economics AFIN828 International Investment and Risk Assignment Semester 1 / 2013 1) Using the price series provided in the spreadsheet assignment_data.xls calculate the monthly returns for Westpac (WBK)‚ Wesfarmers (WES) and Rio Tinto (RIO) for the considered time period from January 2nd‚ 2012 to January 1st‚ 2013. (25 Marks) a) Considering a possible investment in WBK and WES‚ calculate the mean (monthly) return‚ the standard deviation of return and
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DECISION TREES DECISION Decision trees may be described as the graphic display of the decision-making process. Let us take for example a situation where one must decide whether to go to a movie house or to stay at home and watch TV or a video tape. State of nature node Branches Good movie Decision node Movies Bad Movie Good program TV New program or cassette Poor program Rerun
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Financial Management Unit 15 Unit 15 Structure 15.1 Introduction 15.2 Traditional Approach 15.3 Dividend Relevance Model 15.3.1 15.3.2 Walter Model Gordon’s Dividend Capitalization Model Dividend Decision 15.4 Dividend Irrelevance Theory: Miller and Modigliani Model 15.5 Stability of Dividends 15.6 Forms of Dividends 15.7 Stock Split 15.8 Summary Terminal Questions Answers to SAQs and TQs 15.1 Introduction Dividends are that portion of a firm’s net earnings paid to the shareholders
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The MBA Decision Ben Gates graduated from college six years ago with a finance undergraduate degree. Since Graduation‚ he has been employed in the finance department at East Coast Yachts. Although he is satisfied with his current job‚ his goal I to become an investment banker. He feels that an MBA degree would allow him to achieve this goal. After examining schools‚ he has narrowed his choice to either Wilton University or Mount Perry College. Although internships are encouraged by both schools‚
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GREATER INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL IS REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN OR INCREASE THE PROSPERITY OF GHANAIANS DISCUSS. INTRODUCTION Within the broad framework of Human Resource Management‚ Human Resource Development is emerging as the crucial function that can add value and also provide organizations with competitive advantage. Human Resource Development is therefore the framework for helping employees develop their personal and organizational skills‚ knowledge‚ and abilities. Human Resource Development
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Assignment 1: Operation Decision Assume you have been hired as a managing consultant by a company to offer some advice that will help it make a decision as to whether it should shut down completely or continue its operations. It currently uses 100 workers to produce 6‚000 units of output per month (working 20 days / month). The daily wage (per worker) is $70‚ and the price of the firm’s output is $32. The cost of other variable inputs is $2‚000 per day. It also tells us that the firm’s fixed cost
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an assessment or examination‚ in- cluding plagiarism‚ which can be defined as: • using without acknowledgment another person’s words or ideas and submitting them for assessment as one’s own work‚ for instance by copying‚ translating from one language to another or unacknowledged paraphrasing; • use of another person’s words o ideas that has been slightly changed or paraphrased to make it look different from the original; • use of any quotation (s) from the published
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Foreign Direct Investment You are the international manager of U.S. business that has just developed a revolutionary new personal computer that can perform the same functions as existing PCs but costs only half as much to manufacture. Several patents protect the unique design of this computer. Your CEO has asked you to formulate a recommendation for how to expand into Southeast Asia. Your options are (a) to export from the United States‚ (b) to license an Asian Firm to manufacture and market
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Initial Investment The desired item is jewelry The cost in 12 years will be about $6000. The average interest rate is 5%. The Present value formula is P =A (1+r)-n where P is the present value that will amount to A dollars in n years at interest rate r compounded annually. Note that the quantity raised to a power has the negative exponent on –n. According to the rules of exponents‚ this means that once the negative is put into effect‚ the base quantity will change position by dropping down
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