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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II Homework assignment 3 Ultimate due date: Tuesday‚ April 23 at 18:55 Part 1: Mutual Funds 1. Posted to my.nes.ru are monthly returns for 9 mutual funds. Accidentally‚ I have forgotten to match the fund names to the correct return data for 7 of these 9 mutual funds. Please run regressions of each of the 9 funds on the Fama-French three-factor model and make an educated guess regarding which fund goes with which data. Explain the reasoning behind your guess. In the list “HW_FundsAndReturns
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DWS vietnam fund limited DWS vietnam fund limited Table of content I. Introduction This purpose of this report is to analyse DWS Fund Vietnam Limited’s investment and fund management. Specifically‚ the areas which will be mentioned about are regarding the company’s background‚ types of asset class‚ asset allocation‚ current portfolio‚ reference currency. Furthermore‚ aspects such as investment strategies‚ net asset value (NAV)‚ asset management will be discussed for a better understanding
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providing the necessary funds (money) required by the business of entities like companies‚ firms‚ individuals and others on the terms that are most favourable to achieve their economic objectives." 3. According to Entrepreneurs‚ "Finance is concerned with cash. It is so‚ since‚ every business transaction involves cash directly or indirectly." 4. According to Academicians‚ "Finance is the procurement (to get‚ obtain) of funds and effective (properly planned) utilisation of funds. It also deals with profits
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Case 52: The Safety Training Program Question 1. Evaluate the company’s on-the-job training program. Should it be changed? Houghton Refrigeration Company safety training program is very poorly organized. I disagree with their current process of hiring and training new employees. Houghton Refrigeration should not expect newly hired employees to learn a job within ten minutes and perform the job correctly without any prior knowledge of the product they are about to work on. Currently
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their two mantras‚ making them a unique type of investment firm at that time. Their strategy was mainly based on investing in index funds‚ in small stocks (illiquid stocks) and high book value of equity to market value of equity ratio. The last two components were the
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Methodology & Decision Analysis for Business (RMDAB) Assignment 2 Literature Review TOPIC: MUTUAL INVESTMENT FUNDS IN INDIA Student Name: Sangawar Pratik Shankar Batch: MFBD51217A FIN: G1190040U Table of Contents: 1. Background…………………………………………………………Pg.3 2. Literature Review on Mutual Investment Funds…………………....Pg.7 3. Conclusion…………………………………………………………Pg.21 4. References…………………………………………………………Pg.23 Background
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Mary Political Economy January 10‚ 2010 Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Pose a Security Threat to Western States? Sovereign wealth funds have been on the international economic scene since the middle of the 20th century. The Kuwait Investment Authority‚ for example‚ was created in 1953. (Lyons‚ p.25) However‚ until lately they had gone either unnoticed or ignored by the majority of political commentators. Several factors have brought them to the center of attention in economic and political
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Effects of Music on Bacterial Growth Kira Lewitt and Kaitlyn Carroll December 2014 Chemistry 1B Grady High School Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Materials/ Method/ Procedure 3. Data/ Observations 4. Discussion of Results 5. Conclusion 6. Practical Application 7. Future Expansion 9. Bibliography Introduction Question: What genre of music affects the growth of bacteria the most
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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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