A trillion-dollar industry is based on investing in or benchmarking to capitalization-weighted indexes‚ even though the finance literature rejects the mean–variance efficiency of such indexes. This study investigates whether stock market indexes based on an array of cap-indifferent measures of company size are more mean–variance efficient than those based on market cap. These “Fundamental” indexes were found to deliver consistent‚ significant benefits relative to standard cap-weighted indexes
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The 1929 stock market crash affected mainly people in Canada and the US when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and Stocks lost 13% of their value‚ and in 1932 and 1933 they went‚ down about 80% from their highest value. So whoever invested in stocks lost all their money‚ and it was considered the beginning of the Great Depression. By the end of the stock market crash‚ $16 billion had been lost from New York stocks. In addition‚ many banks had invested their deposits
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The Kara chi Stock Exchange Managing Director’s Message Securities markets of Pakistan have registered a period of un-paralleled growth during the past few years and have been acclaimed as the fastest growth markets in the world. As a result of reforms and liberalization process‚ our capital market has not only been making great strides but also adapting itself to new procedures‚ practices and patterns. In the prevailing environment in the country‚ investment through stock market has assumed
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Association DHAKA STOCK EXCHANGE LTD. (As amended upto 24th November 2009) (THE COMPANIES ACT‚ 1913) Company Limited by Shares Memorandum of Association DHAKA STOCK EXCHANGE LIMITED (1) The name of the Exchange is “Dhaka Stock Exchange Limited”. (2) The Registered Office of the Exchange will be situated in the Province of Bangladesh. (3) The objects for which the Exchange is established are:(a) To provide‚ regulate and maintain a suitable building‚ room or rooms for a Stock Exchange in Bangladesh
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macroeconomic variables and stock market indices 1.1 Introduction and Background The financial system is considered to be the key to economic growth. A well developed and sound financial system promotes investment by the identification and financing of profitable business opportunities‚ through the mobilization of savings‚ the efficient allocation of resources‚ by helping to diversify risks and by facilitating the exchange of goods and services. (Mishkin‚ 2001). As such‚ stock markets have assumed a
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cash to its shareholders by issuing a dividend or undertaking a stock repurchase. To issue a dividend‚ the firm’s board of directors must authorize the amount per share that will be paid on the declaration date. The firm pays the dividend to all shareholders of record on the record date. Because it takes three business days for shares to be registered‚ only shareholders who purchase the stock at least three days prior to the record date receive the dividend. As a result‚ the date two business days
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I 3.4 Analysis of RL and RC Networks 3.4.1 Series RL Network + + VR R- Im Z jXL = jωL V + L VL - Re 0 R Z = ZR + ZL = R + jXL XL = ωL > 0 2 2 Z = R + XL −1 ⎛ X L ⎞ φZ = tan ⎜ ⎟ ⎝R⎠ V = VR + VL = IR + IjXL = IZ Im V VL 0 Re I VR I 3.4.2 Series RC Network Im + + R VR + C VC - R 0 jXC = -j/ωC Z = ZR + ZC = R + jXC Re V - Z XC = -1/ωC < 0 2 Z = R2 + X C −1 ⎛ X C ⎞ φ Z = tan ⎜ ⎟ ⎝R⎠ V = VR +
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was devastating to the American economy‚ which up to that point had been thriving with ever increasing economic returns for investors and a bull market‚ which encouraged buying. The cause of the crash has been attributed to many things‚ but there is one underlying factor to all of the possible hypotheses‚ and that is the fact that more people in the population had more disposable income in the years leading up to the crash. Those people in the population who had moved
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Journal of Financial COMMON Economics 9 (1981) 139-183. STOCK REPURCHASES North-Holland Publishing Company AND MARKET SIGNALLING An Empirical Study* Theo VERMAELEN lJ/niversity of British Columbia‚ Vancouver‚ BC‚ Canada V6T 2 W5 Received January 1980‚ final version received January 1981 This paper examines the pricing behavior of securities of firms which repurchase their own shares. The results are consistent with a market in which investors
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Pages Title page……………………………………………………1 Approval page……………………………………………….2 Dedication…………………………………………………...3 Acknowledgement…………………………………………...4 Abstract………………………………………………………5 CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction………………………………………………......11 1.1 Background of the study………………………………..11 1.2 Statement of the problem……………………………….12 1.3 Objectives
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