THE IMPACT OF PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA South Africa is committed to maintaining an open environment for investment. This is core to long-term‚ sustainable‚ economic growth. As a low-savings developing economy‚ with high domestic investment requirements‚ South Africa requires to attract foreign direct investment in order to support domestic investment financing requirements (National Treasury‚ 2011). South Africa has re-entered this changing environment in full awareness
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Chapter 5 Measures of Central Tendency: Introduction A measure of central tendency is a single value that attempts to describe a set of data by identifying the central position within that set of data. As such‚ measures of central tendency are sometimes called measures of central location. They are also classed as summary statistics. The mean (often called the average) is most likely the measure of central tendency that you are most familiar with‚ but there are others‚ such as the median and the
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Week 5 - Discussion 1 This Discussion will give you the opportunity to calculate or identify the three measures of central tendency. You will be asked to select an appropriate real life situation in which one measure would be more appropriate than the other two measures of center. 1. Select a topic of interest to you and record the topic in your posting‚ for example: “What is the average number of hours people watch TV every week?” Make sure the question you ask will be answered with a number‚
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Kelly Panizza Assignment # 1 Algorithm-Spring 2011 1. Do some research on al-Khorezmi (also al-Khwarizmi)‚ the man from whose name the word “algorithm” is derived. In particular‚ you should learn what the origins of the words “algorithm” and “algebra” have in common. R: / the word “Algorithm” or “Algorism” in some other writing versions‚ comes from the name Al-Khwarizmi (c. 780-850)‚ a Persian mathematician‚ astronomer‚ geographer
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Write your name here Surname Other names Centre Number Candidate Number Edexcel GCSE Mathematics B Unit 1: Statistics and Probability (Calculator) Higher Tier Wednesday 9 November 2011 – Afternoon Time: 1 hour 15 minutes Paper Reference 5MB1H/01 You must have: Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres‚ Total Marks protractor‚ pair of compasses‚ pen‚ HB pencil‚ eraser‚ calculator. Tracing paper may be used. Instructions Use black ink or ball-point pen.
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1. Arrange the following in descending order: a. 29 ‚23 ‚821 b. 15 ‚37 ‚710 2. A rectangular sheet of paper is 1212 cm long and 1023 cm wide. Find its perimeter. 3. Salil wants to put a picture in a frame. The picture is 735 cm wide. To fit in the frame the picture cannot be more than 7310 cm wide. How much the picture should be trimmed? 4. Find the perimeters of (i) ABE (ii) the rectangle BCDE in the figure below. Whose perimeter is greater? 5. In
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Chapter 3 Relationships Between Quantitative Variables Copyright ©2011 Brooks/Cole‚ Cengage Learning 1 Principle Idea: The description and confirmation of relationships between variables are very important in research. Copyright ©2011 Brooks/Cole‚ Cengage Learning 2 Three Tools we will use … • Scatterplot‚ a two-dimensional graph of data values • Correlation‚ a statistic that measures the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two quantitative variables
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Batch Production Batch Production is a way of creating items in bulk. In batch production‚ general-purpose equipment and methods are commonly used to produce small quantities of items that will be made and sold for a limited time only. Usually a similar design and process will be used to make a new product‚ cars are a good example of this. Often after car has been made another version will be created that has got new features. In batch production specialized tools or items for construction purposes
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Optimization methods in portfolio management and option hedging ∗ Huyˆn PHAM e Laboratoire de Probabilit´s et e Mod`les Al´atoires e e CNRS‚ UMR 7599 Universit´ Paris 7 e e-mail: pham@math.jussieu.fr and Institut Universitaire de France April 24‚ 2007 Abstract These lecture notes give an introduction to modern‚ continuous-time portfolio management and option hedging. We present the stochastic control method to portfolio optimization‚ which covers Merton’s pioneering work. The
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variables and how to find the answer to certain problems. Math is a very important subject to learn. I believe that math is a subject in which you learn about properties and relationships of things using numbers and sometimes symbols. You learn about things from shapes and measurements to patterns and relationships. Math is usually a difficult subject with lots of rules that you take during most or your entire educational career. Math can be boring sometimes‚ but it can be fun as well sometimes
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