INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND During the Great Depression of the 1930s‚ countries attempted to shore up their failing economies by sharply raising barriers to foreign trade‚ devaluing their currencies to compete against each other for export markets‚ and curtailing their citizens’ freedom to hold foreign exchange. These attempts proved to be self-defeating. World trade declined sharply (see chart below)‚ and employment and living standards plummeted in many countries. This breakdown in international
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by following the macroeconomic policies of its member countries‚ in particular those with an impact on exchange rates and the balance of payments. It is an organization formed to stabilize international exchange rates and facilitate development.[2] It also offers financial and technical assistance to its members‚ making it an international lender of last resort. Its headquarters are located
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MUTUAL FUND WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INVERSOTRS IN SOLAPUR CITY PRITAM P. KOTHARI1 & SHIVGANGA C. MINDARGI2 1 Head Department of Management Studies‚ Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University‚ Pune Abhijit Kadam Institute of Management and Social Sciences Solapur‚ India 2 Assistant Professor‚ Department of Management Studies‚ Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University‚ Pune Abhijit Kadam Institute of Management and Social Sciences Solapur‚ India ABSTRACT The role of Indian mutual fund industry
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were often among the first groups of workers to be covered by government-sponsored pension schemes. In a handful of countries such as Bangladesh‚ Bhutan‚ Botswana‚ Eritrea‚ Lebanon and the Maldives public-sector employees are still the only group covered by a formal pension scheme. The rationale for providing pensions for government employees was somewhat different from that behind the creation of national pension schemes. Among the objectives particular to schemes for government workers were the
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CASE 3: FLIGHT OF FUNDS A. Problems Mr. Idris bin Junid appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Travel Investment Holdings Bhd. (TIH) on 1 April 2010. TIH suffered major losses due to the global economic downturn in 2009. As the CEO‚ Idris had to identify the cause of the major losses‚ he had to focus on the bottom line and cash flow of the organization. Idris has noticed that there had been an investment made by a subsidiary Malaysia Travels Sdn. Bhd. (MTSB) in 2006 which had shown no
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Questionnaire Thank you for allowing us to communicate with you. I am a student of Global Institute of Management‚ Bhubaneswar conducting a research under SBI Mutual Fund‚ Cuttack‚ as a part of our course curriculum under MBA‚ BPUT. Please answer the questions as honest as possible. We assure you that all responses will be held strictly confidential. This survey is purely for the purpose of research in academics and not to be shared with any individual or company without their consent.
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Chapter 2: The Use of Funds in Governmental Accounting Multiple Choice 1. To what does basis of accounting refer? a. whether an entity is trying to measure the excess of inflows over outflows b. how much cash an entity received in a particular reporting period c. the timing of recognition of assets‚ liabilities‚ revenues‚ and expenditures/expenses in financial statements d. the ownership of the assets‚ liabilities‚ and equities reported in a balance sheet Answer: c
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INTRODUCTION The insurance plays a major role in the life of the humanity. Slowly people stared to realize the necessity of the insurance and these needs are unending as long as life exists. In fact insurance is not restricted for any category neither of the society nor in term of cast‚ ages or life styles. Also many people have a notion that Insurance is very good form of an investment‚ which is not right. Insurance is just creating a protection for you and your family. As Indian investors
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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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Hedge Fund Strategies Problem Set: Backtesting the Carry Trade (Macro Strategies) Prof. Andrea Frazzini In this problem set‚ you backtest the currency carry trade using the data provided in the accompanying Excel spreadsheet. You can do the problem set using Excel or any other program of your choice. Please answer in the space provided (no more than three pages for questions 1-6). 1. For each month of the sample‚ rank the countries based on their interest rate (hint: Excel has a function
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