Business Incubation System in Israel Table of Contents * Introduction * Present Condition & Functions * Funding Structure * Venture Capital * Innovation Ecosystem * KORIL-RDF * Cases Introduction In the early 1990s‚ the Israel government created a technological business incubator program to leverage the strength of approximately 750‚000 scientists‚ engineers‚ and physicians who had just arrived from former USSR. Israel’s Office of the Chief
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The role of a fund manager is to stick to a clear mandate and the role of an advisor is to advice clients on suitability of various products‚ at different times‚ for different circumstances‚ for different investors. In this scenario‚ can a mutual fund product also offer an element of advice within the product itself? How can you embed advice into a mutual fund? What are embedded advice products? How do they work and how do they benefit investors? The traditional view in the MF industry - in India
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Stock-Trak Evaluation When our investments class first started I knew very little about stocks‚ mutual funds and options but with every class that I took I started to understand exactly what each meant. This became very important in my research of companies to choose for stocks‚ mutual funds and options. I took a few things into consideration: the economy‚ the time of season‚ and the products the company is best known for; also from the companies chosen I look at their three month six month and
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1. Analysis and investment recommendation According to Frino et al (2013)‚ both Mean-Variance and CAPM are based on the assumptions that returns are normally distributed. However‚ both of the two approaches are unstable and untenable to some extent then they also followed with many critiques and queries from the publicity. Here are some rational and underlying assumptions as follows. 2.1 Rationale and underlying assumptions of MV and CAPM approaches The total risk with a security has
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1 Case Study: 3. The dilemma I face now is to inform all the investors of the inaccurate information the accountant provided and that in fact‚ the team is losing money. The biggest problem is that no one should be receiving a check for their investments. The team is surprisingly operating with a loss yet investors are getting paid. The season ticket revenue does not provide reliable information to an outsider because revenue would not be placed until 2009. The $100‚000 advertising revenue on the
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Business Research Vol. 5‚ No. 3; March 2012 The Effect of Investment Promotion on Foreign Direct Investment Inflow into Ghana Justice G. Djokoto Department of Agribusiness‚ Central Business School‚ Central University College P. O. Box DS 2310‚ Dansoman‚ Accra‚ Ghana Tel: 233-28-503-7399 Received: January 10‚ 2012 doi:10.5539/ibr.v5n3p46 Abstract The paper investigated the effect of investment promotion (IP) on foreign direct investment flow (FDI) into Ghana. Cointegration among the variables was
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Investing Association is to provide undergraduate students with a foundation of knowledge in the area of investing. Additionally‚ Canes Investing Association will help prepare students for careers in finance with exposure to professionals who deal with investments on a day-to-day basis. Section 2. Objectives The objectives of Canes Investing Association shall be to listen to representatives from different financial institutions speak of their experiences in investing. Canes Investing Association shall
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Tutorial 7: Management of Economic Exposure QUESTIONS 1. How would you define economic exposure to exchange risk? Answer: Economic exposure can be defined as the possibility that the firm’s cash flows and thus its market value may be affected by the unexpected exchange rate changes. 2. Explain the following statement: “Exposure is the regression coefficient.” Answer: Exposure to currency risk can be appropriately measured by the sensitivity of the firm’s future cash flows and the
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Fama‚ E.‚ French‚ K.‚ 1997. Industry costs of equity. Journal of Financial Economics 43‚ 153–193. Golbe‚ D.L.‚ White‚ L.J.‚ 1988. A time series analysis of mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. economy. In: Auerbach‚ A Gort‚ M.‚ 1969. An economic disturbance theory of mergers. Quarterly Journal of Economics 83‚ 623–642. Greene‚ W.‚ 1993. Econometric Analysis. Prentice-Hall‚ Englewood Cliffs‚ New Jersey. Harford‚ J.‚ 1999. Corporate cash reserves and acquisitions. Journal of Finance 54‚ 1969–1997. Healy
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hosting a number of foreign investments concerns. Give a critical assessment of these firms as far as their contribution towards the socio-economic development of the Zambian society goes. Foreign investment is important in any given country’s quest for accelerated and protracted socio-economic development. It is generally regarded as an essential element in that; it can bolster a country’s efforts to uplift a good segment of its poor people from squalor. This essay seeks to give a critical assessment
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