Liberty Mutual M&A of SAFECO May 9‚ 2014 Company Profile Liberty Mutual Insurance Group is an American based global insurer that was founded in 1912‚ located out of Boston‚ Massachusetts. Liberty Mutual was created shortly after Massachusetts’s legislation passed a law requiring employers to protect their employees with workers’ compensation benefits. Liberty Mutual was established as a mutual company‚ which means it works on the behalf of its policyholders. With this type
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Behavioral Finance Article Presentation “Are Investors Reluctant to Realize Their Losses” Are Investors Reluctant to Realize Their Losses? * This article was written by Terrance Odean. * This article was published by “Journal of Finance” in 1998. Aim of the Study By writing this article Terrance Odean wants to examine the tendency to hold losers too long and sell winners too soon. This tendency has been labeled Shefrin and Statman as a “disposition effect.” Terrance
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PENSION FUNDS A pension plan fund is established for the eventual payment of retirement benefits. A plan sponsor is the entity that establishes the pension plan. A plan sponsor can be: • A private business entity on behalf of its employees‚ called a corporate plan or private plan. • A federal‚ state‚ and local government on behalf of its employees‚ called a public plan. • A union on behalf of its called a Taft-Hartley plan. • An individual‚ called an individually sponsored plan. Two
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relative lack of missile defenses so as to guarantee mutual destruction. Examples: The fear of Mutually Assured Destruction helped prevent direct conflict. military‚ US) mutual deterrence between countries possessing nuclear weapons‚ based on the capacity of each to inflict major damage on the other in response to a first strike ------------------------------------------------- Example Sentences Including ’mutual assured destruction’ MAD‚ mutual assured destruction ‚ was the name given to this
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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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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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INTERDEPENDENCY BETWEEN ATM LOCATIONS AND CUSTOMER PREFERENCES IS 705 – Collaborative Research Project Final Report Group D 1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays‚ with the increasing number of banks cropping up everywhere‚ each bank has to come up with strategies that fulfil their customer’s satisfaction to compete with their rival banks. This leads the banks to come up with many innovative services and solutions to the existing problems. Some of them include lowering the interest rates‚ giving special discounts
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SERVICE SECTOR IN INDIA: GROWTH AND PROSPECTS ABSTRACT The service sector consists of the "soft" parts of the economy‚ i.e. activities where people offer their knowledge and time to improve productivity‚ performance‚ potential‚ and sustainability. This paper mainly focuses on contribution of service sector to the economy‚ its performance‚ problems‚ growth and challenges. The paper also comes out with the latest GDP detail regarding service sector. Introduction: The Services Sector constitutes
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Role of Institutional Investors in Indian Stock Market S S S Kumar* Abstract An important feature of the development of stock market in India in the last 15 years has been the growing participation of Institutional Investors‚ both foreign institutional investors and the Indian mutual funds combined together‚ the total assets under their management amounts to almost 18% of the entire market capitalization. This paper examines the role of these investors in Indian stock markets and finds that
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Nearly all rivet guns are pneumatically powered. The rivet gun is used on the manufactured head side of the rivet and a bucking bar is used on the buck-tail side of the rivet. Those rivet guns used to drive rivets in structural steel are quite large while those used in aircraft assembly are easily held in one hand. A rivet gun differs from an air hammer in the precision of the driving force. Rubber mallets are used when a softer blow is called for than that delivered by a metal hammer. They are typically
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