Financial Advisor. Responsibilities include: Developing and maintaining long-term relationships with clients‚ active listening‚ gathering facts‚ analyzing total needs and making responsible financial recommendations (ie: life insurance‚ annuities‚ mutual funds‚ long term care‚ disability‚ college and retirement planning)‚ and expanding personal knowledge and skills through joint work with fellow associates. Westpoint Financial seems to be a good fit for me and what I want to achieve with my career. The
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Running head: BUSINESS CHALLENGES OF LUFTHANSA Business Challenges of Lufthansa Kristen Baker Dr Roy Nafarrete BUS 499‚ Strayer University March 20‚ 2010 Business Challenges of Lufthansa Lufthansa is an international airline company that can offer flights at a lower cost that its competitors. Lufthansa has many business challenges that they are faced with in business. This report will look at how they operate and how they can become even better. Wolfgang Mayrhuber and the
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Crisis management: framework incorporating quality issues Introduction The 2007-09 financial crisis was the most serious such event since the Great Depression. The crisis manifested itself in credit losses‚ write-downs‚ liquidity shocks‚ deflated property values‚ and a contraction of the real economy. The sharp contraction in U.S. gross domestic product in 2009 traced to the adverse effects of the crisis on household consumption and business Investments. In the housing sector‚ banks took advantage
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October 10‚ 2011 was the day when I joined the Stock Market Game with $100‚000. Over the term‚ I made $11‚807 which means 11.8 % of profit. I started the game with buying popular stocks such as Apple‚ AT&T and Verizon. They were not making much profit. So I looked for a new way of making more profit and I started short selling trade. Walmart‚ Amazon and Apple were good stocks for short selling before thanksgiving week started. Because most of the consumers were waiting for thanksgiving sales keeping
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Often called one of the most hated man in America‚ Martin Shkreli is an American businessman and investor who was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. What led him to receive this label was his decision to increase the price of the drug Daraprim from $13.50 a tablet to $750 overnight. Daraprim is a drug that is used to treat a parasitic disease called toxoplasmosis that afflicts patients with HIV‚ AIDS‚ and cancer. Shkreli claims that the current version of the drug is harmful and so he believes that new
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Research 7 September 2012 Global risk watch Fed to announce QE3 • We now expect the FOMC to announce a third round of quantitative easing (QE3) at its meeting on September 13. The FOMC is also likely to extend its commitment to hold the Fed Funds rate at an extraordinarily low level. Thomas Berner‚ CFA‚ economist‚ UBS FS thomas.berner@ubs.com Brian Rose‚ strategist‚ UBS FS brian.rose@ubs.com Jeremy Zirin‚ CFA‚ strategist‚ UBS FS jeremy.zirin@ubs.com Stephen Freedman‚ CFA‚ strategist‚ UBS FS
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How should governments handle large and complex financial institutions that are “too big to fail” and “too connected to fail”? The current crisis has brought that question to the forefront. Regulators need to address the too big to fail problem‚ as implicit guarantees raise the likelihood of crisis. Some have suggested progressive capital requirements‚ and many endorse macro-prudential regulatory approaches. Many‚ most prominently Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke (2009)‚ now say that adequate financial
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY JOHNSON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT NBA5980‚ BEHAVIORAL FINANCE FALL SEMESTER (2ND HALF)‚ 2012 Prof. Ming Huang 401H Sage Hall Phone: 255-9594 Email: mh375@cornell.edu Office hours: Monday 4:30-6:00pm Class Meetings: Section 01: Mon/Wed: 1:25-2:40pm Section 02: Mon/Wed: 2:55-4:10pm Location: Sage Hall B08 COURSE DESCRIPTION Traditional finance theories assume that financial market participants are rational‚ and argue that the financial market is always efficient and prices
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What’s the advantage and disadvantage about single regulator After the minibond debacle‚ it might be a favorable time to look at an new arrangement that whether single regulator could be a right way in the long term if financial institutions were providing unified multiple financial services. However‚ we have to study what’s the advantage and what’s the disadvantage. According to the UK’s financial services authority single regulator model‚ The advantage of single regulator is that Single
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Introduction Facing up all the uncertainties associated with the potential acquisition between GE and Honeywell‚ Jessica Gallinelli‚ managing director of Bancroft Capital Management‚ definitely needs to consider whether and how the future news form Europe would affect the value of her fund’s arbitrage position‚ what the probability was that booth the DOJ and the Ec would approve the merger‚ and of course eventually what is the most proper and profitable tactic to take at this certain time. The
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