“A STUDY OF INVESTMENT PREFERENCE IN MUTUAL FUNDS” (With special reference to Birla sun life mutual fund) PROJECT REPORT SYNOPSIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE ON MASTER OF COMMERCE IN FINANCE GROUP H.N.B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY
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Stanley Merrill Lynch & Co Inc Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. Charles Schwab Corp. E Trade Financial Corp Customers: Customers in this industry are individual and institutional investors‚ mutual fund managers‚ hedge fund managers‚ corporations‚ and governments. Key Issues: We have identified following key issues that are confronting securities brokerage industry: 1. Transparency and easy access to personal information 2. Privacy in the information age 3
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Risk Arbitrage: Abbott Labs and Alza Harvard Business Review Case Study 1. BACKGROUND Risk Arbitrage is essentially just arbitrage with some element of risk. Three main types of risk arbitrage are merger and acquisition arbitrage (also known as just merger arbitrage)‚ liquidation arbitrage‚ and pairs trading. We will focus on merger arbitrage‚ as it pertains to this case study. Merger arbitrage is an investment strategy that chooses to capitalize upon arbitrage that presents when a merger
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“UK Open-Ended Mutual Funds Industry pre and post the Global Financial Crisis: Performance Persistence and Return Attribution” By Dimitris Xydias Abstract This dissertation project tests the persistence in performance of a survivorship bias controlled sample of 574 UK Open-End Mutual Funds for the period between 31/12/1999 and 31/12/2011 and decomposes the funds’ returns into factors. The former is done by employing both parametric and non-parametric approaches to identify persistence and the
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efficiency. 3 Prof. Doron Avramov‚ The Jerusalem School of Business Administration‚ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem‚ Investment Management Syllabus: Contents Analyzing performance of mutual funds; Comparing properties of mutual funds and hedge funds; Examining evidence on profitable trading strategies in global and domestic markets‚ especially‚ the size‚ value‚ price momentum‚ earnings momentum‚ and volatility effects in stock prices; Forming optimal portfolios with constraints; Investing
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Lessons Learned From Long Term Capital Management LTCM was selling liquidity as their fund structure was more similar to an investment bank than a typical hedge fund. When investors or issuers need to change their positions or risk exposure‚ they would go to an investment bank or dealer to buy or sell securities. In turn‚ the dealer would utilize the capital markets to offload the exposure. LTCM was often on the other side of these transactions‚ in some sense‚ wholesaling risk to the investment
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internal and external forces so you can formulate a clearer path to an outcome‚ whether it’s the right one or not.” For investors‚ using a SWOT analysis can give insight into a company’s worth beyond what the data shows‚ says James Early‚ a former hedge fund manager who is now an advisor to the investor newsletter service run by the Motley Fool‚ a financial services company. “The great lie of investing is that models are precise. Numbers give the illusion of security‚” Early notes. “Having that SWOT
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INVESTIGATING MUTUAL FUNDS IN GHANA: IT’S RISK‚ RETURN AND PERFORMANCE ABSTRACT Over the years‚ investors have been attracted to mutual funds. This study seeks to do an-depth analysis of the Ghanaian mutual fund industry between the years 2006 and 2010. An exhaustive literature review on mutual funds and portfolio diversification will be conducted. An assessment of the performance of mutual funds will be done using the Sharpe and Sortino ratios as well as the Jensen Alpha. Comparisons will be made
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The Glass Menagerie and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? The Glass Menagerie was written by Tennessee Williams and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was written by Peter Hedges. The first main difference between these two works is that The Glass Menagerie was a memory play that premiered in 1944 and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was a novel in 1991 that was later adapted into a film in 1993. The main factor in The Glass Menagerie is that the characters and the story mimic the author’s own life‚ which he
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“Imagination‚ the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature‚ should be limited. In order to enjoy life‚ we should not enjoy it too much.” Vladimir Nabokov (Russian novelist) once stated. In the novel What’s Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges Gilbert Grape the son of Bonnie Grape and the late Albert Grape in Endora‚ Iowa and he works as a grocery clerk‚ he tends to be impulsive‚ immature‚ and enclosed to himself during the book. He goes through tough times in the house when he’s the man
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