What WB’s chit fund scam is all about The depositors‚ mostly poor people in villages and small towns‚ had put their hard-earned money with the company’s chit funds lured by the promise of high interest rates. KOLKATA: The Saradha Group chit fund scam that left scores bereft of their savings‚ has Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress in a tizzy with the chief minister putting the onus on the Left and some even trying to cover up the mess. Sudipto Sen‚ the promoter of the chit fund funded by the
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Hedge Funds: Locusts or Bees? Literature Review Within the scope of the study program General Management (B.Sc.) EBS Oestrich-Winkel Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 3 1. INTRODUCTION ...........................................................
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1. What is a momentum investment strategy? Momentum is the phenomenon that stocks which have performed well in the past will continue to perform well in the future‚ and that stocks which have performed poorly will continue to perform poorly. Therefore a momentum investment strategy is to invest in short term portfolios that have high returns in the past‚ and to short those with low returns over the same period. 2. Analyze these portfolios. By analyzing monthly returns of all 10 portfolios from
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Dimensional Fund Advisors 2002 Introduction: Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment firm based in Santa Monica‚ California. It was founded in 1981 by David Booth and Rex Sinquefield. It is a different investment firm which think differently and push the frontiers of innovation. The firm had close working relationships with academics such as Eugene Fama and Kenneth French who introduced the Fama & French three factors model. Fama has worked in DFA since very early days‚ now he is
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SHOULD RETAIL INVESTORS INVEST IN INDEX TRACKER FUNDS RATHER THAN ACTIVELY MANAGED FUNDS? Introduction: This essay sets out to know which type of investment fund is better for a retail investor. By this‚ we will consider the meaning and operations of an index tracker fund‚ as well as that of the actively managed funds. Furthermore‚ identify the advantages of index tracker funds over actively managed funds and draw conclusions in relation to the topic above. What is an index? An index is
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providing the necessary funds (money) required by the business of entities like companies‚ firms‚ individuals and others on the terms that are most favourable to achieve their economic objectives." 3. According to Entrepreneurs‚ "Finance is concerned with cash. It is so‚ since‚ every business transaction involves cash directly or indirectly." 4. According to Academicians‚ "Finance is the procurement (to get‚ obtain) of funds and effective (properly planned) utilisation of funds. It also deals with profits
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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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performance but fund managers had style timing opportunities apart from market timing‚ such as size‚ growth and momentum timing. (Car hart‚ 1997) The six portfolios meant to minimize underlying risk factor in returns related to size& book-to-market equity. (Fama‚ et al. 1993) The variable name and description for regression of CAPM‚ 3-factor‚ 4-factor and 5- factor models are: Variable Names Description MF1_RF Returns of the mutual fund 1 MF2_RF Returns of the mutual fund 2 RM Market
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philosophy. Vanguard is committed to a philosophy of cost minimization and high-quality service to its clients-shareholders. Vanguard offers its services on an at-cost basis because the company is owned by the mutual funds it distributes‚ or indirectly by investors in those mutual funds. Minimizing costs for Vanguard translates into maximizing profits for its shareholders and clients. Providing high-quality services aims at guaranteeing client satisfaction. Vanguard’s success is largely attributable
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What is the role of “hedge funds” in the financial market? “Hedge fund” is a term used to describe a diverse group of financial institutions‚ which play an important role in our financial system. There is a wide variety of definitions given for a hedge fund. Money Central Investor defines it as “a risky investment pool…that seeks very high returns by taking very great risks”‚ and Goldman Sachs & Co. adds that they “use of investment and risk management skills to seek positive returns regardless
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