philosophy Bill Miller is the chairman and CEO of Legg Mason Capital Management. Legg Mason Capital Management is an investment management firm with more than $60 billion under management. Bill Miller actively operates the Legg Mason Value Trust mutual fund‚ which has a lengthy history of outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark (Jim‚ 2010). Bill performed a stint in U.S military intelligence after graduated from Washington and Lee universities in 1972. With a high interest in philosophy‚ Bill is broadly
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Developers‚ Smart financial‚ SM Hegde (CFO‚ Videocon Industries) and Padmashree Mohan Lal Fedex Securities Managed by a team of ex-bankers‚ Fedex is a SEBI registered category 1 merchant banker. The company concentrates on non fund based activities like structuring‚ tie up of project financing‚ financial restructuring‚ investment banking‚ corporate and advisory services. The core management team consists of bankers with rich experience of decades and exposure to volatile situations
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Castro Fall 2002 Assume you are the manager of a risky portfolio with an expected rate of return of 18 % and a standard deviation of 28%. The T-bill rate is 8%. 1. Your client chooses to invest 70% of a portfolio in your fund and 30% in a T-bill money market fund. What is the expected value and standard deviation of the rate of return on his portfolio? 2. Suppose that your risky portfolio includes the following investments in the given proportions: Stock A: 25%
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Manual on Financial and Banking Statistics 6. NON-BANKING FINANCIAL COMPANIES The importance of NBFCs in delivering credit to the unorganised sector and to small borrowers at the local level in response to local requirements is well recognised. The rising importance of this segment calls for increased regulatory attention and focused supervisory scrutiny in the interests of financial stability and depositor protection (Box 6.1). The activities of non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)
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does well one year may not do so well the next. The book then goes on to discuss how the market is smarter than you and that the market is too random to effectively manage and time in the short term. If you were to take the average returns for mutual fund
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facts about the different corporations‚ own research using the Bloomberg tool. | Potential shortness of the time frame and shift of priorites. | > 3 months. | Yes fully. | Meetings with Hedge Fund managers and companies. | Co-workers’ experience and advice‚ necessary information about the hedge funds. | Potential shortness of the time frame and shift of priorites. | 6 months. | Yes fully. | Preparation of trading investments. | Co-workers’ experience and advice‚ clients’ account and portolio
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This document of BUS 405 Week 2 Chapter 8 Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing includes: 1. What is the area of finance called that addresses issues such as how reasoning errors affect investment decisions? 2. Which one of the following is the basis for prospect theory? 3. Which one of the following defines frame dependence? 4. Mental accounting is the process of associating a stock with its: 5. Loss aversion is defined as: 6. Representativeness heuristic
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Francisco with 300 clients. Kent uses open-ended mutual funds to implement his investment policy. For most of his clients‚ Kent has used the Baker fund‚ a small company growth fund based in Boston‚ for a portion of their portfolio. As a result he has become very friendly with Keith Dunston‚ the manager of the fund‚ whom Kent feels is mainly responsible for Baker’s performance. One day Dunston calls Kent and tells him that he will be leaving the fund in four weeks and moving to San Francisco to work
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to 64‚000 fake policyholders‚ and eventually “killed” some of his phony holders to help keep the $2 billion fraud alive. Gordon McCormick originally came up with the packaging life insurance and mutual funds in the same program. The basis begins with a customer choosing a life insurance and mutual fund policy and use the fund’s proceed to pay the premiums on the life insurance. Any excess from the amount paid on the insurance would become profit. Upon coming up with this idea‚ McCormick contacted
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1.) Investment Banker? Investment bankers are representatives that help companies and governments and their agencies to raise money by issuing and selling securities in the primary market. They assist public and private corporations in raising funds in the capital markets (both equity and debt)‚ as well as in providing strategic advisory services for mergers‚ acquisitions and other types of financial transactions." The three main avenues investment bankers help companies raise money are Lending
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