FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN CUBA: THE LIMITS OF COMMERCIAL ENGAGEMENT María C. Werlau Since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc‚ the Cuban government embarked on economic liberalization based on the adoption of capitalist mechanisms which include an opening to foreign investment. This has led to increasing claims abroad that engagement— particularly commercial engagement within the context of constructive engagement1 —is the policy instrument that will lead to economic and political reform and the
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Return On investment CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 6 The ROI Concept 6 Simple ROI for Cash Flow and Investment Analysis 7 Competing Investments: ROI From Cash Flow Streams 7 ROI vs. NPV‚ IRR‚ and Payback Period 10 Other ROI Metrics 11 LIST OF TABLES Table 1 6 Table 2 7 Table 3 8 Table 4 8 Table 5 8 Table 6 ………………………………....................... 9 Table 7 ………………………………...................... 10 Return on Investment: What is ROI analysis? Return on Investment (ROI) analysis
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What is Investment Banking “A specific division of banking related to the creation of capital for other companies. Investment banks underwrite new debt and equity securities for all types of corporations. Investment banks also provide guidance to issuers regarding the issue and placement of stock.” An investment bank is a financial institution that helps companies take new bond or stock issues to market‚ usually acting as the intermediary between the issuer and investors. In addition to the services
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PERSONAL INVESTMENT PLANNING FOR THE MALAYSIAN INVESTOR CONTENTS Part 1 - Understanding Investments What is an investment? Types of investments Part II - Financial Planning Assess your own financial situation Diversify your investments Your risk profile Rational thinking Monitor your investments Do ’s and don ’t of investing wisely Be mindful of some trading rules Part 1 - Understanding Investments What is an investment? Many of us think of interest-bearing deposits or fixed deposits when we
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An Article Review on “Ethical Investment Processes and Outcomes” Introduction This article was written by Grant Michelson‚ Nick Wailes‚ Sandra van der Laan‚ and Geoff Frost. It was published in Journal of Business Ethics by Springer. This article highlights the key themes in the field and identifies some of the major theoretical and practical challenges facing both scholars and practitioners. Summary Generally there are two kinds of investors in the market‚ one who invests considering the pros
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Case 17 – The Investment Detective The case of the Investment Detective laid out the cash flows for us in each of eight different projects. Before doing any calculations we came up with the assumption that we could not rank the projects simply by inspecting the cash flows. Without the ability to rank the projects based off of cash flows solely‚ we had to use some analytical criteria as a capital budgeting analyst to provide some thorough support and reasoning for how we ranked the four best
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A global investment is the the process of spreading out your investment capital between a mix of financial instruments and firms. Investors have used this strategy for many years as a good method for managing the risks associated with investing. There are four advantages to global investing: diversification‚ currency valuation‚ decreased risk‚ and taxation. The economy is cyclical in nature‚ with times of expansion and contraction. These cycles can be global‚ industry-specific or limited to a specific
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BusinessmenFord’s self-imposed injunction to play disruptor to its own sector is gaining momentum‚ and a new major investment suggests that big auto finance actors are not afraid of making the switch from hunted to hunter. In another disruptor-disrupted role-inversion‚ Ford announced a investment $182.2 in Pivotal today‚ a San Francisco-headquartered and cloud-based software platform firm‚ in a bid to enhance its software development capabilities to quicken the return on innovative projects. This
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CHAPTER 18 Investment Decisions: Ratios Test Questions 1.Income multipliers: a. are useful as a preliminary analysis tool to weed out obviously unacceptable investment opportunities. 2.The overall capitalization rate calculated on a potential acquisition: a. is the reciprocal of the net income multiplier. 3.The operating expense ratio: c. expresses operating expenses as a percent of effective gross income. 4.The equity dividend rate: b. expresses before-tax cash flow as a percent of the
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Investment Banking in 2008 Group Report 1. Failure Analysis: Identify the major factors that contributed to Bear Stearns’s failure? Who stood to benefit from its implosion? How did Bear Stearns’s collapse differ from the ‘Long Term Capital Management’ failure a decade earlier? What could Bear Stearns have done differently to avoid this fate? In the early 2000’s? And during the summer of 2007? And during the week of March 10‚ 2008? (1) Identify
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