1: “Foundations of Portfolio Theory” by. H.M. Markowitz (1991) Foundations of Portfolio Theory by H.M. Markowitz is based on a two part lesson of microeconomics of capital markets. Part one being that taught by Markowitz‚ which is solely geared toward portfolio theory and how an optimizing investor would behave‚ whereas part two focuses on the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) which is the work done by Sharpe and Lintner. In this article Markowitz speaks strictly on portfolio theory. He states
Premium Variance Probability theory Utility
1. What is the size of HMC’s portfolio? How is the portfolio managed and what are the management costs? What is the role of the Policy Portfolio? The size of HMC’s portfolio 2. Why is HMC focusing on real returns? 3. HMC’s estimates of expected returns‚ standard deviations and correlations di_er from the twenty-year historical estimates. Why might this be? Comment on the di_er- ence between the two sets of estimates‚ focusing on expected returns and standard deviations. 4. Let’s assume
Premium Investment The Return Microsoft Excel
My Finished Career Portfolio Senior Capstone Experience 1. Introduction--state your industry and what value you anticipate the portfolio will be of to you. The industry that I am most interested in is the Business Administration industry. In interviews‚ my portfolio will show potential employers the proof of my skills‚ education‚ work experience‚ references‚ career goals‚ and works in progress. By providing a career portfolio and highlighting my positives‚ employers will take me more seriously
Premium Employment
Case study: Nike: the Sweatshop Debate 1) Should Nike be held responsible for working condition in factories that it does not own‚ but where sub-contractors make products for Nike? Nike doesn’t own any manufacturing facilities and outsource its production. Therefore‚ it can’t be directly blamed for terrible working conditions. Nike can influence indirectly on working conditions at contracting factories thorough refusing to work with sweatshop factories. However‚ Nike‚ like any other capitalistic
Premium Labor Business ethics
summary of your work). You need to: identify the purpose of this portfolio and the contents explain why this portfolio was created 2. SET UP A STRUCTURE USING GOALS OR THEMES Table of Contents in Google Sites with links to individual pages created for each goal/theme. 3. CREATE A PAGE FOR EACH SECTION 4. UPLOAD ITEMS OR PIECES OF WORK AND CREATE HYPERLINKS Add the items or pieces of your work to the appropriate page in the portfolio. Hyperlinks can be created to open these files in another window
Free Teacher Group Education
CASE STUDY Q1. What could Nike as a particular Company do to ensure that their associate contract manufacturers‚ all over the world comply with minimum standards of corporate governance in their factories‚ even before they were engaged? Ans1. Nike company should deliver a legal enviironment to the manufacturing factories with which the company is carrying out its contaracts all over the world inorder to support these factories to be able to encourage the ecnomic activity all over the world which
Premium Management Manufacturing
IMAGINATION BREAKTHROUGHS : THE EVO PROJECT GE BUSINESSES JACK WELCH PROCESS ORIENTED Effective operations management Timely acquisitions and clever deal making Financially based strategies Efficiency driven JEFF IMMELT MARKETING ORIENTED Market value of technological advancements Organic growth – given top priority Technology leadership Commercial excellence Global expansion Marketing driven Long term‚ research- based approach to his tasks Immelt is transforming GE from
Premium Term General Electric Emission standard
Presentation skills SESSION PLAN 40 Module 6 Sub module 5: Session objectives Presentation skills At the end of the training session‚ trainees will be able to: Maintain the interest of the audience when presenting a session Use the appropriate teaching techniques and styles for the audience Describe the important elements of good presentation skills Time to complete sub module Training materials 45 minutes PowerPoint presentation (PPT38) Activity sheet (AS32) Handout (HO38) Question
Premium Communication Nonverbal communication Learning styles
Mangrove Forest in India Mangrove forests are one of the most productive and bio diverse wetlands on earth. Yet‚ these unique coastal tropical forests are among the most threatened habitats in the world. They may be disappearing more quickly than inland tropical reinforests‚ and so far‚ with little public notice. Growing in the inter-tidal areas and estuary mouths between land and sea‚ mangroves provide critical habitat for a diverse marine and terrestrial flora and fauna. Healthy mangrove forests
Premium Mangrove Bay of Bengal
CRITICAL SYSTEMS OBJECTIVES:- 1.A life-critical system or safety-critical system is a system whose failure or malfunction may result in: death or serious injury to people‚ or loss or severe damage to equipment or environmental harm. 2.Risks of this sort are usually managed with the methods and tools of safety engineering. 3.Typical design methods include probabilistic risk assessment‚ a method that combines failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) with fault tree analysis.
Premium Management Customer Consultative selling