Investment Banking in 2008 (A): Rise and Fall of the Bear 1. What role did Bear’s culture play in its positioning vis-à-vis its competitors‚ and what role might that culture have played in its demise? Bear Stearns played a risky role with the promise of high returns. Bear was participating in the LTCM and created a bubble. Bear’s competitors recognized and hedged against risk by participating in the buyout while Bear Stearns ignored the bullish market. Other banks hired both externally as well
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The Investment Detective Case We can use normal investment to calculate the data‚ but we also can do it as reinvestment to invest every project for the same years. For every question‚ I will give answers for both normal investment and reinvestment. 1. We can rank the projects simply by the cash flow data. Normal investment: Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Project number 3 8 6 1 5 7 4 2 Cash flow 8000 2150 200 1310 2200 560 1561 165 Reinvestment: Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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Legality of object The main issue in this problem is whether there is an ’agreement’ - offer and acceptance However‚ on the first element of intention to create legal relations‚ it is clearly a business/commercial relationship between Tallula Investments Ltd and Italian Cuisine Ltd and therefore the presumption is that the parties intend to enter into legal relations. There is no evidence to rebut this presumption (see Jones v Vernon Pools). The next issue to be dealt with is the ’offer’. Has
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Single Investment. Expected return is a tool used to determine whether or not an investment has a positive or negative average net outcome. The most highest expected return is from Yong Tai Berhad. Standard deviation is a quantity expressing by how much the members of a group differ from the mean value for the group. The lowest standard deviation among this three company is from Hiap Teck Venture. Coefficient of variation represents the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean‚ and
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Investment Objectives Investment objectives cover how we accomplish most financial goals. These investment objectives are important because certain products and strategies work for one objective‚ but may produce poor results for another objective. It is quite likely you will use several of these investment objectives simultaneously to accomplish different objectives without any conflict. The other five specific objectives are stated below. Capital Appreciation Capital appreciation is
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organizations‚ investment incentives. Recently‚ it has attracted a lot of investment from foreign countries. Among the investment sectors‚ the real estate has recovered recently due to the currently increasing capital inflow. From September 2010 to September 2011‚ Ministry of Land Management‚ Urbanization & Construction has approved 1‚689 projects‚ value of 999.3 million US$‚ which increases 97% in compared to the same period last year. . CAMBODIA POLICIES IN INVESTMENT AND LAND - All investment projects:
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points) A possibility to loose money. What is diversification? (0.5 points) Spreading investments. What is risk tolerance? (0.5 points) The amount of risk you can handle. What are debt investments? (0.5 points) Non promised investments. What are equity investments? (0.5 points) More promised investments. Lesson 3 (3.0 points) What are stocks? (0.5 points) An investment where you get a share from the ownership/stock. What are bonds? (0.5 points) Lending money
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GUIDEBOOK ON BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT IN VIETNAM BERLIN‚ 2011 FOREWORD Over the past two decades‚ Viet Nam’s economy has bee n developing rapidly owing to its “Doi moi” (Renovation) policy and activeness to integrate itself into the global economy. W ith its enormous efforts and determination‚ and effective cooperation with international partners and friends worldwide‚ Viet Nam is taking firm steps towards industrialization and modernization. With a stable political environment and great
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INFLATION INFLUENCE ABOUT INVESTMENT DECISION Associate Professor PhD Dorel Berceanu‚ dorelberceanu@yahoo.com Associate Professor PhD Anca Băndoi‚ anca_bandoi@yahoo.com University of Craiova ABSTRACT: In this article‚ we are dealing with an issue very important as regards the investment decision‚ namely the influence that it has on inflation. Thus‚ in a brief introduction spotlighted how we have perceived inflation today‚ what it means and how it manifests itself. An ample space in the paper is
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Kris Howard Investment Banking The intensely competitive‚ action-oriented‚ profit-hungry world of investment banking can seem like a bigger-than-life place where deals are done and fortunes are made. Investment bank includes but is not limited to bringing an established company to the market‚ by that I mean taking company with the capabilities but not capital of expanding‚ and raising money through other investors or the stock market (IPO) for a commission‚ I chose this field because
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