Investment Memo December 2‚ 2012 Having worked as a quant‚ I have a deep understanding of different quantitative strategies among several asset classes. In the equity world‚ quantitative strategies usually mean stock screens. While I believe in systematic investing‚ I also do recognize some pitfalls of algorithm-based stock screens. Thus‚ my investment goal is to develop a fusion strategy combining highly sophisticated quantitative and thorough fundamental portfolio management. The first step
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anything else? I firmly believe that wealthy people will always prefer to get financial advice from living‚ breathing‚ thinking people rather than software. They are happy to pay so as to have real relationships with their estate planners‚ financial advisors‚ CPAs and private bankers. This seems obvious to me and probably to you. But it is not obvious to many others. I don’t know Nick Shalek but he seems really smart and well-intentioned in what he’s trying to say here: Thankfully‚ Software Is
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ZDNet Make the Case Series: IT Business Case Template: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Solutions General Introduction Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one benefit of the convergence between data and telecommunications. Companies today are seeing the value of transporting voice over IP networks to reduce telephone and facsimile costs and to set the stage for advanced multimedia applications and services such as unified messaging‚ in which voice‚ fax‚ and e-mail are all combined
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shares on margin 12 months ago at a cost per share of $35. The initial margin requirement on this stock is 60 percent and the maintenance margin is 30 percent. Robin also needs to pay loan rate of 3.0 percent. What is her total dollar return on this investment? 800 Shares $29440 Assets $35 cost per share $28000 x .6 = $16800 $28000 - $16800 = $11200 3% of $11200 = 336 $29440 -11536 = $17904 $17904 - $16800 = $1104 5. Rudolfo purchased 900 shares of stock for $62.20 a share six months
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MATH OF INVESTMENT (FORMULAS AND SAMPLE PROBLEMS) SIMPLE INTEREST: a) I= Prt b) F= P+ I c) I= F- P d) F= P (1 + rt) e) P= F / 1+ rt f) R= I / Pt g) P= I / rt h) t= I / Pr i) EXACT INTEREST: j) k) Ie= Pr approximate time Ie= Pr exact time l) 365 days 360 days m) n) ORDINARY INTEREST o) p) Io= Pr exact time Io= Pr approximate time q)
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Executive Summary This report intends to highlight the current issues StarHub faces and its impact on their earnings and share valuations. Telco industry in Singapore only has three players – StarHub‚ SingTel and M1‚ thus‚ we would also look at SingTel and M1 to aid in our analysis. In our report‚ we first use the SWOT analysis and Michael Porter’s five forces to address StarHub current issues as the issues identified would affect StarHub future earnings. The majority of the threats that StarHub
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\ Return on Investment Name Institutional Affiliation QUESTION 1 Experts argue that its essentials to establish ROI parameters before embarking on new public health projects especially those involve acquisition of new information technologies. This means that before embarking on the projects‚ organizations should calculate the incremental gain from such actions basing their parameters on the long term gain. Before undertaking healthcare information systems and related projects‚
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1.What were the possible synergies and forces propelling the merger between P&G and Gillette—as well as the history of other takeover attempts for Gillette? Both P & G and Gillette were established in the early 1900’s and served similar purposes. Gillette and P & G are both strong‚ stable companies and could make an even stronger company. One of the propellers causing the companies to merge was that Gillette sold to men while P & G focused on women in the industry. These companies sell similar
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COLGATE - PALMOLIVE CO. FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND OF COLGATE Colgate was founded as a small business which mainly in New York in 1806‚ Colgate Palmolive (CL) never stops its step on developing and improving its business‚ at the same time‚ the exploration of Colgate has ever never stopped as well. Through acquisition and expansion strategies‚ according to Forbes‚ Colgate has become the 65th largest company in the world
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Finance 400- International Finance Foreign markets can be very attractive to investors because indexes in various countries around the world have managed a double or triple digit return on investments. Investors realize these high returns and pursue to invest in foreign markets. There are different ways to invest in foreign markets. There are three main ways to invest in foreign markets‚ Exchange traded funds (ETF) or mutual funds‚ American Depositary Receipts (ADR)‚ and through multinational
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