1.-Discuss DFA as a fund and as a business. How does it add value for investors? What are the pros and cons of the passive approach? Our team thinks that DFA as a business is good especially since it is in a very competitive industry and many companies offer services in this category; but DFA’s market share is small at only 5%. Some pros about their passive approach are listed below. These will also explain how DFA works for as a fund and the value added for investors. DFA allocates the major portion
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FUND RAISING STRATEGIES: Know What You’re Selling Produced by David Connell‚ David J. Connell & Associates 1998 FUND RAISING: Know What You’re Selling! FORWARD Fund Raising Strategies: Know What You’re Selling presents fund raising in a new perspective. Many excellent sources on fund raising already exist‚ many of which have been referenced in this document‚ however‚ they only mention that the fund raising environment is more competitive. Too often‚ they fall short of positioning fund raising
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Hedge Fund Strategy - Equity Long-Short An equity long-short strategy is an investing strategy‚ used primarily by hedge funds‚ that involves taking long positions in stocks that are expected to increase in value and short positions in stocks that are expected to decrease in value. You may know that taking a long position in a stock simply means buying it: If the stock increases in value‚ you will make money. On the other hand‚ taking a short position in a stock means borrowing a stock you don’t
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Hedge Fund Strategies Problem Set: Backtesting the Carry Trade (Macro Strategies) Prof. Andrea Frazzini In this problem set‚ you backtest the currency carry trade using the data provided in the accompanying Excel spreadsheet. You can do the problem set using Excel or any other program of your choice. Please answer in the space provided (no more than three pages for questions 1-6). 1. For each month of the sample‚ rank the countries based on their interest rate (hint: Excel has a function
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Amaranth Advisors LLC was created in 2000 as a multi-strategy hedge fund with approximately $600 million in capital. It sought to employ a diverse group of arbitrage trading strategies particularly featuring convertible bonds‚ mergers and utilities. In 2002‚ Amaranth added energy commodity trading to its slate of strategies with JP Morgan Chase clearing Amaranth’s commodity trades. A multi-strategy fund runs several different strategies in-house that contribute to the total performance of the fund. A
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GAC002 Assessment Event 4: Academic Research Essay Going forward: The innovations of communication technology in China Question: Trace how technology has changed communication in your country over the past 20 years. With the development of technology‚ the changes in communication have a pivotal impact on various areas. Definitely‚ advanced technology is the main driver of these changes. Not only the way of communication has changed‚ but also the content and means of communication
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9-511-004 REV: FEBRUARY 9‚ 2011 SUNIL GUPTA KERRY HERMAN TriipAdvisor w early Mo onday mornin ng in the firstt week of Au ugust 2010‚ an nd just back in i his office frrom a It was two-w week family vacation‚ v Step phen Kaufer‚ founder and d CEO of Trip pAdvisor (TA A)‚ was happy y and relaxeed. Kaufer ha ad rented two o houses for his family’s vacation in Martha’s M Vin neyard—one house h from TA’s newest service‚ Vacaation Rentals‚ and the other from a competitor site. Kaufer K was plleased
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 ORGANIZATIONAL DOWNSIZING – A LITERATURE OVERVIEW 2 WHY DO COMPANIES DOWNSIZING? 2 STAGES OF DOWNSIZING 3 THE IMPACT OF DOWNSIZING PRACTICES ON THE PERFORMANCE 4 ALTERNATIVES TO LAYOFF 5 EARLY RETIREMENT 5 DOWNSIZING AND THE LEGAL ISSUES 6 REFERENCES: 6 INTRODUCTION Over the past decade‚ corporations have been under economic pressures for a long term. Consequently‚ some of them were eliminated from the local market‚ the survivors have been
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Going away: The Dominant Strategy Humans often question their reality. We share a common‚ physical reality and create mental realities within ourselves; these mentally created worlds are purely in our heads and can only be entered by the individuals who created them. Upon entering their mental reality‚ a person can experience what appears on the outside to look like a detachment from the common physical reality; they cannot consciously function in two realities simultaneously. Some people experience
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10. Tubes 2‚ 6‚ and 7 showed the effect of pH on amylase activity. The results of this experiment indicate that the activity maximum of amylase is at pH 7.0‚ whereas pH 2.0 and pH 9.0 demonstrated very little activity. In this experiment‚ pH 7.0 showed the highest level of amylase activity. Tube 3 showed that amylase did not contain maltose contamination. Tubes 3‚ 4‚ and 5 showed that water had no starch or maltose contamination. Tube 3 directly showed that water did not have maltose or starch contamination
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