1. How well has Value Trust performed in recent years? In making that assessment‚ what benchmark(s) are you using? How do you measure investment performance? What does good performance mean to you? Value trust had outperformed its benchmark index‚ the Standard & poor 500 Index for 14 years in a row; am average annual total return of 14.6 percent‚ which surpassed the S&P 500 by 3.67% per year. Value trust had earned a cumulative return of more than 830% over the previous 14 years‚ more
Premium Investment Mutual fund Stock market
Bill Gates: An Important Visionary For Better or Worse by Blake Noonan Having an imagination is a virtue. Imagining an entirely new way to communicate and interact with others through a machine is amazing in itself. Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world‚ but some consider him as the most ingenious too. Others see him as a monopolizing‚ money hungry nerd. William Gates III was born in Seattle‚ Washington in 1955. When he was thirteen‚ he wrote his first software program
Premium Microsoft Microsoft Windows Personal computer
Introduction Bill Gates is a well-known leader in the business world. His company’s inventions impacted the business world and changed the market. Bill Gates had a vision of what other executives only dream about. His values and strategies have managed to keep Microsoft on the edge of technology. Still‚ many questions have risen about Bill’s strategies on whether or not his harsh marketing depicts a monopolistic nature or is simply a result of becoming the leader of the technology industry
Premium Microsoft Bill Gates
I. All Absolute Laws supersede the Constitution of the United States as well as the Bill of Rights. It is the ultimate governing principle that must be followed at all times. Keep my head low‚ stay quiet. Day after day that’s what I’m told to do. Every day it is repeated to me that I’m less than human‚ that I’m a threat. But is that true? Or is it right on the mark? I’ve seen the “humans” walking around. Even with their extravagances and superior attitudes‚ they really don’t seem that different.
Premium United States United States Constitution Supreme Court of the United States
How a Bill Becomes a Law The origin of a law can come from all over; whether it be from the mind of an ordinary citizen‚ a cry out from a right ’s group‚ a member or staff member of Congress‚ or from the President himself. However‚ to keep our system clean from unnecessary or even oppressive laws‚ the framers of our Constitution went to great steps of making the process of legislature becoming law a very long and tedious process. Many critics would argue that there ’s inefficiency in the system
Premium United States Congress Legislatures
the SWOT and stakeholder analysis. Then‚ key stakeholder implications of REX’s strategies will be reviewed and a Corporate Balanced Scorecard that aligns with the business level strategy will be prepared. Execute Summary This passage starts with the analysis of the strength‚ weakness‚ opportunity and threat of REX‚ followed by its strategy including the key capability‚ the shareholders’ interest and what strategy it uses to compete with its rivals‚ and lastly the balance scorecard of how REX
Premium Strategic management
| Case Study Four | S&S Air International? | | | 5/7/2011 | The business world is highly competitive‚ changes quickly and is filled with risks and rewards. The international business world is no different! Things can change on the international stage in the time it takes to get a cup of tea! S&S Air has been in discussions with a dealer in Europe to sell the company’s model known as “The Eagle”. The dealer‚ Amalie Diefenbaker‚ has told S&S Air that she will pay the
Premium United States dollar Currency United Kingdom
Republic of the Philippines HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Quezon City‚ Metro Manila Fifteenth Congress Second Regular Session House Bill No. __________ ________________________________________________________________________ Introduced by AN ACT TO STRENGTHEN THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO INFORMATION HELD BY THE GOVERNMENT. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: SECTION. 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Freedom of Information
Premium Agency Government agency Separation of powers
I hold the future because I am armed with the principles to preserve our Philippine Biodiversity. Being responsible will be one of my major principles proven in all aspects we see. Our daily activities like “not segregating garbage” and “Irresponsible throwing of garbage” greatly affects the ecosystem that it causes major extinctions of different species or more like near extinctions of these poor creatures. Biodiversity’s relevance to human’s health is an issue closely linked with climate change
Premium Biodiversity Ecology Natural environment
In the Value Trust case‚ Mr. Bill Miller is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management‚ a subsidiary of Legg Mason‚ Inc. He was a co-portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust and portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Capital Management Opportunity Trust. From October 1981 through June 1985‚ Miller served as the Director of Research for Legg Mason‚ where he co-managed (with Ernie Kiehne) the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust since its
Premium Stock market Investment Mutual fund