Frame the issue. Discuss the advantages and limitations of optimal portfolio allocation. HMC defined their Policy Portfolio to correspond to their benchmark‚ according to the modern portfolio theory (Markowitz‚ 1952)‚ whose goal is to minimize the variance for a given return. The main advantage of the optimal portfolio allocation lies in its ability to provide weights on how to invest a given amount of money based on a few inputs. Optimal portfolio allocation is easy to implement‚ yet it faces
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Book review of “For the love of India” (A biography of Jamsetji Tata ‚ written by R.M.Lala) Jamsetji Tata‚ the founder of Tata sons‚ was a pioneer of Indian Industry. He is credited with giving Indian Industry a new direction by creating a vision for first steel plant & hydroelectric plant. Prior to that‚ Business community in India was basically a trading community‚ with only major exports in cotton‚ jute & tea. He was the one who changed India’s industrial & economic character. He fulfilled
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Nano Aerial Vehicles and Micro Aerial Vehicles are primarily used for military applications which include Intelligence‚ Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR missions)‚ and used for both indoor and outdoor missions‚ which represents a challenging environment factor to overcome. The use of MAVs and NAVs reduce human risk as it does not require an on-board pilot for the mission‚ they also tend to improve the assessment of danger and have visibility in the dark when equipped with infrared cameras. Other
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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL Performance appraisal is the process of obtaining‚ analyzing and recording information about the relative worth of an employee. The focus of the performance appraisal is measuring and improving the actual performance of the employee and also the future potential of the employee. Its aim is to measure what an employee does. It is a powerful tool to calibrate‚ refine and reward the performance of the employee. It helps to analyze his achievements and
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Coventry University Harvard Reference Style The Coventry University’s Harvard Reference Style is the recommended format for documenting all the sources you use in your academic writing. The golden rule when documenting sources is to be transparent. Ask yourself whether you could find the passage/image/publication/web site address with the information you have provided. To download a full guide on using the CU Harvard Reference Style‚ visit www.coventry.ac.uk/caw and follow the ‘CU Harvard Style’ links
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Basic: 1. Why does Harvard spend so many resources managing its endowment? Why not simply invest in Treasury Bonds and be done? 2. Why this emphasis on real returns as opposed to nominal returns? 3.How does HMC form its capital market assumptions? Why don’t they use past statistics to project the future? What do HMC’s capital market assumptions imply about the forward looking domestic equity premium? How does it compare to the historical equity premium? 4.If cash has zero standard deviation
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Tata Group of Industries The story of Tata begins in 1868 when a young boy named Jamsetji Tata joined his father’s small trading company. Thirty-five years later‚ that same boy was the owner of India’s largest textile company‚ Tata Textile. Over the last century‚ Tata has excelled in many different business sectors including Materials (Steel and Mining)‚ Agriculture‚ Energy‚ Consumer Products‚ Information Technology‚ Consultancy‚ Finance‚ Automobiles‚ Chemicals‚ Engineering and Hospitality. Tata
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Carbon nanotube 1 Carbon nanotube Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure. Nanotubes have been constructed with [1] length-to-diameter ratio of up to 132‚000‚000:1‚ significantly larger than for any other material. These cylindrical carbon molecules have unusual properties‚ which are valuable for nanotechnology‚ electronics‚ optics and other fields of materials science and technology. In particular‚ owing to their extraordinary thermal conductivity
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policies and practices that will meet employees’ needs‚ thus contribute to the organization’s performance and mission. This essay will analyze critically on how and why people are of value to organization based on the model‚ concepts‚ and assumptions of Harvard / SHRM model. Besides‚ it will also discuss how each model can contribute to company success through valuing and managing its employees. Employees are the most valuable thing as they are the people who can add value to the organization through their
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Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai‚ Maharashtra‚ India.[3] It encompasses seven business sectors: communications and information technology‚ engineering‚ materials‚ services‚ energy‚ consumer products and chemicals. Tata Group was founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata as a trading company. It has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents. Tata Group has over 100 operating companies each of them operates independently. Out of them 32 are
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