Mary Political Economy January 10‚ 2010 Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Pose a Security Threat to Western States? Sovereign wealth funds have been on the international economic scene since the middle of the 20th century. The Kuwait Investment Authority‚ for example‚ was created in 1953. (Lyons‚ p.25) However‚ until lately they had gone either unnoticed or ignored by the majority of political commentators. Several factors have brought them to the center of attention in economic and political
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CHAPTER 4 BONDS ANND THEIR VALUATION Bond value--semiannual payment 1. You intend to purchase a 10-year‚ $1‚000 face value bond that pays interest of $60 every 6 months. If your nominal annual required rate of return is 10 percent with semiannual compounding‚ how much should you be willing to pay for this bond? N = 20 I/Y = 5 PV = -1124.62 PMT = 60 FV = 1000 Bond value--semiannual payment 2. Assume that you wish to purchase a 20-year bond that has a maturity value of $1‚000 and makes semiannual
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by chemical bonds. These chemical bonds are of two basic types—ionic and covalent. Ionic bonds result when one or more electrons from one atom or group of atoms is transferred to another atom. Positive and negative ions are created through the transfer. In covalent compounds no electrons are transferred; instead electrons are shared by the bonded atoms. The physical properties of a substance‚ such as melting point‚ solubility‚ and conductivity‚ can be used to predict the type of bond that binds
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PENSION FUNDS A pension plan fund is established for the eventual payment of retirement benefits. A plan sponsor is the entity that establishes the pension plan. A plan sponsor can be: • A private business entity on behalf of its employees‚ called a corporate plan or private plan. • A federal‚ state‚ and local government on behalf of its employees‚ called a public plan. • A union on behalf of its called a Taft-Hartley plan. • An individual‚ called an individually sponsored plan. Two
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Dimensional Fund Advisors 2012 Background‚ Principle and Strategy of DFA Dimensional is a different kind of investment firm headquartered in Austin‚ Texas with regional offices in Amsterdam‚ Berlin‚ London‚ Santa Monica‚ Sydney‚ and Vancouver now (DFA 2012) which was founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield‚ both graduates of the University Of Chicago Graduate School Of Business. The underlying principle of DFA is that the stock market was “efficient” which is‚ on one could beat
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One of the main causes of the stock market crash in 1929 was panic. A while before October 29‚ 1929‚ the day of the crash‚ the stock market was unsteady‚ increasing and lowering in prices. Even though people were saying that the stock market was at an all time high‚ even fortune tellers trusted in stock and it was never going to lower‚ they could have never expected one of the greatest stock market crashes in history. Investors noticed the stock prices lower so they cancelled their investment to
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Amortization (or amortisation) is the process of decreasing‚ or accounting for‚ an amount over a period. When used in the context of a home purchase‚ amortization is the process by which loan principal decreases over the life of a loan. With each mortgage payment that is made‚ a portion of the payment is applied towards reducing the principal‚ and another portion of the payment is applied towards paying the interest on the loan. An amortization table shows this ratio of principal and interest and
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Chapter 6 Bond Valuation 6.5 Duration and Convexity Problem Given a 4-yr treasury bond with a face value of $1‚000‚ an annual coupon rate of 3.20%‚ which had a yield to maturity of 2.53%‚ this bond makes 2 semi-annual coupon payments. Thus has 8 periods until maturity and we are required to determine what the duration‚ modified duration‚ and convexity of this bond is‚ based on the Annual Percentage Rate (APR) and the Effective Annual Rate (EAR). Also‚ we are asked to explain an intuitive interpretation
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during the stock market crash. People lost their jobs‚ businesses were forced to close‚ houses went up for sale‚ and all hope was lost. Furthermore‚ the crash of the stock market affected many different aspects of the world including citizens‚ the United States economy‚ and places outside the United States tremendously. At the time when the stock market crashed President Hoover was in office and therefore blamed for the start and most of the effects of the stock market crash. In 1929 the stock market
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VIETNAM BOND MARKET Nguyen Ngoc Anh Ministry of Finance – Vietnam 11/2009 A YOUNG AND GROWING MARKET • The Vietnam bond market development was boosted when Vietnam entered WTO in 2006. Total market capitalsisation is now at 15% of GDP. >500 government bonds outstanding on some USD 12 billion After 2008 foreign exodus the market today is predominantly Vietnamese with a handful of big players. In the absence of mutual funds and pension funds‚ banks dare key players. BOND GROWTH 2001-2008
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