FIXED INCOME SECURITIES Fixed Income can be a very important investment class by which one can diversify his/her portfolio to reduce risk. Putting all your money into equities (read more about equity investment) can give you more returns but it does carry high risk as well. Diversification is a basic concept of financial planning and fixed income products come in handy to help us achieve this objective. Let us see what are the different types of fixed income securities and how they help savvy
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Malaysia Plan is supposed to be the ultimate government strategic plan prior to achieve 2020 vision as a high income nation as proposed by ex PM Mahathir two decade ago envisioning “Wawasan 2020”. Under the vision Malaysia are supposed to be a developed high income nation with highly accelerated economic growth rate resulting in approximately US$ 15‚000 income per capita‚ or average national income of RM 55‚000 per person (assuming US$ 1: RM 3.70) per annum by year 2020. While this seemingly intriguing
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DEGREE/CERTIFICATE‚ IF FOUND AT ANY STAGE. 2. SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS BORROWED OR STOLEN FROM OTHER(S) AS ONE’S OWN WILL BE PENALIZED AS DEFINED IN “AIOU PLAGIARISM POLICY”. Course: Basics of ICT (1431) Semester: Spring‚ 2013 Level: B.A Total Marks: 100 ASSIGNMENT No. 1 Note: All questions carry equal marks. Q. 1 Describe the basic concept of ICT. Also explain and exemplify different applications of ICT. Q. 2 Define the term “computer” in detail and describe different generations of computer.
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economic growth is therefore associated with urbanization. The pace of urbanization is‚ in turn‚ accelerated with a larger response of migration. Empirical evidence shows that no country has grown to middle income status without industrializing and urbanizing. None has grown to high income without vibrant cities. Between 1980 and 1998‚ 86 percent of the growth in value added in developing countries came from the manufacturing and services sector. Rapid productivity gains mainly reflected improvements
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Measurement of National Income • Like the accounts of a business national income accounts have two sides: a product side and an income side. • On the product side production and sales are measured. • The income side measures the distribution of the proceeds from sales. • On the product side there are two widely reported measures of overall production: • Gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national product (GNP) • GDP and GNP differ in their treatment of international transactions. • GNP
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Per capita income as a measure of prosperity Per capita income is often used as average income‚ a measure of the wealth of the population of a nation‚ particularly in comparison to other nations. Per capita income is often used to measure a country’s standard of living. It is usually expressed in terms of a commonly used international currency such as the Euro or United States dollar‚ and is useful because it is widely known‚ easily calculated from readily-available GDP and population estimates
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Concepts in Statistics. In this introduction‚ we will briefly discuss those elementary statistical concepts that provide the necessary foundations for more specialized expertise in any area of statistical data analysis. The selected topics illustrate the basic assumptions of most statistical methods and/or have been demonstrated in research to be necessary components of one’s general understanding of the "quantitative nature" of reality (Nisbett‚ et al.‚ 1987). Because of space limitations‚ we will focus
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Recently‚ a term known as income inequality has been thrown around in the debate between the rich and the poor. Income inequality is the unfair and ever expanding disparity between the nation ’s highest-income households‚ and the lowest-income households. Although it ’s impossible to establish 100% equality‚ due to it being unfair to give everyone the same exact income even though certain individuals work harder than others‚ thus it should be our
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global powers‚ India has become a hub of domestic and exports business. The automobile sector has been contributing its share to the shining economic performance of India in the recent years. With the Indian middle class earning higher per capita income‚ more people are ready to own private vehicles including cars and two- wheelers. Product movements and manned services have boosted in the sales of medium and sized commercial vehicles for passenger and goods transport. Side by
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MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY A constituent institute of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) - Deemed University MANIPAL – 576 104‚ KARNATAKA‚ INDIA. Subject Code: ECE – 101/201 BASIC ELECTRONICS COURSE MATERIAL For 1ST & 2ND Semester B.E. (Revised Credit System) DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING CONTENTS Module 1. – SEMI CONDUCTOR THEORY Mr. Hemanth Kumar A.R.‚ Lecturer‚ Pg. 27 – 49 Pg. 1 – 26 Module 2. – PN JUNCTION DIODE AND ITS APPLICATIONS
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