“Optimal Versus Naïve Diversification: How Inefficient Is The 1/N Portfolio Strategy” – A Critique Title: The title of the paper “Optimal Versus Naïve Diversification: How Inefficient Is The 1/N Portfolio Strategy” has been reasonably well phrased. However‚ it can be argued that the title is a little misleading as the principal objective of the paper is to test how efficient different optimal diversification strategies are using the 1/N portfolio strategy as the benchmark and not to try and elucidate
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1. Based on prices for comparable transactions‚ how would you assess the reasonableness of the Bet Performers $133 million purchase price in May 2008? To value a ship using the market approach‚ one had to identify a set of “comparable” ships where comparability was based on four main factors: ship type‚ size (DWT)‚ age‚ and condition. According to Exhibit 3‚ there are five ships which are the most comparable to Bet Performer. They are Martha Verity‚ Ingenious‚ Sumihou‚ Cape Sun‚ and Coppersmith
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Corporate Restructuring: Corporate restructuring is one of the most complex and fundamental phenomena that management confronts. Each company has two opposite strategies from which to choose: to diversify or to refocus on its core business. While diversifying represents the expansion of corporate activities‚ refocus characterizes a concentration on its core business. From this perspective‚ corporate restructuring is reduction in diversification. Corporate restructuring is an episodic exercise‚
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ENOCH DADZIE MPIMWOOD SCHOOL: COVENTRY UNIVERSITY PROGRAM: MBA-FINANCE STUDENT ID: COVBAF0513079 INTAKE: MAY 2013 COURSE ASSIGNMENT Wood.noon@gmail.com Contact: +233 244137533 The Dow Jones Industrial Average Brief Introduction The Dow Jones Industrial Average also called the‚ the Dow Jones Industrial‚ Dow‚ is a stock market index‚ and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. It was founded on May 26‚ 1896‚ and is now
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THREAT OR STRENGHT ? Corporate venturing behavior is generally related to innovative activities. Creating a corporate venture is a useful choice for firms interested in entering new businesses by expanding operations into new or existing markets (Guth &Ginsberg‚1990; Zahra 1993‚ 1995‚ 1996). Through corporate ventures‚ a company can invest in new products or technologies by funding businesses that have a fairly autonomous management team‚ with the goal of developing new products or
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Introduction Disney is a famous international company around the world. Not only for the production of cartoon and Disneyland‚ but also the effort that it have made in sustainable development. Disney has made high efficiency collaboration with Nature Conservancy-a famous environmental protection organization. They have worked closely with each other for decades to create the Disney Wilderness Preserve (DWP) in central Florida (“Working with Companies”‚ n.d.). Their collaboration was a success (“Florida
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Loan diversification system of Janata bank‚ Rajshahi. Abstract The study is mainly designed to know the different credit programme of Janata Bank and to know its performance. There are many institutions which play a vital role for charging the social structure and for the economic development for our country. Janata bank is one of the most important financial institutions of them. It is playing a vital role for economic development and employment generation by its different credit programme. As
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A practical guide to risk assessment* How principles-based risk assessment enables organizations to take the right risks *connectedthinking pwc 0ii A practical guide to risk assessment Table of contents The heart of the matter 2 Effective risk assessment is increasingly important to the success of any business. An in-depth discussion 4 Risk assessment forms the foundation of an effective enterprise risk management program. Defining risk assessment A foundation
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Opportunities‚ Threats‚ Strengths‚ Weaknesses and SWOT Strategies HEWLETT PACKARD Opportunities 1. The worldwide personal computer industry posted its fourth consecutive year of double digit expansion in 2006‚ recording 10 percent unit growth. 2. PC shipments in the Asia-Pacific region expanded by an estimated 17.6 percent in 2006 on a unit basis. 3. IDC’s “rest of the world” category‚ which includes Eastern Europe‚ Latin America‚ and the Middle East rose 22 percent on
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HP S Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) N Series Data sheet Product overview The HP S Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) N Series achieves a new level of inline‚ real-time protection‚ providing proactive network security for today’s and tomorrow’s real-world network traffic and data centers. The IPS platform’s next-generation architecture adds significant capacity for deep packet traffic inspection‚ and its modular software design enables the addition of valuable network protection services
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