1. Recently‚ you sold 1‚000 shares of stock for $21‚400. The sale was a short sale with an initial margin requirement of 60 percent. The maintenance margin is 30 percent. The stock is currently trading at $27.50 a share. What is your current margin position in this stock? Assets = $21‚400 Equity = $21‚400 x .60 = $12‚840 Short position = 1‚000 x $27.50 = $27‚500 Account equity = $21‚400 + $12‚840 - $27‚500 = $6‚740 Margin position = $6‚740 / $27‚500 = 24.51 % 2. Matt short sold 500 shares
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Hello Wallet Case GIIM 636 Question 1: How do the concepts of behavioral finance create opportunities for HelloWallet? The current financial advising sites such as HelloWallet as well as its competitors‚ such as Mint.com and Yodlee‚ provide budget and virtual financial advising service based purely on user bank transactions and spending category. The HelloWallet system allows the user to create and track customized budget plan. What is more important is that the system can automatically
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Project report On Rate of Exchange and Foreign Investment The Indian case from 2009-10 to 2011-12 Acknowledgement As a part of PGDM curriculum at Birla Institute of Management Technology‚ the preparation of this project report has been a unique and rewarding experience. Apart from our efforts‚ the success of any project depends largely on the encouragement and guidelines of many others. We take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the people
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CHAPTER IV INVESTMENT PATTERN OF INDIAN MUTUAL FUNDS This chapter analyses the investment patterns of the Ind~anmutual fund industry as a whole in general‚ the pnvate mutual funds and UTI in particular An attempt is also made in this chapter to compare across the d~fferent mutual funds on the pattern of their deployment of funds. The most Important activity In a mutual fund and operation is management of funds Fund managers acquire sk~lls expertise over a period of time. They need to have knowledge
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Finance 452: Investment Management Case: Yale University Investments Office Megan Hurley‚ Robert Liu‚ Aaron Nachman‚ David Naert‚ Erik Westerlund Case Intro: In August 2006 with David Swensen as head of the Yale Investments Office‚ the Yale endowment has grown to 18 billion dollars. This was achieved with the help of focusing on less efficient markets such as private equity‚ real assets‚ and absolute return investments. However‚
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Risk Analysis in Investment Appraisal by Savvakis C. Savvides Published in “Project Appraisal”‚ Volume 9 Number 1‚ pages 3-18‚ March 1994 © Beech Tree Publishing 1994 Reprinted with permission ABSTRACT* This paper was prepared for the purpose of presenting the methodology and uses of the Monte Carlo simulation technique as applied in the evaluation of investment projects to analyse and assess risk. The first part of the paper highlights the importance of risk analysis in investment
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MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY Faculty of Business and Economics AFIN828 International Investment and Risk Assignment Semester 1 / 2013 1) Using the price series provided in the spreadsheet assignment_data.xls calculate the monthly returns for Westpac (WBK)‚ Wesfarmers (WES) and Rio Tinto (RIO) for the considered time period from January 2nd‚ 2012 to January 1st‚ 2013. (25 Marks) a) Considering a possible investment in WBK and WES‚ calculate the mean (monthly) return‚ the standard deviation of return and
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SAINT AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA [pic] TOPIC: FACTORS AFFECTING INVESTORS ON LONGTERM INVESTMENTS CASE STUDY: NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY FUND‚ HEAD OFFICE‚ DAR ES SALAAM RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED TO FACULT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE REQUIREMENT OF AN AWARD OF BACHELOR DEGREE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION RWEGOSHORA‚ JUSTUS .K 2008/2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS COPYRIGHT…………………………………………………………………………..(i) DECLARATION………………………………………………………………………(ii)
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Questionnaire Thank you for allowing us to communicate with you. I am a student of Global Institute of Management‚ Bhubaneswar conducting a research under SBI Mutual Fund‚ Cuttack‚ as a part of our course curriculum under MBA‚ BPUT. Please answer the questions as honest as possible. We assure you that all responses will be held strictly confidential. This survey is purely for the purpose of research in academics and not to be shared with any individual or company without their consent.
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Investment Trusts Trading At Discount TOPIC # 3 Introduction According to Cheng et al. (1994‚ p.813)‚ ‘an investment trust company (ITC) is a UK public limited company‚ the business of which consists of investing its funds mainly in securities‚ with the aim of spreading investment risk and giving members of the company the benefit of the results of the management of its funds.’ In the UK‚ investment trusts started to form as early as the mid 1800s and helped small investors to diversify
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