INVESTIGATING MUTUAL FUNDS IN GHANA: IT’S RISK‚ RETURN AND PERFORMANCE ABSTRACT Over the years‚ investors have been attracted to mutual funds. This study seeks to do an-depth analysis of the Ghanaian mutual fund industry between the years 2006 and 2010. An exhaustive literature review on mutual funds and portfolio diversification will be conducted. An assessment of the performance of mutual funds will be done using the Sharpe and Sortino ratios as well as the Jensen Alpha. Comparisons will be made
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Volunteers: The Cornerstone of Every Nonprofit Nadine Cape Empire State College Abstract The following research paper covers the problems nonprofits have recruiting volunteers and the best practices they should use. This is an issue with many nonprofits and lends itself to deep discussion and understanding. This topic interests me because I like to actively participate in community events and leading or creating events that
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criteria tougher because they were not receiving funds from households. Due to them not receiving funds‚ the interest rates for mortgages rose; this allowed the mortgage companies to still receive a profit. According to the Loanable Funds theory‚ mortgage companies such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae had to raise their interest rates because they had less supply to loan out. When this happened‚ individuals and businesses lowered their demand for loanable funds. This caused the financial system to remain
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Violence in the Movies Should Be Restricted Do you think a movie without any violence is less popular to capture audiences’ attention? There are a large number of movies come to the audiences everyday. For both movie producer and audiences’ benefit‚ violence in movies seems to be necessary. However‚ it is necessary for us to restrict violence in movies because teenage audiences will be easily influenced in bad ways; people will become apathetic in society while they have repeated exposure to violence
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Q1. Why is it difficult to establish a new fund? Why is track record so important in fund raising? The main concern is to convince the investors to invest their money in Gobi. Therefore‚ it is necessary to raise a rational-sized fund. To raise a new fund is not an easy thing to do as everything including the fund structure‚ team‚ approach‚ LP base‚ and amount of capital have to be defined appropriately. The general partners also need to contribute their own money in order to convince the investors
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Facebook is a social networking site that allows users over the age of 13 to share photos‚ keep in touch with friends‚ and make new acquaintances. Opening a Facebook account is exceedingly effortless. All one has to do is provide one’s full name‚ one’s e-mail‚ and one’s birthday. I strongly believe that People under 18 should not be allowed on Facebook. Once you are a member of Facebook‚ not only do your friends look at your account‚ but people from all around the world are able to access your profile
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Employee’s Profident Fund Act‚ 1952 Introduction: * Salary consists of two parts i.e. earnings & deductions * Provident Fund is one of the statutory deduction done by the employer at the time of salary payment * Provident Fund is governed by the Employee’s Provident Fund Act 1952 * Provident Fund has come into force to give better future to employees on their retirement & his dependants in case of his death during employment * The Employees Provident Funds Act 1952 is compulsory
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partitioned into two groups the "elected" and the "state government". The state government practices its obligations towards the state without the elected group meddling. It’s kind of a plan on both sides however both have sovereign forces. The perspective of James Bryce in regards to the federalism is the idea of double federalism and he believes that the administration is separated between two governments‚ the elected and state governments and both of the legislatures perform autonomously "without
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Introduction Wiggill (2011) points out that nonprofits must be managed in a manner similar to for-profit‚ or commercial organizations. Communication is one of the most important aspects of any commercial or nonprofit organization. How is an organization going to succeed and get their product or message out to the public if they do not make attempts to communicate? Like all businesses‚ nonprofit organizations have struggles developing and executing effective communication. There are proven and
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A Comparison Between High-Impedance and Low-Impedance Restricted Earth-Fault Transformer Protection Casper Labuschagne‚ Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories‚ Inc. Izak van der Merwe‚ Eskom Enterprises Abstract—Restricted earth-fault (REF) protection on a transformer is a subject for which there has been little attention and‚ compared to other types of protection‚ very little literature exists. Depending on the method of transformer earthing and fault location‚ some transformer earth faults result
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