Advantages and Disadvantages of Municipal Bonds The greatest advantage of municipal bonds can be summed up in two words: tax free. The interest rates on municipal bonds may seem low compared to similar long-term securities like Treasury bills and CDs‚ but tax advantages may level the playing field. Let ’s look at some examples. If you ’re in the 25 percent bracket for 2008 federal income taxes‚ you ’d have to find a taxable security with an interest rate of 4 percent to equal the yield of a tax-free
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INTRODUCTION Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) reported in its Annual Report 2010 that household debt was RM581 billion. It represents 76% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This scenario arises because Malaysian spend on avarage almost half of their income to pay off their debts. Only a minimum amount is left to be spent on children education‚ food‚ transport‚ health or even emergencies. If the breadwinner lose his job or passed away‚ the family will find it difficult to take over the responsibility
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Satisfaction ratings (feedback) Very satisfied Go to home service‚ Advice 3. Customer loyalty Repeat customer rate 75% Follow up‚ Friendly reminder 4. Customer Acquisition Number of new customer 25% Facebook ads‚ flyers‚ blogs A. 3 critical question : 1. Who are our target customers? - Muslim/Muslimah - People believe in BEKAM treatment. 2. What do our customers expect or demand from us? - value for money service - True explaination about the “’blood’’ - Correct
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Following are the characteristics of communications: • It is unavoidable – It is impossible not to communicate‚ since we communicate unintentionally all the time‚ even without the use of words. Our body language‚ the way we dress‚ the importance we give to arriving on time‚ our behavior and the physical environment in which we work‚ all convey certain messages to others. • It is a two-way exchange of information – Communication is sharing of information between two or more persons‚ with
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1. Briefly explain why many corporations prefer to issue callable long-term corporate bonds rather than non-callable long-term bonds. There are three main reasons why a corporation may be interested in calling a bond. * Interest rates have fallen‚ so they can refinance at a lower rate. * Credit quality has improved‚ so they can refinance at a lower rate. * Assets have been sold‚ so money is available to pay off debt. If a bond issuer pays investors the going rate of 7% annually in interest‚ and
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A. Identify and briefly explain three functions of religion (9 marks) Marxism believes it acts as the ‘opium for the exploited working class people’. Religion would cushion the pain of oppression and exploitation in unequal societies such as in a capitalist society. It legitimized and maintained the power of the ruling class – helps to maintain the status quo by preventing the less powerful from changing things. Feminists see religion as a conservative force because it acts as an ideology that legitimates
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Behaviour approach to treating mental health disorders seek to identify and help change potentially self-destructive or unhealthy behaviours. Its focus is the idea that‚ all behaviours are learned and those unhealthy behaviours can be changed. It primarily focuses of treatment is often on current problems and how to change them (Healthline.com‚ 2016). Advantages of behaviour approach include: The approach deals with basic ideas that are clear to understand. It makes the approach easy to practice
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Will My Risk Parity Strategy Outperform? Robert M. Anderson∗ University of California at Berkeley Stephen W. Bianchi† University of California at Berkeley Lisa R. Goldberg‡ MSCI and University of California at Berkeley November 10‚ 2011§ Abstract We gauge the return-generating potential and risk inherent in four investment strategies: value weighted‚ fixed mix‚ and levered and unlevered risk parity‚ over an 85-year horizon. There are three essential conclusions from our study. First‚ even over periods
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Identify and briefly explain three reasons why the New Christian Right might have failed to achieve its aims (9marks) The New Christian Right is a politically and morally conservative‚ protestant fundamentalist movement. The aims are extremely ambitious as they wish to make abortion‚ homosexuality and divorce illegal. They want to turn back to a time before liberalisation of American culture and society began. The New Christian Right may have failed to achieve its aims because the group lacked wide
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Behaviourist approach This approach refers to behaviour being mainly influenced by the environment also by reinforcing rewards for positive behaviour and punishments for negative behaviour. B.F. Skinner investigated Operant Conditioning of voluntary and involuntary behaviour. He explained that behaviour occurs for a reason‚ and the three main behaviour shaping techniques are positive reinforcement‚ negative reinforcement and punishment. Behaviourism has been criticised in the way it under-estimates
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