Course Syllabus Portfolio Theory and Application I Finance Department‚ School of Business Fall 2014 Instructor Information Instructor: Telephone: E-mail: Office Hours: Aimei Zhong‚ CFA‚ CAIA 610-833-2691 (c) aimei.zhong@villanova.edu Monday 8:15 – 8:45pm or by appointment Course Identification Course Numbers: Course Name: Course Location: Class Times: MSF 8640 Portfolio Theory and Applications I Bartley Hall 3069 Monday 5:30pm – 8:15pm Course Description/Overview A hands-on class where students
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Dimensional Fund Advisors‚ 2002 1. What is DFA’s business strategy? What do you think of the firm? Are the DFA people really believe in efficient markets? Although DFA is dedicated to the principle of efficient market‚ but to some extent‚ the DFA people do not totally believe it. According to the efficient market hypothesis‚ when market efficiency is strong-form‚ stocks always trade at their fair value on stock exchanges and technical analysis‚ fundamental analysis and insider trading analysis
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Q4 - OE_Strengths What do you see as Flowers’ particular strengths? "Barriers to entry to their business. Their moats are wide." Q5 - OE_Weaknesses What do you see as Flowers’ particular weaknesses? "To me it’s a hard thing to understand. It’s difficult for investors to understand the value of the company. Maybe it’s confusing for investors. It seems like it would be pretty straightforward but if there’s more volatility in the business than you’d expect‚ or maybe that investors don’t understand
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Chapter 6: Process Synchronization Module 6: Process Synchronization Background The Critical-Section Problem Peterson’s Solution Synchronization Hardware Semaphores Classic Problems of Synchronization Monitors Synchronization Examples Atomic Transactions Operating System Concepts 6.2 Silberschatz‚ Galvin and Gagne ©2005 Background Concurrent access to shared data may result in data inconsistency Maintaining data consistency requires mechanisms to ensure
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Management Company was successful in 1989 and 1990. This success had brought in enough new money to double the size of the company. However‚ Ms. Wolfe had lost some potential new clients who had thought it unusual that Beta Management used only an index mutual fund and picked none of its own stocks. Sarah Wolfe was considering Beta’s new goal and directions for coming year. II. A. Ms. Wolfe decided to follow “ index” to adjust equity market exposure. This is a good strategy due to that at the beginning
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bank pays 3.2% annual interest on its account. How long will it be before you have enough to buy the car? T= (In ($150‚000/$35‚000)/ ((In (1+.032)) = 46.20years 3. Suppose you are still committed to owing a $150‚000 Ferrari. If you believe your mutual fund can achieve 10.25% annual rate of return‚ and you want to buy the car in 10 years on the day you turn 30‚ how much must you invest today? PV=FV(1+r)^-t PV=$150‚000(1+.1025)^-10 PV=$56‚533.42 He should invest $56‚533.42 today 4. You have just
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E- Business at HEDGE EQUITIES PVT LTD Introduction to HEDGE EQUITIES PVT LTD Team Hedge is a balanced mix of more than 15 years experience cutting across various industries with a strong background in the financial markets. The board comprises of six power houses in their respective fields - Fedex Securities‚ Baby Marine Exports‚ Thakker Developers‚ Smart financial‚ SM Hegde (CFO‚ Videocon Industries) and Padmashree Mohan Lal Fedex Securities Managed
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business objective of becoming a global‚ full financial services provider to its client base of approximately 15 million individuals (primarily American heads of household)‚ the firm needed to move from its mutual insurance company status to a publicly traded stock company. Since in a mutual company the policy holders are the “owners” of the company and in a stock company the stockholders constitute the owners‚ MET was obliged to issue stock to all its policy holders‚ based on the total worth of
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has a highly skilled workforce that is growing with a high per capita income relative to the nation as a whole. Many Nebraska business leaders and companies convey a strong positive outlook for our city and state. Dan Neary‚ chairman and CEO‚ Mutual of Omaha‚ states‚ “While uncertainty over the economy between both consumers and business will constrain growth on the national level‚ Omaha continues to defy the national trend with positive growth and good levels of capital investment. Omaha’s well-diversified
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to 64‚000 fake policyholders‚ and eventually “killed” some of his phony holders to help keep the $2 billion fraud alive. Gordon McCormick originally came up with the packaging life insurance and mutual funds in the same program. The basis begins with a customer choosing a life insurance and mutual fund policy and use the fund’s proceed to pay the premiums on the life insurance. Any excess from the amount paid on the insurance would become profit. Upon coming up with this idea‚ McCormick contacted
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