PERSONAL INVESTMENT PLANNING FOR THE MALAYSIAN INVESTOR CONTENTS Part 1 - Understanding Investments What is an investment? Types of investments Part II - Financial Planning Assess your own financial situation Diversify your investments Your risk profile Rational thinking Monitor your investments Do ’s and don ’t of investing wisely Be mindful of some trading rules Part 1 - Understanding Investments What is an investment? Many of us think of interest-bearing deposits or fixed deposits when we
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1.What were the possible synergies and forces propelling the merger between P&G and Gillette—as well as the history of other takeover attempts for Gillette? Both P & G and Gillette were established in the early 1900’s and served similar purposes. Gillette and P & G are both strong‚ stable companies and could make an even stronger company. One of the propellers causing the companies to merge was that Gillette sold to men while P & G focused on women in the industry. These companies sell similar
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Qualitycorp for $30 per share and deposit initial margin of 50%. The next day Qualitycorp’s price drops to $25 per share. What is your actual margin? A) 50% B) 40% C) 33% D) 60% E) 25% Answer: B Difficulty: Moderate Rationale: AM = [300 ($25) - .5 (300) ($30)] / [300 ($25)] = .40 30. Assume that you purchased 200 shares of Super Performing mutual fund at a net asset value of $21 per share.
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Chapter 2 Markets and Transactions T Outline Learning Goals I. Securities Markets A) Types of Securities Markets 1. The Primary Market a. Going Public: The IPO Process b. The Investment Banker’s Role 2. Secondary Markets B) Organized Securities Exchanges 1. The New York Stock Exchange a. Trading Activity b. Listing Policies 2. The American Stock Exchange 3. Regional Stock Exchanges 4. Options Exchanges 5. Futures Exchanges C) The Over-the-Counter Market 1. New Issues and Secondary Distributions 2
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: An Investment Itself? “Race is a cultural construct‚ but one with deadly social causes and consequences” (Lipsitz 2). In his book‚ The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics‚ George Lipsitz argues that it is in the best interest of white Americans to “invest in whiteness‚ to remain true to an identity that provides them with resources‚ power‚ and opportunity (Lipsitz vii).” Lipsitz’s book gives a substantial
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INVESTMENT APPRAISAL Introduction The government undertakes a variety of activities. They are responsible for setting macroeconomic policy; they seek to promote equity by aiding the poor and the disadvantaged and they provide a variety of services‚ such as education‚ health Care‚ defense‚ infrastructure‚ police and postal services. Many of these activities involve large investments. Recent developments such as expanding the N3 Network infrastructure in preparation for the GP – Led health
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Personal Learning Experience 3 Background of chosen business For the purpose of investment appraisal assignment we have chosen a fancy furniture business in which we have selected three items which we are going to sell in our business. As UK is the market where people use to decorate their home by antiques and fancy products our three selling items includes fancy mirror‚ Sofa/chair and centre table. In this investment proposal we do have to import these selling items for the reason of approval of
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Investment Analysis Tool [IAT] Instruction This memo is intended as a help manual for users of the Investment Analysis Tool. It is my hope that this document will be sufficient to guide a new user through the functions of the IAT and even to feel comfortable enough to create new ways in which to use it for hospital investment decisions. For ease of use‚ the memo is divided into the following sections: I. Overview of Investment Analysis Tool II. Instructions III. Potential
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Summary This case talks about an American mutual fund company that was facing problems ·with its CRM system. Sales agents felt that they derived little value from it and also it was time consuming. The company is investigating if it could solve this problem by introducing mobile CRM to be accessed wirelessly on blackberry devices. But what are the key factors that have contributed to the success of mobile CRM initiative at Evergreen? Evergreen investments’ background Evergreen investments are the
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Table of contents: Page no. 1. Introduction 1 2. Investment appraisal 2 3. Payback method 3 4. Present value (PV)‚ future value (FV) and net present value (NPV) 5 5. Project 1 6 6. Comparing projects 11 7. Conclusion 12 8. References 13 9. Bibliography 14 Introduction: In 21st century business is much more developed and competitive as well with the presence of so many competitors
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