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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Financial futures"”.
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Designing a mobile application interface to support mid-career professionals in creating better financial futures
… (Discovery Bank, 2018). One reason is a lack of financial knowledge. If a mobile application could guide individuals to modify their financial habits slightly by spending less and saving more, they could dramatically improve their financial future. When designing visualisation systems such as a …
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Analyzing frequent acquires in emerging markets and futures markets linkage
… chapter examines the information links across futures markets in different nations, using Vector Autoregressive (VAR)-Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) model. The data comprise a large set of commodity and financial futures traded in U.S., U.K., China, Japan, Canada, and Brazil during the …
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Risk management, price discovery and forecasting in the freight futures market
The success or failure of a futures contract is determined by its ability to provide benefits to economic agents, over and above the benefits they derive from the spot market. These benefits are price discovery and risk management through hedging. The extent to which different commodity and …
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Designing feminist pensions policies: a feminist institutional analysis of the interrelationships between structure, agency and gendered pension outcomes in the UK
… loans and property ownership affect women’s financial futures. In the second stage, I investigate how women exercise agency within the structural environment, identifying enabling and constraining factors and arising policy implications. Insights from these two stages are used to model future …
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Strategic Planning Leadership in Illinois Community Colleges: Who is Leading the Process?
… to planners to assess every aspect of their financial futures. So, when it comes to our community colleges, the fabric of higher education in America, who is leading the planning process? The 21st century will continue to unveil new challenges for community colleges. Beset with many …
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A theoretical and empirical analysis of the usage levels of futures contracts
The use of futures contracts has grown enormously in recent years. From 1979 to 1985 the number of futures contracts traded literally doubled. Most of the growth can be attributed to the development of recent contract innovations. Trading in financial futures, alone, increased sixteen fold over …
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Risk in Brazilian Stock and Futures Markets
This thesis examines risk in Brazilian financial markets focusing on two questions: (i) Does volatility in emerging stock markets follow the time patterns observed in more traditional markets? and (ii) Can emerging futures markets in LDC's perform their classic functions of hedge provision and …
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Modernisation or managerialism ? An investigation of the managerial paradigm and local tourism services
… authorities supporting tourism are impacted by financial pressures and pressures for ‘less government’, which are indicative of a ‘managerial paradigm’ which has surrounded public sector management in England.This study has examined the impact of the managerial paradigm on management of tourism …
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Therapeutic Modalities and Educational Approaches in Clergy Stress Reduction
… of the CFP to assist pastors in securing their financial futures by providing economic counsel by a financial analyst. Not unlike other families, lack of adequate economic resources is especially an important source of stress for pastors who are often restricted in the extent to which they can …
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An empirical comparison using both the term structure of interest rates and alternative models in pricing options on 90-day BAB futures
… call options on 90-day Bank Accepted Bill (BAB) futures. Monthly yield curves are generated from cash, futures, swap and interest rate cap data. A number of different methods of analysis are used. These include the use of inferential statistics, non-parametric sign tests and Ordinary Least Square …