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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Goldman Sachs"”.
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Roll related return in the S&P GSCI Excess Return Index
Standard & Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity IndexTM (S&P GSCI) is the largest tradable commodity index fund in the world with more than $80 billion in S&P GSCI-related investments. Investors have been led to believe that investing in the S&P GSCI during periods of rising commodity prices will be …
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Stimulating Nigeria's emerging real estate markets : investment opportunities through the public sector
In its Global Economics Paper Nc.134, the Goldman Sachs Economics Group highlights the West African country of Nigeria as having the potential to be among the next generation of emerging markets around the world the next eleven (N-11) - after their much publicized BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, …
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On commodity trading strategies: momentum, term structure, maturity, indexation
… the momentum parameterized Standard & Poor's Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (S&P- GSCI former GSCI) and Dow-Jones UBS Commodity Index (DJ-UBSCI former DJ-AIGCI) yield 0.46 and 0.9 times higher returns than the traditional S&P-GSCI and DJ-UBSCI respectively. The term structure parameterized …
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Methodology for appraisal of dynamic e-commerce business models
… e-commerce is growing very rapidly. According to Goldman Sachs Investment Research [May 2000], the expected worldwide gross value of commerce transactions being done online is to grow to 7.6 trillion by 2005 from 225 billion in 1999. One of the most significant determinants of online business …
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Methodology for appraisal of dynamic e-commerce business models
… e-commerce is growing very rapidly. According to Goldman Sachs Investment Research [May 2000], the expected worldwide gross value of commerce transactions being done online is to grow to 7.6 trillion by 2005 from 225 billion in 1999. One of the most significant determinants of online business …
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Crude Oil and Crude Oil Derivatives Transactions by Oil and Gas Producers.
… with previous studies, this study applies the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) methodology to measure the risk and return profile of crude oil. The results show that crude oil is negatively correlated with stocks so adding crude oil into a portfolio with equities can provide significant …
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Turning around investment banks during the financial crisis : surviving apart from government bailouts
… interviews revealed that one bank in particular, Goldman Sachs, took three steps that align with 'levers' found to be statistically significant in turning around financially distressed firms. It, 1) identified the root cause of the problem before taking a course of action; 2) took a growth …
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A model to assess organisational information privacy maturity against the Protection of Personal Information Act
… for some high-profile breaches including Goldman Sachs, Boeing, AT&T, EBay, AOL, American Express and Apple to name a few. One report estimates that 868,045,823 records have been breached from 4,347 data breaches made public since 2005 (Privacy Rights Clearing House, 2013). The theft of …
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Some Models for Time Series of Counts
… of the Ericsson stock, the return times of Goldman Sachs Group stock prices, the number of road crashes in Schiphol, the frequencies of occurrences of gold particles, the incidences of polio in the US and the number of presentations of asthma in an Australian hospital. An array of graphical …
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BRICS: strategies of persuasion
… distinguished it simply as a slogan designed by Goldman Sachs have failed to discern it for the rhetorical, strategic entity that it is. This dissertation focuses on BRICS’ essence and intent, its strategic communications. It analyses BRICS’ narrative and scenario, examining its rhetorical …
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A company is a company because of other people: corporate social responsibility and the constitution
… to share this between 25 million people; whereas Goldman Sachs, an investment firm ranking in annual profits of 2.2 billion dollars, shares these among 161 partners. "That's the world we're living in now," she says." It is clearly necessary to put in place effective preventative protection …
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Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 led to extraordinary government intervention in firms and markets. The scope and depth of government action rivaled that of the Great Depression. Many traded markets experienced dramatic declines in liquidity leading to the existence of conditions normally assumed …