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Showing 1 to 20 of 871 for “"Investing"”.
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Strategic pension fund investing
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Investing For Your Future: Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Investing Behavior
… of Behavior Change was used to assess change in investing behavior among Investing For Your Future home-study course participants. The goal of Investing For Your Future is to help people improve their personal finance behaviors leading to financial security in later life. On average, after course …
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Investing in the Czech Republic
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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The Cross-Section of Investing Skill
Building on insights from the economics of superstars, I develop an efficient method for estimating the skill of mutual fund managers. Outliers are especially helpful for disentangling skill from luck when I explicitly model the cross-sectional distribution of managerial skill using a flexible and …
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Essays on commodity investing and volatility risk
… essays that investigate issues in commodity investing and volatility risk in commodity futures markets. The first essay evaluates the usefulness of commodities in a portfolio by examining multiple commodity instrument tools and by controlling for estimation error. Using data from three …
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Essays in Asset Management: Long Horizon Investing
… documents their early adoption of equity investing in the 1930s and their more recent shift into alternative assets from the 1980s. The essay then considers whether endowments famed for their long horizon exploit this advantage to invest countercyclically during periods of market …
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Investing in REITs: A value-based approach
… to the existing body of knowledge on value investing theory through portfolio selection based on P/NAV, P/E, P/CF and DY ratio analysis. The holding period returns of the respective value-based portfolios are compared to their growth-based counterparts for an examination of relative …
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The economics of investing in green buildings
This thesis discusses economics of green buildings. The need to reduce greenhouse gases emissions became clear. Buildings account for a large part of the greenhouse gases emissions, changing the atmosphere's composition. Climate changes will be unevenly distributed between regions; in early stages …
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Ghost towers : distressed condominium investing in Atlanta
… there are a number of different strategies for investing in bulk condos and their underlying debt. One of the hardest hit markets is Atlanta, Georgia, which is the focus of this paper. Each of these strategies is contingent on the type and expertise level of the individual investor, but there …
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Value versus glamour investing : a South African case
… a sub-style of growth, as a comparative to value investing. This study aims to prove which style, value or glamour, outperforms the other thereby confirming or denying the presence of an international phenomenon in a South African context. This study replicates a two-variable method that was …
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Sustainable Investing - Does ESG Induce a Virtuous Circle?
A környezeti, társadalmi és gazdasági rendszerek fenntarthatóságának szavatolása jelentős kihívás elé állítja korunk társadalmát. A klímaváltozás mérséklésére 2016-ban megkötött párizsi egyezmény vagy az ENSZ által tágabban értelmezett környezeti és társadalmi feszültségek kezelésére 2015-ben …
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Lasting social impact : Community Development Venture Capital investing
Community Development Venture Capital Funds (CDVC) funds are an emerging group of Community Development Financial Institutions, that make equity investments in businesses in economically distressed areas. As equity investors, CDVC funds, like mainstream VC funds, exit investments to generate …
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Investing in French real estate : an American perspective
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.
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Using Computers to Aid in Successful Trading and Investing
<p>In today’s world of high frequency trading and volatile markets, it is next to impossible for the average investor to make good decisions about where to put their money and for how long. There is a multitude of “hype” from many different directions including, television, magazine ads, internet …
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Firms’ financial flexibility and the profitability of style investing
… of three of the most commonly used style investing strategies. They are the value-growth trading strategy (going long on stocks with high Book-to-Market ratio and short on stocks with low Book-to-Market ratio), the momentum trading strategy (going long on stocks that have performed well …
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The development of impact investing and implications for China
In recent years, impact investing has been developing rapidly and attracting broader attention. According to the JP Morgan and GIIN Annual Impact Investor Survey, the number of global impact investors increased approximately eightfold between 1995 and 2015. While still facing challenges and …
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Opportunities and challenges of investing in Indian real estate
… a study of the opportunities and challenges of investing in one emerging market, India. With a population of over 1 billion, India has been a major beneficiary of the "Globalization of Real Estate". This thesis identifies the opportunities in India that have caused global capital to flow into …
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Harnessing External Data in Public and Private Market Investing
… an increasingly central role in fundamental investing. This development has been driven by growing awareness of the ways in which external data can be leveraged to create unique insights and support decision-making across the investment lifecycle. Two important trends have undergirded this …
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Venture investing and city development : a look at Singapore
The dual trends of globalization and technologization in the capital markets have altered the strategies of city states that wish to be financial/regional economic centers. This thesis examines venture finance in detail and looks at the case of Singapore repositioning itself as the center of …
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