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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Investment fund"”.
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De positie van de bewaarder onder Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD)
… gebruik van kunnen gaan maken? De Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is een Europese richtlijn die tot doel heeft bescherming van investeerders en functionele bescherming van de kapitaalmarkt. Op 22 juli 2013 diende de AIFMD in nationale wetgeving te zijn geïmplementeerd. In …
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Liquid real estate investment fund in Latin America : analysis of worldwide best practices and portfolio proposal
… as real estate increasingly becomes a global investment option, investors around the world turn their attention to real estate emerging markets, such as the Latin American one, looking for i) attractive returns, ii) diversification and iii) the option of liquidity. The latter characteristic, …
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The Relationship between Analyst Forecasts, Investment Fund Flows and Market Returns = Elemzői előrejelzések, befektetési alapok pénzáramlása és a részvénypiaci hozamok kapcsolata. A feltörekvő európai részvénypiac vizsgálata
… and showed the value of analyst opinion and fund flow data in understanding returns through the example of Emerging European equity markets. With wider-spread availability of the analyst opinion and fund flow data, we hope more academic research would cover the microstructure of the cash …
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Assessing the feasibility of establishing a publicly traded global real estate fund domiciled in the Cayman Islands
… creating a publicly traded, synthetic REIT-type investment fund for the purpose of investing in a portfolio of international real estate assets. The investment strategy is driven by both an increasing supply of international real estate opportunities and an increasing demand for international …
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Data to information to text summaries of financial data
… pipeline. This research looks at the auditing of Investment Fund Management, of which a specific procedure is the comparison of two time series (one of the fund being tested and another of the benchmark it is supposed to follow) to identify potential misstatements in the investment fund. We solve …
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Giving a voice to the poor : rural telephones and economic development in Peru
… Government created the Telecommunications Investment Fund - FITEL, a fund aimed at providing subsidies to the private sector so that they would provide telecommunication services to remote and poor communities. FITEL's rural public telephone projects have had tremendous impacts on isolated …
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Invisible helping hands : how can capital markets access the poor and promote entrepreneurial spirits? : an analysis of international microfinance investment potential and a proposal for securitization in a microfinance global pool
… financial markets by reviewing the present funding condition of MFIs. It concludes that purely commercially based funding from capital markets is minimal except for some of the best managed MFIs. A huge gap exists between most other MFIs and international capital markets. Second, this palper …
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Investing in community : Canadian junior mining companies, corporate social responsibility, and the communication gap
… responsibility (CSR) and specifically community investment activities in developing countries. I sought to investigate what community investment initiatives a sample of Canadian junior exploration companies are conducting and the root causes for a possible CSR communication gap or “reporting …
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An investigation into the relationship between a firm's working capital management and its profitability: A case study of the Namibian state-owned commercial institutions
… Namibia National Reinsurance Corporation; Road Fund Administration; Environmental Investment fund; MVA, and Games Products Trust Fund. These institutions had a combined total of 125 finance employees countrywide and a questionnaire survey was administered to all of them via e-mail. The findings …
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An investigation into the differences of asset allocation strategies of the government institutions pension fund and Caprocorn asset management company
… between the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) and Capricorn Asset Management Company, focusing on the strategies used when allocating investors’ funds among various asset classes. The study also compares the similarities and differences between the two investment firms regarding …
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Raising a renewable energy-focused private equity fund denominated in foreign currencies
… growth during the past decade. Private equity funds focused on different sectors and stages and denominated in different currencies are competing for limited investment opportunities. To succeed in the ultracompetitive environment, private equity firms need to demonstrate the ability to raise …
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A system to predict the S&P 500 using a bio-inspired algorithm
… obtained will form the basis of a commercial investment fund. It should be noted that my algorithm uses financial data of the past 60-days, and as such would not be able to predict rapid market changes such as a stock market crash.
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Managing welfare improvement for urban poor: a case study from Bangkok, Thailand
… for their community. They stated that the Social Investment Fund would be able to alleviate their poverty if the committees extended the project and increased the amount of the loans. The results of the semi-structured interviews and observations showed that the committee members are the social …
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Incorporating property characteristics and capital market conditions in optimizing commercial real estate portfolios
… and Rossen Valkanov explored a new approach that fundamentally improves the portfolio optimization methodology. They modeled the portfolio weight in each asset as a function of the asset's characteristics and the associated capital market conditions. The coefficients of this function are found by …
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Quantitative Analysis of Commodity Markets, Household Vulnerability, and Learning Outcomes
… specifically focusing on student-managed investment funds. To assess the changes in the obtained technical and practical skills, we combine knowledge tests with grading rubrics. As part of practical skills, we consider commodity market analysis, critical thinking, informed decision-making, …
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Nature conservation in changing socio-political conditions at Londolozi Private Game Reserve
… Corporation Africa (CC Africa) Rural Investment Fund. These projects, although more obvious to the wider community outside the reserve, were inefficient and wasted money in some cases. In 2007, Londolozi returned to focussing on individual rural staff members rather than on …
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Investavimo į investicinius fondus galimybių analizė /
The bachelor‘s thesis aims to explore investments in mutual funds. The thesis consists of two parts: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part of thesis is split into two parts. The first theoretical part analysed mutual funds. Lithuanian and foreign scientific literature revealed evolution, …
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Restructuraciones, cambios de control, rol de fondos distress y la creación y destrucción de valor
… esos procesos. Se analiza el caso del fondo ESL Investments, que logra una toma de control a partir del proceso de reorganización de la firma Kmart, y luego adquiere a la cadena de tiendas Sears. En este caso se da tanto creación como destrucción de valor a lo largo del tiempo.
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Anlagestrategie Behavioral Finance : die Bedeutung verhaltensorientierter Anlagestrategien in der amerikanischen und deutschen Fondsindustrie
… of Behavioral Finance theory in the investment fund industry. In a first step the author identifies the most prominent Behavioral Finance based investment strategies according to academic literature. Then, based on regression analysis, the author examines the extent to which German …
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Crossing the Energy Efficiency Chasm: An Assessment of the Barriers to Institutional Investment at Scale
… to be significant, would be to tap into the vast funds under management by institutional investors who are required to invest those funds to optimise its monetary return, taking into account the level of risk. The aim of the research is to identify the enabling conditions that would need to exist …