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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Risk Diversification"”.
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Assessing the Impact of Financial Literacy and Digital Capability on the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Ghana
… such as inflation, insurance, interest rates, risk diversification, investment and debt management on the performance of SMEs in the areas of sales, employment and profitability. Secondly, the effect financial behaviour construct using variables such as savings (SB), risk management (RMB), …
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Private equity as an asset class in an institutional portfolio: a South African perspective
… with respect to its total expected returns, risk diversification, economic upliftment, capital appreciation and liabilities matching.
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Factors influencing superior returns achieved through mergers & acquisitions of corporate spin-outs in the life sciences
… business environment as an alternate source of risk diversification and value creation for both the parent and external investors. Once established, corporate spin-outs are often perceived to be of higher quality than their counterparts in the industry; previous studies have shown that they tend …
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Commercial real estate conduit loan : its benefits and costs from the borrowers' and the lenders' perspectives
… the conduit brings liquidation, information risk diversification, buy-buck option of tailored loans and efficiency from specialization in substitution for underutilization of value information, adverse selection problem, price stability, flexibility and underwriting expertise which …
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Urbanisation and the environment in Namibia : policy implications of the rural-urban relationship
… in both rural and urban areas as a mechanism of risk diversification and survival. Mere survival, as embodied in circular migration in Namibia, does not suggest a process which can attain economic, social and biophysical sustainability. The implication is that the longer the conditions of …
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Sustainable construction industry strategies in South Africa: Specialization vs Diversification
… Engineering industry is characterized by high risks, but equally high returns. The dynamics and complexities of this industry and its cycles, make it an extremely volatile and difficult industry to operate within. This is evident in the number of construction companies currently struggling to …
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Impact of oil prices on stock market performance
… policies, investors and portfolio managers in risk diversification relating to decision-making and investment strategies. The study investigates the impact of oil prices on stock market performance in ten countries, including Canada. The volatility in oil prices and the accompanying swings in …
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A Choice Experiment Study of Household Investor Preferences for Renewable Energy Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Ghana
… the three concepts tested, it was found that risk diversification is the least understood concept, while compound interest was the easiest to score. Secondly, a gender gap in financial literacy is not found as heavily documented in the financial literacy literature.<br/><br/>Overall, this …
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Essays On The Applications Of Network Analysis To The Reinsurance Market
… network position and its performance measured by risk adjusted return on assets and risk adjusted return on equity. I also analyze the resilience of the reinsurance network against possible contagion risk by simulating economic impacts resulting from failures of one or more strategically networked …
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Strategic Management of Crises in Small and Medium Businesses
… Benchmarking, and Stakeholder Theory, as well as Risk Diversification and Insurance, but with a strong focus on small and medium enterprises. The primary aim of the research was to develop a Crisis Management Model that can be utilised by small and medium enterprises to minimise the risk …
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Essays on Migration, Remittance and Households Consumption, Production and Investment Decision: Evidence from Bangladesh
… conditional logit estimation to study the risk diversification motive of migration using household level data from Bangladesh. The household as a whole takes migration decisions to maximize expected utility. Risk-averse household allocates its members to rural agricultural, urban formal or …
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Essays on Financial Market Interdependence
This thesis aims at investigating the risk spillover and correlations among national stock markets, and the structure of dependence between stocks and commodity futures. It consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 briefly reviews the literature background of financial market interdependence and …
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Reinsurance and financial performance of short term insurance companies in South Africa
… particularly concerned about their cash flow, risk and returns to ascertain the financial performance of the business. In the insurance industry, risk management and financial performance goes hand-in-hand. In order for the short-term insurance industry in South Africa to thrive, the right risk …
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Essays on integration vs. segmentation of financial markets
… credit more aggressively, and, as a result, riskier borrowers receive more credit. Overall, my results highlight negative consequences of the uniformity of federal policy in mortgage markets by showing how it can lead to distorted bank lending and reduce efficiency of credit allocation across …
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Uncertainty in Debt Finance: Reconceptualising Material Adverse Change Clauses
… (“M&A”) deals, include special contractual risk allocation provisions, called Material Adverse Change/Effect (“MAC”) clauses. Despite increasing popularity, vague drafting and the lack of case law have made the application and construction of MAC clauses extremely ambiguous and uncertain. …