What is SWAG investment?
Worksheets - 1 pages - Finance
SWAG investment is an acronym referring to Silver, Wine, Art & Gold, four assets that have always been a spring of fertile investments. The goal of adding SWAG into one's portfolio is to diversify it from usual bonds and stocks, indeed stocks have never really been safe and bonds...
China and foreign direct investments: policies and strategies
Case study - 8 pages - International economy
China experimented 25 years of soviet dogma leading to its isolation from global trade. The turn-around initiated in 1978, along the strategies of four modernisations, introduces a set of policies to attract FDI, but also to control, monitor, and manage them. FDI has been used as a vehicle of...
Forward Exchange and International Financial Investment
Case study - 5 pages - Digital & e-marketing
Example: Imagine you take a vacation in GB and bring € with you, and you convert them as £ as needed. -What is the risk here? Appreciation of the £ ( depreciation of €)=> decreased buying power of your €. -How can you “protect” yourself against it? Convert before you...
South Africa - An investment-friendly economy
Case study - 7 pages - Economy general
This paper is devoted to one of the most advanced, broad-based and productive economy in Africa. This paper is about trying to understand how the Republic of South Africa became "one of the most advanced and productive economies" in Africa. We will pay attention to foreign direct...
Trading and investment opportunities report for Mongolia
Market study - 15 pages - International economy
The objective of this report is to identify potential investment and trading opportunities for Mongolia in the following five countries: Laos, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, and Sabah (Malaysia). The source of data for identifying the country for potential trading and...
Can Gulf investment be a significant driver of economic development in the wider region? - publié le 28/03/2010
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
Countries of the Arab Gulf benefit from the high incomes they get from the mining and the selling of natural oil and gas that the ground offers them. The high incomes, combined with their small population are the reasons that explain why the income per inhabitant is higher than that of the other...
Can Gulf investment be a significant driver of economic development in the wider region?
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
Countries of the Arab Gulf benefit from the high incomes they get from the mining and the selling of natural oil and gas that the ground offers them. Those high incomes, combined with their small population explains why the income per inhabitant is higher than in the other states. According to...
An overview of capital investment
Course material - 16 pages - Business strategy
?Investment decision' is the process whereby resources are allocated in organizations, in anticipation of future gain (as defined in Butler, Davies, Pike and Sharp, 1993). Many people in many organizations spend a great deal of their time in making decisions about capital...
Investment Funds on the German Market
Case study - 16 pages - Finance
Investment funds or private equity have to invest in societies. A society will be selected with several criterias. Depending on objectives, funds will be more or less specialized. For example, venture capital funds, capital development funds, LBO funds are funds that correspond at several...
Country Differences, Cross-Border Trade and Investment Chapter (2-8)
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
History gives enough evidence to show that emerging economies are responsible for the shape of trade and investment in the international market for the last one decade. Emerging economies have continued to relate with each other and engage in free emerging markets. This essay produces an...
Direct investments flows between France and Great Britain
Dissertation - 38 pages - Finance
"We believe that working together, France and Britain can be an even greater force for good in the world of tomorrow and so, if you like, this will be an entente formidable as well?. -Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister. This quotation illustrates the desire that France and Great Britain have, for...
Is multi-management the future of the investment industry (2009)?
Essay - 17 pages - Finance
This report was written after the events of summer 2008 heightened the need to detail the financial environment and the new tools that one could use to improve investments returns in the long term. One of the tools examined is that of multi-management. The report shows that this is a new...
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho - Understanding of Ho critique of investment banking
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Financial disintegration whether the internet bubble, the junk of bond markets, or the heightened leverage on housing market, there are in most cases explained as inevitable implications of market cycles. In other words, this means that what goes up must always come down in the long run. In Ho'...
Investment opportunities in relevance to ICICI
Case study - 74 pages - Finance
In the '90s there has been a decisive shift towards a new wave, the domain of financial services. In the era of the consumer, financial services, which seek to put the consumer in the forefront, have come to stay. Skillful marketing has opened up a wide spectrum of areas where financial...
Applied Investment - Financial and Economic Context
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
Every single investor is interested in maximizing investment returns while simultaneously minimizing risk subjected to the investment. Consequently, investors prefer committing their resources in receptive economic systems free from uncertainties that may hamper their anticipated...
"You are a consultant to a company considering India or China as an attractive opportunity for investment. Citing appropriate examples of other companies' experiences assess the risks involved in investing in ONE of these countries" N/B Choose either Indi
Case study - 6 pages - Management
India is today, considered as the seventh largest, and the world's second most populated country, with 1.1 billions inhabitants. Due to a series of reforms conducted since 1991, India has become the second fastest growing economy with an annual growth rate of around 8% over the last three...
Foreign agricultural investments and human development in Africa
Essay - 2 pages - International economy
In a time where feeding the world has become an urgent problem, highly populated countries 'delocalize' their food production in order to feed their populations. Africa is one of the most attractive targets, a phenomenon enhanced by the fact that African countries are thirsty for foreign...
International Finance and Investment-The Greece Debt Crisis
Case study - 21 pages - Educational studies
Human fallibility ripped off Greece the dignity accorded to its rich history as the economy has been marred with endless conflicts, whose effects spreads beyond its national frontiers. The events revealing themselves in the Greece economy have caught the entire Eurozone in denials and bargains of...
Evolution of Investment Strategies, and Case-Based Decision Theory
Worksheets - 2 pages - Business strategy
Gilboa and Schmeidler's work demonstrates an important distinction between behavior as predicted by Expected Utility Theory and as predicted by Case Based Decision Theory: in the event of a posed similar, familiar decision, people will revert to their memories of past situations to determine...
Evaluate the impact of global recession on international trade and investment with respect to the country of your choice.
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
In the last few years, the International Business has been hit by a global recession. Economists were talking about the current situation of some countries, companies or economic issues more or less close to a situation of recession. These comments were relayed by lots of public media and it...
What are the driving forces of the socially responsible investment?
Case study - 16 pages - Business strategy
The last few years were particularly difficult by the financial world. So many people using the financial markets to invest their savings, their pensions indispensable. However, greed and short-term view of some market players have weakened in many positions. Today, new areas of investment...
Investment banking sector: a look into the future
Case study - 15 pages - Finance
Disappointing economic performances reported by main banking players in the last couple of years are expected to continue in the near future, reflecting an overall stagnating economic environment not only in Europe, but potentially also in U.S. (dependent on fiscal cliff starting in January...
South Africa - An investment-friendly economy - published: 26/02/2012
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
This paper is devoted to one of the most advanced, broad-based and productive economy in Africa. This paper is about trying to understand how the Republic of South Africa became "one of the most advanced and productive economies" in Africa. We will pay attention to foreign direct...
Impact of economic liberalization on the flow of private foreign investment
Case study - 15 pages - International relations
The impact of Economic liberalization on the flow of private foreign investment can have different impacts on specific regions. One common perspective is that economic liberation on the one hand can be beneficial for the developed countries but on the other hand it can actually harm the...
Investment analysis: Sports direct vs. JJB sports
Case study - 2 pages - Services marketing
Figure 1 above summarizes the investor's performance in the company Sport Direct. The company has been able to earn a healthy EPS of 15.73 in the FY 2010. However, the performance of EPS declined in the year 2011. It came down to 14.8. The result of this decline in performance is because the...
Business letter: Explain financial difficulties and justify future projects' investments
Sample letter - 1 pages - Management
I recently discovered that some information about our current financial difficulties has been disclosed, as many executives have started all of a sudden to sell their shares. You imagine how confused I was because this was purely confidential information nobody but me should know. We are facing a...
Why is it that some firms locate their investments close to their markets whilst others appear to have the luxury of a much greater choice of location? - publié le 29/07/2011
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
In a context of financial globalization and outsourcing, the choice of firms' location has become a complex issue. Indeed, some companies prefer to locate their investments close to their markets whereas others make the choice to establish themselves in the most appropriate country where...
Why is it that some firms locate their investments close to their markets whilst others appear to have the luxury of a much greater choice of location?
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
In a context of financial globalization and outsourcing, the choice of firms' location has become a complex issue. Indeed, some companies prefer to locate their investments close to their markets whereas others make the choice to establish themselves in the most appropriate country where...
Why ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) is good for America?
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, abbreviated “ARRA”, is a stimulus bill which was proposed and passed by President Barack Obama and the 111th Congress of the United States exactly one year ago. What better way to examine the effectiveness of ARRA than giving it a...
Financial analysis database system for investment decision
Tutorials/exercises - 20 pages - Computer science
The project titled “Financial Analysis Database System for Investment Decision” is designed using Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2005 as front end and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as back end which works in .Net framework version 2.0. The coding language used is C# .Net The objective...
