Financial Innovation Essay: High Frequency Trading and its social impacts
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
A Financial Times article argues that HFT is beneficial for society, and that banning HFT from use would increase volatility. I agree with this point of view, as algorithms democratized trading by allowing a direct access to the markets and decreasing the costs of the transactions. Also,...
Technology Industry in India
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
To begin with, we will talk about the history of India but without going too far back in time because what we are interested in is the part of the history that still has a significative impact on the current socio-economic situation which leads the Technology Industry in India including IT...
Business Plan for a Coffee Shop in Morocco - Agora Coffee Shop
Business plan - 7 pages - Business strategy
The business we propose is called 'AGORA Coffee Shop'. In our opinion, a coffee shop is not only a place of entertainment, it can also be a crossroad where people (students, professors, professionals, ...) can share ideas or debate on actual phenomenons. Therefore, inside the coffee we...
VRIO Analysis - Airbus
Case study - 4 pages - International marketing
Airbus is one of the largest aviation companies globally, as well as at the European level. Finally, it is the world's second-largest group in the aeronautics sector in 2021. The health crisis has had a huge impact on the sector as well as the group's results. Indeed, in 2019, the...
Financial analysis - Tesla
Financial analysis - 3 pages - Automotive marketing
Founded in 2003, Tesla Motor is an American company that designs electric cars. Currently headed by the very charismatic Elon Musk, the automaker has set up its headquarters in Palo Alto, in the very heart of Silicon Valley, in the United States. By offering models of electric cars that are both...
Porter's Five Forces - Qatar Airways
Case study - 6 pages - Tourism marketing
Qatar Airways is the national airline of the State of Qatar. It is one of the best airlines in the world, according to several awards won for several years in a row. The companies head office is located in Doha, Qatar, which, in just a few years, has become a veritable air hub for the five...
How does the measures taken by Erdogan these last two decades impact the lira's exchange rate nowadays?
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
Turkey began the new millennium in 2000 with the most severe economic crisis of its history. This crisis, which followed the currency crisis of 1994, had a strong impact on the Turkish financial system, as it led to a fall in capital inflows coming from foreign investors. This striking event is...
SWOT Analysis - Qatar Airways
Case study - 4 pages - Tourism marketing
Qatar Airways is the flag carrier of the State of Qatar in the Middle East. The company is known to be one of the best airlines in the world in terms of safety, comfort, image. Its main air hub is located in Doha, Qatar, and the company operates flights all over the world, sometimes via...
Entrepreneurship: How to Run a Market Study
Practical guide - 4 pages - Startup, entrepreneurship
Creating any company requires a market study done by entrepreneurs for a better understanding of the market they are willing to enter. This understanding of the market will give entrepreneurs the ability to easily convince their future investors. The efficiency of a market study is based on its...
Investor behavior towards mutual funds with special reference to Reliance Capital Assets Management Ltd
Tutorials/exercises - 48 pages - Finance
The economy of a country is highly influenced by the Financial System of the country. The Indian Financial System has been broadly divided into two segments: the organized and the unorganized segments. An investor has a wide array of investment avenues available. Economic well being in the...
Foreign institutional investors and the Indian capital market
Dissertation - 61 pages - Finance
Foreign investment refers to investments made by the residents of a country in the financial assets and production processes of another country. After the opening up of the borders for capital movement, these investments have grown in leaps and bounds. The effect of foreign...
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs): Reactions of Developed Countries
Dissertation - 70 pages - Finance
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have attracted increasing attention during the last few years, mainly due to their intervention in the rescue of the American and European financial systems. This intervention came at a time when the other financial systems were in a financial and economic turmoil....
An investigation in to the problems with corporate pension funds
Essay - 12 pages - Finance
Beginning with the New Deal, efforts to secure the social and economic prosperity of employees after retirement have been developed. This process has lead to the evolution of the current system of corporate pension funds. Although millions of American workers invest in these funds each year, few...
Estimating market risk premium using Markov switching : Tunisian Case
Dissertation - 97 pages - Finance
The general increase in volatility of the …nancial markets can be partly explained by the growing uncertainly of the economic environment. It is, on the other hand, a reflection of the growing efficiency and integration of the financial markets allow the almostinstantaneous move of capital...
The legal process of entering into a joint venture with the Cuban water utility company
Essay - 16 pages - International law
This paper examines the legal process of entering into a joint venture with the Cuban public water system through a joint venture in a Post-Fidel Castro Cuba. Although Fidel is no longer at the helm, the Cuban Communist party is still in power. Since Cuba has a state planned economy, we place...
The core-satellite model revisited, tracking error control, ETF's and satellites possibilities
Essay - 10 pages - Management
A core-satellite management consist in having a core portfolio made up of passive management vehicles (index funds, ETFs, etc.) with low management fees, and separately one, or several, very active satellites that are made up of funds with a strong tracking error, or even funds with no constraint...
The modern portfolio theory
Essay - 7 pages - Services marketing
The aim of the Modern Portfolio Theory is to provide to a portfolio owner the tools necessary to implement an efficient and sustainable strategy focusing on minimizing the risk. According to this theory, risk is supposed to be reduced through the choice of a diversified portfolio. In fact,...
How to do Business with the Czech Republic? The case of beer markets
Thesis - 25 pages - Business strategy
Within the framework of the course “International Trade and Business Challenges”, our professor Miss Chau asked us to analyze and to develop a strategy to enter a specific sector of one of the BRIC countries and the 8+2 new EU members. In this context, we decided to tackle the beer...
The impact of foreign institutional investors on the Mumbai (Bombay) Stock Exchange: A case study
Case study - 47 pages - Finance
To aid foreign private capital flows in form of Foreign Institutional Investors developing countries were advised by World Bank to develop their stock markets. It was suggested that these investments would help the stock markets directly through widening investor foundation and indirectly...
Analysis of risk and return of mutual fund schemes at Standard Chartered Mutual Funds
Dissertation - 34 pages - Finance
Balancing of funds which includes issuing & collecting of funds in any economy is very important. There are many financial products in india, not only for balancing but also to provide liquidity for ideal capital, such as bank deposits, NSS savings, securities, insurance etc., which have some...
Mutual funds in India
Thesis - 41 pages - Finance
A Mutual Fund is a trust that pools the savings of a number of investors who share a common financial goal. The money thus collected is then invested in capital market instruments such as shares, debentures and other securities. The income earned through these investments and the capital...
Insurance
Dissertation - 28 pages - Finance
Life insurance is a necessity and not an investment. There is no substitute for life cover, none whatsoever, it is the only mean of providing security to your near and dear ones against your untimely death or to yourself against your old age. The yield on investment is of no...
Capital budgeting: India
Case study - 35 pages - Economy general
An efficient allocation of capital is the most important financial function in modern times. It involves decision to commit firm's funds to long-term assets. Such decisions are tend to determine the value of company/firm by influencing its growth, profitability & risk. Investment...
Portfolio management
Case study - 42 pages - Finance
The financial market plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country by facilitating the allocation of scarce resources. The allocation function of financial market essentially involves the allocation of resources. One of the proper ways of the allocation of resources is...
Mutual funds
Dissertation - 47 pages - Finance
A Mutual Fund is the ideal investment vehicle for today's complex and modern financial scenario. Markets for equity shares, bonds, and other fixed instruments. Price changes in these are driven by global events occurring in faraway places. A typical individual is unlikely to have the...
Awareness about Prudential ICICI mutual funds among investors
Case study - 49 pages - Finance
A Mutual Fund is a trust that pools the savings from a number of investors who share a common financial goal. The money thus collected is then invested in capital market instruments such as shares, debentures and other securities. Since the stated investment objectives of a mutual fund...
General awareness about mutual funds
Dissertation - 56 pages - Finance
The concept of ‘Mutual Funds' is to make different investment avenues available to investors. Mutual funds also offer good investment opportunities to the investors. Like all investments, they carry certain risks. The investors should compare the risks and expected...
A study into mutual funds
Thesis - 15 pages - Finance
The mutual fund industry is a lot like the film star of the finance business. Though it is perhaps the smallest segment of the industry, it is also the most glamorous - in that it is a young industry where there are changes in the rules of the game everyday, and there are constant shifts and...
Responsibility accounting and evaluation of divisional performance
Presentation - 36 pages - Management
This presentation will start with a comparison between centralization and decentralization. From there it will go into a look at the benefits and costs of a decentralized organization before moving onto responsibility accounting along with control and performance evaluations. it will then examine...
A study of behavioral finance in the Indian stock exchange
Case study - 32 pages - Finance
Much of economic and financial theory is based on the notion that individuals act rationally and consider all available information in the decision-making process. However, researchers have uncovered a surprisingly large amount of evidence that this is frequently not the case. Peter L. Bernstein...
