A Research On Investment Portfolio Project

As noted in Wikipedia Oracle is headquartered in Redwood, California. It was founded in 1977 and is the world's third largest soft wear developer in sales. According to Yahoo Finance Oracle is a multi-faceted operation. Oracle provides a vast amount of services for the internet and computer. It provides cloud applications, IT consulting services, licenses middleware software which includes database and database management. It has 115,000 full time employees and is run by co-founder, CEO Larry Ellison who has been the only CEO of the company since it's inception. Also noted in Wikipedia he is the top paid CEO in the world. In 2013 Oracle

In this portfolio it will show a range of work that was completed in English 111. You will find a table of contents so you can locate each piece of work easily. There will be a sample of a writing from my religion class that I have previously taken. This writing is a research paper. The reason I chose this sample of writing is because research papers is not one of my strongest papers that I can complete but, this was an easier research paper because of the topic that it was on and I could use any source I wanted to as long as it was not Wikipedia. Also, you will find samples of each writing assignment that was completed in this course: Narration Essay, Comparison/Contrast Essay, and Argumentative Research Essay, along with some revisions

Portfolio and project management are similar and sometimes thought of as being one another. Between the project and portfolio management the goals and the intended strategic action is similar. The process between the portfolio management includes and involves the resources that list a process, which includes the evaluation, selection, and prioritization. Portfolio management and strategic management assist with the organizations missions and goals. These lay out the objective in the continuous planning and monitoring that assist with reaching the goals.

In this portfolio I had several challenges throughout revising the papers. I have completely revised my research paper, and am still working on my other papers. I have greatly improved since the start of the school year, and am extremely confident in my abilities to correctly write a paper.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO Liautaud Graduate School of Business Department of Finance Professor Hsiu-lang Chen 1 Practice Problem I

     The report will give an overview of each company, an explanation of what type of companies we are analyzing, the purpose of each company in terms of its goals and objectives, the

From September 3rd, 2015 to October 28th, 2015, our group was given the opportunity to manage an investment portfolio, with the goal of maximizing the value of the portfolio through acquiring, holding, and selling stock. The beginning cash balance of the portfolio was $100,000, and our group had the ability to make up to 500 trades. During this time period, our group made 20 stock purchases and sold stock twice. At the close of business on October 28, 2015, the value of our group’s portfolio increased from $100,000 to $106,785.33, yielding a return of  6.78% (((106785.33/100,000)-1) x 100)). In comparison to the S&P 500 returned at 7.16% and the Dow Jones having a return of 8.65% (Yahoo).

According to the CAPM model:R_i=α+βR_m+ε, α represent the abnormal return gained by the portfolio. If the market is efficiency, the α has to be zero.

Oracle Corporation is a technology company that supplies software for the use of information management. They develop, manufacture, market and distribute computer software that helps other corporations manage their data so they can better grow and prosper.

Polaris Securities Co. Ltd has experienced substantial growth in the countries of Taiwan and Hong Kong. This document will review a case created around Polaris Securities and the strategies behind its success. This review will contain a synopsis of the case, a brief history of the company as well as identify some key issues in the terms of generic strategies that the company used. The document will define the problem with their strategy and what would or would not work accordingly. An analysis of Porter’s five forces against the strategy employed by Polaris will also be reviewed. Finally, a comparison of the company’s competitors will be completed and a summary of the case conclusions.

Researching stock certificates has led to finding various useful pieces of information that will aid this study. Parts of the information found were Internet sourced, however it has proven difficult to find useful information, as several sites have covered the same information. The best source of information was taken from two paperback books and an eBook.

Oracle is the largest business software and hardware company in the world, with more than 3lakh customers and supports these customers in more than 145 countries. Oracle is the unchallenged leader in Financial Services, with an integrated, best in class, end - to - end solution of intelligent software and powerful hardware

Oracle is a US based multinational computer technology corporation which develops and markets computer hardware and software products. Oracle develop tools for database development, Enterprise System Software and many other tools. Oracle is the second largest software corporation in terms of their revenue after Microsoft. Larry Ellison is the co-founder of Oracle Corporation with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories. Later on they changed the name to Relational Software Inc in the year 1979 by developing some DBMS functionalities to the former one. Slowly they rename it to Oracle in the year 1995. He also served as CEO of Oracle till mid of September 2014.

Oracle is the largest business software and hardware company in the world, with more than 3lakh customers and supports these customers in more than 145 countries. Oracle is the unchallenged leader in Financial Services, with an integrated, best in class, end - to - end solution of intelligent software and powerful hardware designed to meet every financial service needed. Oracle organisation is satisfies ethical and legal issues with respect to IITP code of conduct and the New Zealand government legislation.

The Equity Index Fund (GEQZX) is a Biblically Responsible Investment (BRI) fund created by GuideStone Funds. The objective stated in the prospectus is to gain the same performance as the S&P 500 Index by investing in the same components. The screening process is to recreate the S&P 500 by investing in the same assets which include 486 different holdings. All of the companies in the mutual fund will have the same weight as they do in the index it is following. The mutual fund does maintain some cash with a 2% allocation for liquidity purposes. The mutual fund has shared close returns. The returns are within 1% of the benchmark, S&P 500, as shown in Figure 1 acquired from GuideStone’s website. There are two share classes which are Investor and Institutional. To invest in the Investor Class shares a minimum initial investment of $1,000 is required. Subsequent investments must be at least $100. The management fee is 0.10%. The gross expense ratio is 0.43%. The net expense ratio is 0.42%. There is no 12 b-1, Redemption fees, or Sales Charge. The portfolio turnovers for each year between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2015 were 4%, 3%, 4%, 5%, and 6% respectively. The fund’s sector allocation is 12.8% Consumer Discretionary, 8.8% Consumer Staples, 7.8% Energy, 16.6% Financial Services, 12.6% Health Care, 10.7% Industrials, 20.8% Technology, 3% Materials, 3.1% Telecommunications, and 3.8%