A Research Study On Investment Products

The objective of the project was to trade on a Market Simulation “STOCK TRACK”, from 2/13 to 4/20. We were supposed to try to trade different types of instruments in order to gain more knowledge about they are trade in the real world; and how a strategy which seems good can be overturned by the market circumstances.

We thank Piet Eichholtz, Pat Hendershott, Charles Ward, two anonymous referees, and participants at the Maastricht-Cambridge Property Investment Symposium for valuable comments and suggestions. We also thank Elvan Aktas for valuable research assistance and Piet Eichholtz and Han Op 't Veld of Global Property Research for assistance with the data. Additionally, we thank the Real Estate Research Institute for

Investment analysis is said to be psychological in various aspects. The aspects of psychological biases examined are overconfidence, representative bias, prospect theory, mental accounting and risky shift.

Many professionals, young and old, are looking at investing their money in different areas. Some would choose investing on a start-up or banking it all on mutual funds. But there is one way people can invest their money for the “Betterment.”

URS or Utah Retirement Systems is a Utah pension fund, manages millions of dollars of real estate around the world farms, and physical property outside of Utah. Portfolios are comprised of post retirement reemployment funds, commercial real estate, malls, and storage units. The URS has a 3.6 billion real estate portfolio along with a 300 million-agriculture portfolio on behalf of the State of Utah employees. Currently 27 billion dollars of a diversified fund with stocks and bonds 49% being in real estate and 3% of the fund in agriculture totaling 300 million. The guest speaker for Darren Olsen notes that Returns are great but they don’t tell the whole story, the story lies with the cap rate and the amount of risk the investment bears. The credit-worthiness

The stock market is where companies are able to sell stocks/shares or derivatives on any agreeable price. There are many stock markets around the world that operate in different countries, and the biggest two are in New York City, U.S.A, which are the NYSE Euronext and NASDAQ. So in this course we were requested to participate in a stock exchange simulation, in which we are to exchange stocks virtually based on real statistics. In this game we were to experiment with buying and selling stocks and try out different strategies, and determine which strategy generated the most profits. The main goal was to start out with $10,000 of virtual money and buy and sell stocks in order to make more profit and increase the final amount.

Even though we made profits in the last week of our trading game, we were still unable to compensate for our total losses incurred. Previously, we had the mind-set that the stock market was far simpler; people buy shares in the hopes of making money. Some people buy and sell often for speculation purposes, while others are long term investors. Sometimes people make a lot of money very quickly, and sometimes people lose a great deal just as fast.

This intention of this project is to simulate a stock exchange environment for  users to learn the basics of stock exchange. This learning process can be simple, stress free, and enjoyable in a gaming environment.  This environment allows players to hone their skills through competition with other players using virtual money to  buy and sell stocks based on a real stock market. Each player can to formulate their own strategy and assess their performance through our user-friendly, web based stock exchange simulator.  Through experience, players will gain confidence in their investing abilities using a variety of stock exchange techniques, which have been implemented in our software.  We hope to make the difficult task of learning to invest in a high risk, stock exchange market an enjoyable experience.

Currently, many BREIA investors own low income properties as investment properties, as a result of the real estate crash in 2007, and many places in Miami had been inundated with a surplus of distressed, bank owned, and unsold developer-owned condos, many of which were being offered at ridiculously reduced prices. This may lead the real estate investor to wonder if high rise condos are good real estate investments as well. Many investors don’t want to lose the opportunity to make a ¬profit in Real Estate, and it doesn’t matter what type of Real Estate property, as long as it offers a high yield of return in a short time.

So the investor will invest 32.58860806% of the investment budget in the risky asset and 67.41139194% in the risk-free asset.

Times have changed and so have all the investment and trading options as well. Online trading activities have taken the entire financial world by storm and it is evident by the sheer number of different online trading platforms and brokerage firms emerging on daily basis. With great many advantages and benefits offered to the investors, it is obvious why; millions of traders and investors are making beelines for this interesting, online format of trading, rather than the traditional ones.

The disadvantages of the equity tool for the financing of real estate ventures consist on forming partnerships or corporations; this means that institutional investors are willing to fund the venture in the form of equity, therefore, becoming shareholders (lost of control). This tool becomes attractive when small private investors

The White Paper outlines a business proposal for introducing Investcorp into the Swiss market that can offer the company an expansion in their sales, marketing, and clientele. Investcorp is a multifaceted company that deals with various corporate investments, real estate, alternative investment solutions, and credit management. The company has excelled in catering and serving private clients wealth and assets with institutional clients such as Tiffany & Company. Our purpose and objective is to illustrate how investing in Switzerland is not only compatible but profitable for the company. Switzerland is one of the world’s wealthiest, modern, and stable economies with one of the smallest taxation fees within the international market. The

Five companies have been chosen in order to conduct research into the securities that they use within their company. The five companies are: Oracle, Disney, Cisco, Wal-mart and a general electric company. The companies chosen span over various industries starting with Oracle and Cisco which are technology companies, Disney which is in the movie industry, Wal-Mart which is a supermarket and lastly an electricity service industry company. This gives us a better view of how the securities change depending on not only the company but also the industry which they are involved in.

Over the last several years, the total number of investment options that investors have available to them, have increased dramatically. This is evident in the overall increase in the number of private equity funds, hedge funds and mutual funds. For example, the total number of private equity deals that were completed in the year 1970 was a total of 12 transactions accounting for $13 million of investment capital. In 2007, this number of transactions increased 2, 247 and accounted for a total of $70 billion in investment capital. (Shapiro, 2008) This is significant because it underscores the overall shift in the way that investors can make money, in an economy that is increasingly becoming more globalized. As a result, the prudent investor