Project Report : 1.smallco Investment Fund

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DFA’s investment strategy is based on their belief in the principle that stock market is efficient. They attempt to match a broad-based, value-weighted small-stock index and position themselves in the market as a passive fund manager that still claimed to add value by capturing specific dimensions of risks identified by financial science. DFA’s investment strategy incorporates elements of both passive and active management. It is passive in the sense that like many other index managers, it focuses on the importance of diversification, lower turnover and lower fees than actively managed portfolios. It is active in the sense that it develops its small-value stock focus based on academic research and uses certain techniques (such as

This was a simulation project related to application of different tools of portfolio management. The project was applied by using stocktrak.com platform. This website provides the students and teachers with a real time simulation platform for learning the portfolio investment. A specific allocated amount was used in this simulation project for portfolio investment. A portfolio was created of different securities like stocks, bonds and currencies. These bonds and securities were from different sectors of economy like technology industry, financial industry, consumer goods industry, services industry, health industry, industrial goods industry, utilities industry, and basic materials industry. The top performing stocks in this simulation project were Bank of America Corporation, Hersha Hospitality trust, Deans Food Company, Loews Corporation, and Pepsi Co Inc. The study also found that the percentage return on portfolio remained above the return realized on Dow Jones ETF during the timeline of the project.

To keep the characteristics of the funds in line with the Amoco Core investment approach, the following dimensions are considered:

Chuck Whitman is a degree holder in finance from DePaul University. Before the establishment of ICM, he worked as a portfolio executive for quite a few wealth management companies with the main objective of gaining as much awareness and experience about the industry and its operational techniques as possible. This enthusiasm to learn is what has led him to successfully establish two of the most well-known establishments in the country. Under to his excellent supervision, ICM group scored the 4th rank in the Wealth management business sector in

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1. This data is a list of three-year rates of return of 40 small-capitalization growth mutual funds.

The fund is managed by two different investment advisors, which are Wellington Management Company and Vanguard’s Quantitative Equity Group. So investment strategies are summarized on its 2016 annual report as follows

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The company offers a wide range of different investment packages for different investment strategies and different levels of risk tolerance. The company offers more aggressive products as well as products that are intended for people living on a fixed income. The range of products and services they offer include the following (Invesco, N.d.):

To reduce brokerage fees, this fund aggregated all investment activity by plan participants on a daily basis, matching buying and selling activity. Participants could trade the company stock fund on any business day, but limited to only twice a month. In 1998, Amoco DC plan assets were valued at $5.1 billion. 55.5% of the assets were invested in company stock. The rest of the assets were invested in equity index funds and the money market fund. The plan had 27,290 participants with an average of $186,000 per participant, and contributions of about $4,182 per year from each one of them. The company matched contributions up to 7% of pay.

Invesco Ltd. is the global leader among independent investment management firms. It has no other business interests which help it keep the entire focus on its prime business line.

It is a trust which helps investors to achieve their investment goals through the way of funds.

1. The fund deals with technology driven companies due to the expertise of its fund manager in that area; comfortable in prediction of individual stock