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well-diversified portfolio is the contribution of an asset to the portfolio’s variance, as measured by beta. Thus, the SML serves as a benchmark for assessing the performance of an individual asset or the assets of an entire portfolio. Results KLSE INDEX |Companies |Standard Deviation |Beta |Required Return | |AEON |11.83% |1.03 |6.97%

1. Introduction In the past 20 years, the central banks in most developed countries had successfully managed to control the inflation rate. However, the financial crisis 2008 has highlighted the links between financial market and policy. (Ravn, 2011) The topic I am going to discuss is the relationship between monetary policy and the stock market. What factors have influenced interest rate and how the policymakers should react to the change in stock market have driven the increasing attentions lately

Q1. You have been asked by the prospective directors of a shortly to be established business what is meant by ordinary shares, preference shares and debt capital. Further, you have been asked to provide a brief explanation of their relative advantages and disadvantages as sources of funds to expand the business. Write an essay to assist these managers. (300 words max) Ordinary shares are the value capital of the firm. The ordinary shareholders are the owners accordingly, entitled all distributed

1. Introduction   ‘‘Alton Towers Resort the UK’s No. 1 Theme Park’’ (Merlin Groups, 2015) has closed after the incident on the £18 million Smiler rollercoaster, which was launched in 2013. The horrific crash occurred on Tuesday 2nd July 2015 where 16 people were hit by an empty carriage, with 4 people being seriously injured (Simpson and Barnes, 2015). Due to the incident at Alton Towers the Resort was closed for 6 days, which left a massive impact on sales, shares and other businesses.  The

Globalization and Its Effects On the Global Economy In the past 100 years, the world has shifted enormously. Once, a world that only communicated when one nation was trying to take control of another, is now connected more than ever. This transformation began with the Industrial Revolution in a period from around 1760 to 1840. Thinking back to that time, we can easily think of noticeable differences between how the world was and how it is today. The United States was a small, developing country,

ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT The UK government has announced a package of measures aimed at rescuing banking system that makes 400 billion pound. 100 billion pound will be available in short term loans from bank of England on top of an existing loan facility. Banks will have to increases their capital by at least 25 billion pound and borrow from government. An additional 25 billion pound in extra capital will be available in exchange of preference shares. Government described as the root cause

Investments the company will engage will consist only of investments with high moral and ethical character. The management, after a thorough investigation of their background and subsequent accolades should be of the highest standard of integrity. Any form of misconduct or misdeeds in the recent past will disqualify the company from investment. Through social investments, the company can increase resources dedicated to the overall socially conscious initiative and create ways by which the same money

IMPACT OF BREXIT REFERENDUM ON INDIAN STOCK MARKET Dr. S. Sathyanarayana, Prof.SudhindraGargesha, Associate Professor, Joint director, MP Birla Institute of Management, MP Birla Institute of Management, Bangalore, gargesa@gmail.com sathya4u.s@gmail.com ABSTRACT Immediately after World War II, many European nations felt it was important to unite the European nations to form a union for the economic and social benefits. However, the dream of a “Common European

You Are Too Much Of A Risk Taker The people who always bet on the outsiders tend to be the ones that lose. Making risky investments is a great way to make a lot of money very quickly if you happen to be incredibly lucky. Otherwise, risk takers tend to lose it all and come away with nothing. You Are Too Risk-Reactive/ Loss-Reactive This is the most toxic investor flaw. It is the sort of person that sells their shares when the company hits a bump in the road or their share prices drop sharply

delivery date, but the same underlying commodity. The performance of the calendar spread strategy is compared with the long future contract and spot position strategies. The commodity benchmark index is also introduced which provides the comparison of the performance of the three strategies against the commodity index. \subsubsection{Calendar Spreads} A calendar spread or the intra-market spread is a portfolio strategy where two future contracts are simultaneously bought and sold for the same asset, but