This paper analyzes the interaction among investment, financing and hedging policies in a model where managers derive perquisites from investment. In this model, both hedging and financing policies affect a firm's investment policy, thus changing costs of over- and underinvestment. The paper demonstrates that combinations of financing and hedging policies...
This paper addresses one of the policy areas covered in the Policy Framework for Investment within the context of the OECD Initiative on Investment for Development - investment policy. The purpose of this paper is to examine how investment policy contributes to an environment that is attractive to domestic and...
The long-held belief that investment policy accounts for more than 90% of performance results has recently been questioned by critics of the study that established this belief. While the critics suggested - but failed to agree on -- alternative measures to better estimate the importance of investment policy, they unanimously...
Global Green USA, a group that has promoted the construction of eco-friendly homes in the 9th Ward in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, says it will invest $17 million in New Orleans. "Green is not a trend for Global Green. It is a stalwart commitment to bring...
Byline: DR DAVID HILL I HAVE just got back into the UK from two-weeks of meetings and discussions with the Prime Minister and the leadership of Kazakhstan in central Asia. Here and in other Eurasian/Asian economies, predominantly in the Muslim world, their banks and financial systems...
THE Government was today urged to invest more money in housing after figures showed that almost 63,000 families in England are homeless. The building workers' union Ucatt said the number was a "damning indictment" of 30 years of failed Government policies on housing. The union's general...
Closes Acquisition of Leading Political and Economic Advisory Firm SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC, a leading independent proxy advisory and investment research firm, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Washington Analysis Corporation, a top-rated political and economic advisory...
RESTON, Va., Dec. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Serco Group plc Serco and SI International, Inc. today announce that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States CFIUS has completed its review of the proposed acquisition of SI International by Serco and is permitting the proposed acquisition to proceed....
NEW YORK -- The Turkish Investment Fund, Inc. (NYSE: TKF) (the "Fund") announced today that, at a Special Meeting of Stockholders held on December 23, 2008, stockholders approved an amendment to the Fund's investment restriction regarding concentration of investments in any one industry. Under the amended investment restriction, the Fund...
SAN ANTONIO -- U.S. Global Investors, Inc. (Nasdaq: GROW), a boutique registered investment advisor specializing in natural resources and emerging markets, will continue its monthly dividend policy into 2009. The Company's board of directors voted to approve payment of a 2-cents-per-share monthly dividend for all classes of common...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5589ba/analysis_report_of) has announced the addition of the "Analysis Report of the Market Research of Medical Devices in China in 2008-2010" report to their offering. The report is a full analysis on the medical device industry. It begins with a definition of the...
Allied Properties REIT (TSX: AP.UN) announced today that the Trustees of the REIT have approved a temporary partial waiver of the REIT's black-out policy that applies to trustees, management, staff and other related parties. Under the temporary partial waiver, trustees, management, staff and other related parties will be permitted to...
WASHINGTON -- The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation PBGC today announced the selection of investment firms BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan as strategic partners to manage $2.5 billion in assets and provide support to PBGC's in-house investment staff. "These new strategic partners will do much more than manage...
King & Spalding, a leading international lawfirm, announced today it elected three partners to the firm's 10-personpolicy committee, effective January 1, 2009. They are Scott J. Arnold NewYork, Tracie J. Renfroe Houston, and Philip R. Weems Dubai. King & Spalding's policy committee is responsible for firm policies,strategic initiatives and the...
Appointment of Holdren Bodes Well for Vision and Integrity WASHINGTON -- Jim Greenwood, President and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization BIO, today issued the following statement in response to President-Elect Obama's appointment of Harvard University professor John Holdren as assistant to the President for Science and Technology...
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Spain Fund, Inc. , a closed-end management investment company, declared on this date, December 19, 2008, a quarterly distribution of $0.203 per share of Common Stock, payable on January 2, 2009 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December...
PURCHASE, N.Y. -- MVC Capital, Inc. (NYSE: MVC), a publicly traded business development company that makes private debt and equity investments, has announced that its board of directors has declared a dividend of $0.12 per share, or a total of approximately $2.9 million, to be distributed to shareholders for the...
LOS ANGELES -- The TCW Strategic Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: TSI) announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly distribution of $0.075, plus a special year-end distribution of $0.08. Both distributions are payable on January 9, 2009 to shareholders of record on December 30, 2008. The...
NEWTON, Mass. -- This press release makes announcements concerning the following closed end mutual funds: RMR Real Estate Fund (NYSE Alternext US: RMR); RMR Real Estate and Hospitality Fund (NYSE Alternext US: RHR); RMR F.I.R.E. Fund (NYSE Alternext US: RFR); RMR Preferred...
The outlook for global growth has deteriorated dramatically in recent weeks. Both the hard data and surveys point to sharp drops in output and a collapse in new orders. In part this reflects strong consumer retrenchment - consumer spending in the US, dropped at an annual rate of almost 4%...
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