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- What is Core Real Estate? Where are the Opportunities Today?
- This article talks about the real estate cycle that has matured to an equilibrium level, core real estate investment strategies are garnering more attention from pension funds. Although core investing cannot be defined precisely, the overwhelming characteristics relate to the predictability and stability of the income stream, and the liquidity...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Have It Your Way
- Custom indexes may have many attractive features and have important roles to play in the investment process, from supporting investment strategy research to portfolio manager evaluation. First, any investment strategy that really deserves a custom index for fullest evaluation of management skill also requires reference to a standard benchmark's asset...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Stock Returns Are Predictable: A Firm Level Analysis
- This paper studies return predictability at the firm level through the performance of investment strategies that use conditioning information to build unconditional efficient portfolios from individual stocks. The model that generates moments for portfolio selection is a multivariate regression of excess returns on asset pricing factors with alphas and betas...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- A Capital Idea: Total Foundation Asset Management And The Unified Investment Strategy
- This paper presents the perspective that the purpose of foundations is not simply to engage in grant making, but rather to invest in the creation of social value. The idea is also presented that available foundation assets for supporting this process of social value creation should be viewed as not...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Hotel Investment Strategy Annual
- Iraq War, SARS, tourist-targeted terrorist attacks, weak economic growth, Middle East uncertainty, financial meltdown in major economies, internet price gouging, airline woes and tight corporate belts. It has weathered more than its share of disturbances over recent times. However, the theme of "Recovery in Progress" underscores an industry that has...
- White papers 2004-01-06
- Market Selection and Survival of Investment Strategies
- The paper analyzes the process of market selection of investment strategies in an incomplete market of short-lived assets. In the model understudy, asset payoffs depend on exogenous random factors. Market participants use dynamic investment strategies taking account of available information about current and previous events. It is shown that an...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- A Smarter Investment Strategy for Insurers
- Like many investors, insurance companies have pursued greater gains in recent years through more complex and risky ventures. Although their investment strategies have changed, their performance measures haven't - a disconnect that has exposed them to billions of dollars in losses, which have destroyed shareholder value and led ratings agencies...
- White papers
- Be Passive or Not?: Analyzing Passive Investment Strategy in a Financial Market Through Agent-Based Simulation
- Techniques in financial engineering applied to decision making of investment management. However, they sometimes fail because of unpredictable phenomena in financial markets. One is conducting research to uncover issues of financial markets through agent-based modeling. So far, they have reported on micro-macro links among agents and markets, investors' behaviors with...
- White papers 2004-05-10
- Growth Optimal Investment Strategy Efficacy: An Application on Long Run Australian Equity Data
- This paper introduces a variant of ridge regression to form the basis of one of the growth focused investment strategies. The ridge growth optimal technique overcomes the problem of numerically unstable portfolio weights that dogs the formation of short-sales allowed growth portfolios. For the short sales not allowed growth portfolio,...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Departmental Investment Strategy 2005-2008
- ODPM's standard practice and decision-making on assets is based on VFM, informed by best practice and using net present value in investment business cases. The net present value includes all charges including non-cash so ODPM's asset management will, like all its business decisions, meet the new resource budgeting requirements. The...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Asset Allocation: A Sound Investment Strategy
- In these complex financial markets, you have an impressive array of investment vehicles from which to select. Each investment also carries some risks, making it important to choose wisely if you are selecting just one. The good news is that there's no rule that says you must stick with only...
- White papers 2008-01-01
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- Prudential Fixed Income Launches European Bank Loan Investment Strategy in The U.K
- NEWARK, N.J. -- Prudential Fixed Income announced today that it has launched a strategy to invest in the European bank loan market on behalf of institutional investors and affiliates, expanding its fast-growing leveraged finance business. The business is building the strategy around a new team, which begins operations in London...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- How the Best Divest
- If your company's like most, it's geared up to buy assets, not sell them. So when you decide to divest a business, you risk doing it at the wrong time or in the wrong way. ...
- Articles 2008-12-10
- Fortress Investment Group LLC Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Roger Freeman - Barclays Capital. Roger Freeman - Barclays Capital Wes, can you just sort of clarify some of the questions that have been out there about any potential change in strategy for the company with Dan coming...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-05
- Planning Growth Strategies for Your Small Business
- The most successful approach to growth is an integrated one. The business owner and management team must examine all functions of the enterprise to ensure they are working together to reap the benefits of expansion. Suppose a successful new sales promotion strategy designed by the marketing department has attracted many...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- Technology: Tech Vision - RBC Treads The Integration Path In Its Client-first Strategy - The Royal Bank Of Canada's Merging Of Its IT And Operations Departments For Retail And Wholesale Business Is Already Paying Dividends, CIO Marty Lippert Tells Dan Bar
- Marty Lippert's recent decision to merge IT and operations departments from the retail and investment wholesale sides together was driven by the need to execute. The overarching strategy is what Mr Lippert, CIO at Royal Bank of Canada RBC, calls the "client first initiative". ...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Group M Consolidating Print-Buying Operations
- NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Three major media agencies -- Mediaedge:cia, MediaCom and Mindshare -- are merging their print buying departments. The three agencies belong to the WPP's Group M division, the world's largest group of media agencies. Mindshare ranked third in U.S. revenue last year, followed by Mediaedge at fourth...
- News items 2009-08-21
- Is "Short Termism" Endangering Your Business?
- There's been a lot of talk recently about CEO compensation with adjectives like stratospheric and disproportionate getting thrown around. Lawrence E. Mitchell, writing today in Business Week, takes the long view and diagnoses a problem at the heart of the American business system: "The real culprit is the growing...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- View From Asia: India Won't Benefit Fully From the Amazing Productivity of Its Companies Unless It Builds a Better Infrastructure for Business
- India's companies surpass Chinese enterprises in productivity, although most of that productivity is being exported, via the service sector, to distant markets. According to a UBS report, between 1998 and 2003 the average return on capital employed for an Indian firm was 17 percent. China's was 11 percent. India outpaces...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- LightFrog Names IBM Global Services Executive as President; Emerging Leader in Remote Home Technology Management Services Taps Singu Srinivas for Senior Management Team and Board of Directors
- NEEDHAM, Mass. -- LightFrog, an emerging leader in remote home technology management services, today announced that Singu Srinivas, an executive with IBM Global Services, has joined the senior management team and will serve as President and on the Board of Directors along with Michael Wexler. As co-Presidents, Srinivas and Wexler...
- Research articles 2005-05-24
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