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- Investment Returns
- Meeting your long-term investment goal is dependent on a number of factors. This not only includes your investment capital and rate of return, but inflation, taxes and your time horizon. This tool helps you sort through these factors and determine your bottom line.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Test Your Risk Tolerance
- Many factors play into how much risk you can afford to have in your portfolio. This tool is designed to get at some of those factors and demonstrate how their combination will affect your investment choices.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Business Ethics for Small Business
- Business Ethics for Small Business: Is it possible for an individual with strong moral values to make ethically questionable decisions in a business setting? What affects a person's inclination to make either ethical or unethical decisions in a business organization? Although the answers to that question are not entirely clear,...
- White papers 2006-09-05
- Delegation to Devolution
- Decentralisation has always figured on India's policy agenda in one form or other. Its fortunes, however, have fluctuated in response to several factors. Among them the attitude of the centre and the specific socio-political contexts in different states are particularly important. The latter explains, to a large extent, differences in...
- White papers 2006-05-20
- The Use Of Supersaturated Statistical Designs In Product Development
- When designing a complex mechanical system there is always considerable emphasis on reducing the time spent determining the best design. Understanding factors contribute to the performance of the system as rapidly as possible is very important. Supersaturated Statistical Designs SSDs offer a potentially useful way to investigate many factors with...
- White papers 2006-03-06
- Genetic, Household and Spatial Clustering of Leprosy on an Island in Indonesia: A Population-Based Study
- It is generally accepted that genetic factors play a role in susceptibility to both leprosy per se and leprosy type, but only few studies have tempted to quantify this. Estimating the contribution of genetic factors to clustering of leprosy within families is difficult since these persons often share the same...
- White papers 2005-11-24
- Special Factors Impacting the Reinsurance Market in 2005
- The reinsurance market at 1 January, 2005 renewals could, perhaps, best be described as moderately soft, with the emphasis on 'moderately'. For most lines of business, renewal rates were flat or down, but with decreases mainly restricted to single digits. Similarly, where there were increases, they also tended to be...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- The Underwriting Cycle: The Rule of Six
- The underwriting cycle is a thing of the past for most health insurance companies. There were six primary factors that caused the six-year pattern of the underwriting cycle for 1965-1991. These factors were claims payment cycle time, renewal dates and process, growth versus profit objectives, role of the actuary, rate...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Market Guided Innovation And Product Development (2004)
- The concept of technological trajectory, recognizes the importance of pure technological improvements, but in addition to that, it emphasizes the importance of other socioeconomic factors such as organisational and institutional factors, which constrain technologies and firmsī development into particular path, with given direction and rate of development. Firmsī knowledge and...
- White papers 2004-10-26
- Forces That Move Stock Prices
- Different types of investors depend on different factors. Short-term investors and traders tend to incorporate and may even prioritize technical factors. Long-term investors prioritize fundamentals and recognize that technical factors play an important role. Investors who believe strongly in fundamentals can reconcile themselves to technical forces with the following popular...
- White papers 2004-10-08
- A Fuzzy Logic Based Approach To Support Users Self-Control Of Their Private Contextual Data Retrieval
- In context aware applications such as location based, m-health care, and m-business applications, it is expected that a huge amount of users context information will be collected, which threatens their privacy concerns. Users consent is a mandatory requirement of users privacy support. Increasingly, it seems clear that user consent decision...
- White papers 2004-05-19
- Measuring Organizational Factors in Airline Safety
- In recent years, there have been several major transportation accidents which have brought significant attention to the role that organizational factors play in motivating operator safety within high-risk systems, yet very little has been studied regarding the direct contribution organizational factors play in accidents. The purpose of the study presented...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Isolating Important Driving Forces in Indirect Real Estate Markets
- Isolating the important driving factors in property markets is of continuing interest to both property analysts and fund managers. Ascertaining permanent driving factors may be of interest to strategic asset allocation while transitory factors may be of interest in the development of tactical asset allocation models. This study uses established...
- White papers 2004-01-19
- A Design For A Successful Sole Sourcing Approach
- Although a poorly managed sole source approach can fail to meet the buyer's expectations, organizations that take time to develop and lead a thoughtful approach can attain the desired benefits of a sole source approach. Five factors create a successful sole source approach to outsourcing. Several of these factors are...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- 2003 Midyear Review: North American Life Insurance
- In 2003, the North American life insurance industry was recovering from the effects of an unprecedented confluence of environmental factors. These factors included the worst credit markets in more than a decade in both 2001 and 2002, a bear market for equities since early 2000 and the lowest interest rates...
- White papers 2003-09-02
- Evaluation of Navigator's Performance Shaping Factors in Marine Incidents
- This paper discusses progress in the development of an incident investigation system to improve maritime safety management. The authors designed a questionnaire about marine incidents and the conditions of navigators' Performance Shaping Factors PSF in those incidents. The results revealed important dangerous relationships between unsafe acts and PSF, through analysis...
- White papers 2003-07-31
- Capital Asset Pricing Model Integrating both Firm and Market
- This paper proposes a theoretical framework to incorporate a firm's intrinsic value and market-trading value into asset pricing model. It shows that asset return can be decomposed into two components. The first component, called the firm factor, is related to the output of a firm and is proportional to return...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- The Driving Force Behind Automotive's Migration
- The focus of Economic development professionals, and corporate executives responsible for site selection activities is on movement of business sites. While incentives are indeed an important consideration, they are by no means the driving forces behind this migration. Competitive operating costs logistics synergies and to some extent environmental considerations...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- The Difference Between Fracture Gradient and Wellbore Pressure Containment and the Effect on Drilling Beyond Natural Pressure Limits
- In this paper, the difference between Fracture gradient FG and Wellbore pressure containment WPC is analyzed and illustrated using literature and field data. Solutions for improving WPC are presented. The potential for cost savings from improved wellbore pressure containment is also demonstrated. Wellbore pressure containment WPC is the maximum allowable...
- White papers 2003-02-11
- Review and Outlook 2002-2003: Life Insurance (North America)
- This paper is on the North American life insurance industry which is in the midst of a perfect storm. It is being rocked by a confluence of factors that is unprecedented in the industry's history. These factors include the worst credit markets in more than a decade, a bear market...
- White papers 2003-01-16
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