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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.
Tags: inflation, tax, tool
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.
Tags: Strategy, tool
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,...
Tags: Leadership, business ethics, small business
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...
Tags: Factor, State, Decentralisation, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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...
Tags: Arizona State University, turbine, analysis, product development, performance
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...
Tags: BioMed Central, clustering, patient, environment
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...
Tags: Insurance, Guy Carpenter & Co., reinsurance, renewal, line of business
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...
Tags: Insurance, Project HOPE
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...
Tags: Innovation, Trajectory, Factor, Industry, Lund University, Firms, Product Development, Strategy, Channel Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Marketing
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...
Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Investopedia, stock price, investor, trader, finance, financial, stock
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...
Tags: modeling
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...
Tags: Factor, Accident, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources
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...
Tags: Asset management, asset allocation, asset, real estate
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...
Tags: Everest Group, leadership, outsourcing, board, benefit
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...
Tags: Financial services, interest rate, equity, environment
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...
Tags: Performance management, performance, 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...
Tags: Asset management, Yale University, Capital Asset Pricing Model, asset pricing, asset, equity
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...
Tags: Supply chain, logistics, incentive, environment, industry
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...
Tags: American Association of Drilling Engineers, cost savings, window
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...
Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Financial services, life insurance, corporate governance, interest rate, equity, accounting, environment, industry
White papers 2003-01-16