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- A Portfolio Management Approach to Assessing Acquisition and Divestiture Candidates
- "The main focus of this presentation is basically upon approach for assessing Acquisition and Divestiture candidates. It outlines specific method for evaluation of A&D candidates. These are basic portfolio analysis process, typical questions addressed, examples of portfolio evaluations for both acquisitions and divestitures. All these have been discussed in detail....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Improving The Consistency Of Business Performance Through Portfolio Management
- The presentation tells about portfolio management and its application to tangible relatively illiquid assets like Oil & Gas Asset management, Pharmaceutical R&D, Chemical production and Real Estate property management. It provides insights into specific decisions. The application of portfolio management concepts are also mentioned. It clearly describes the goals...
- White papers 2003-04-02
- Disaster Insurance Using Portfolio Management Techniques
- The presentation defines Portfolio Management as a method to compare the relative attractiveness of alternative investments. It is an application of Markowitz' 1952 "Portfolio Selection" works to oil and gas investments. It is a decision process that seeks to address business problems by manipulating and understanding the mix and timing...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Appropriate Data Resolution For The PM Problem Being Addressed - When Is Good Enough Good Enough?
- The usual areas of concern of this are clients (Software, Data), portfolio decisions Management Participation and Cultural Change. The applications for portfolio management are strategic planning, investment analysis, and budgeting. The plan of attack is to understand the business problem. One should review the at-hand data, discuss and understand the...
- White papers 2003-03-06
- Implementing Portfolio Management: People, Process, & Tools
- The slide show tells about Technically robust, Flexible, Visual, and Integrated. It presents some case studies, analyzes it from different angles – people, process, and tools. The technically robust tells about integrate risk and uncertainty, explores multiple business questions strategic questions, flexibility easily customized for their metrics, visual. The customize...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Decision Maker's Dilemma
- Investment ideas can come from various sources: the exploration department proposes prospects, business development is on the lookout for acquisition candidates, and engineering evaluates development and acceleration projects. Ultimately, some process must be used to choose among available projects to construct a portfolio designed to meet the suite of business...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Market Timing and Managerial Portfolio Decisions
- This paper provides evidence that top managers have contrarian views on firm value. Managers' perceptions of fundamental value diverge systematically from market valuations, and perceived mispricing seems an important determinant of managers' decision-making. Insider trading patterns shows that low valuation firms are regarded as undervalued by their own managers relative...
- White papers 2004-08-23
- Portfolio Choice and Health Status
- This paper analyzes the role that health status plays in household portfolio decisions using data from the Health and Retirement Study. The results indicate that health is a significant predictor of both the probability of owning different types of financial assets and the share of financial wealth held in each...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Project and Portfolio Management Decisions: A Framework and Body of Knowledge Model for Cycle Research
- Investors and portfolio managers have recognized the critical importance of real estate cycles, their pervasive and dynamic impacts on investment returns and risks, and their strategic implications for project and portfolio decisions. The purpose of this study is to provide a perspective on real estate cycles research; present a user-friendly...
- White papers 2003-06-20
- When in Peril, Retrench: Testing the Portfolio Channel of Contagion
- This paper presents a simple model on how heterogeneous changes in investors' risk aversion affect portfolio decisions and stock prices. Second, it empirically shows that, when funds' returns are below average, they adjust their holdings toward the average or benchmark portfolio. In other words, they tend to sell the assets...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- TABB Group Sees the Rise of a New Breed of Trade Execution Tools Designed for Portfolio Strategies
- Research Firms Says Crossing Networks and List-based Algorithms will Gain a Larger Share of Basket Trades during 2009 NEW YORK & LONDON -- From traditional mutual fund and hedge fund companies to the largest of broker-dealers and the retail investor, the goal is universal: find the right portfolio mix...
- Research articles 2009-01-20
- Portfolio Decisions of Investors
- It shows how such predictability can affect the portfolio choices of long-lived investors who wealth not for its own sake but for the consumption their wealth can support. The role of nominal bonds in long-term portfolios depends on the importance of real interest rate risk relative to other sources of...
- White papers 2002-02-23
- Consumption, Debt and Portfolio Choice: Testing the Effect of Bankruptcy Law
- Consumer bankruptcy laws, which vary across states and over time, permit debtors to keep assets below a statutory exemption while debts are forgiven. High exemptions distort household portfolio decisions and tempt households to default on debts; but they also provide a crude form of consumption insurance. In this paper, information...
- White papers 2002-02-20
- Alcoa Updates on Portfolio Review
- NEW YORK -- Following the recent monetization of its stake in Aluminum Corporation of China Limited Chalco, Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced a series of portfolio decisions that will further enhance its capital structure and provide additional opportunities to improve shareholder value.
- Research articles 2007-10-04
- What Are the Keys to Successful and Active Intervention by GPs in Their Troubled Portfolio Companies?
- When portfolio companies become troubled, the General Partner's role is to determine if outside intervention is required and, if so, which resources must be brought to bear and in what time frame. Most portfolio companies do not experience severe distress; however, companies under perform sufficiently often that the General Partner...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Decision Support For Portfolio Problems
- Many decisions must consider multiple, generally conflicting, decision objectives. And many decisions require not a single solution alternative, but a set or portfolio of alternatives. A business will generally produce a portfolio of products. Government will raise revenue through a portfolio of taxes. A prospective college student is wise to...
- White papers 2005-02-18
- ETFs: An Effective Tool For Customized Portfolio Solutions
- The explosion in the number and size of exchange-traded funds ETFs confirms that institutional and individual investors are increasingly more comfortable investing in these products. ETFs cover a wide spectrum of investment options across domestic and global markets, market capitalization, investment styles, and sectors. Exchange-traded funds are an effective tool...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- People Portfolio Management (Part 4)
- From the executive summary: 'Every day, business and HR executives are faced with making critical decisions about the number, type, and quality of talent needed to run their business. Most HR executives lack complete and accurate information to make the critical decisions, making it difficult to manage the people's portfolio...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Mercer study: Analysts taking new approach to pension data; More 'what-if' scenarios used in buy/sell decisions.(News)(Mercer Investment Consulting Inc.)
- Byline: Barry B. Burr Analysts at major money management firms are re-engineering corporate pension financial data in valuing companies for portfolio buy and sell decisions, according to a study by Mercer Human Resource Consulting LLC and Mercer I Byline: Barry B. Burr ...
- Research articles 2003-11-10
- A Successful Portfolio Pricing Strategy Begins With A Broader Outlook
- From the executive summary: ‘Economists have long recognized that pricing is one of the most powerful levers available for managing demand. Yet, many companies seem to treat pricing decisions as either an afterthought or a tactical detail. By developing a portfolio-level pricing strategy, companies can better understand how their markets...
- White papers 2002-01-01
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