Fund Article Reviews Samples For Students

Introductory section

- Does this material define the primary government? The document has defined the primary government in which the city operates under as the council manger form with six members who are elected for a four year term.
- Does the introductory section discuss the government’s financial condition at the balance sheet date? The introduction briefly discusses the financial position of the government where it states that on a government wide basis, the city’s net assets grew by $19.6 million in that fiscal year which was generated by governmental activities it continues to state that the city’s combined ...

In his article, Ibbotson (2010) investigates the impact of a long-term asset allocation policy on portfolio performance against that of active management with respect to security selection and market timing. The paper draws its inferences from reviewing existing literature on empirical studies examining the same. The issue of contention arises from conclusions made by Brinson, Hood, and Beebower (BHB, 1986) that asset allocation policy was responsible for more than 90% of the return variations of an average fund over time, with market timing and security selection playing minor roles. In contrast, the critics of the BHB model (e.g. Ibbotson ...

Article Review of Hedge Clipping

Article Review of Hedge Clipping
The major issue that is being investigated in this article is about risk management as a result of clipping the hedge. Moreover, the article has presented several advantages of hedge funds over other financial institutions such as banks and brokerage companies. That is hedge funds are not regulated by the SEC, and this provides them with a considerable latitude for investing the money of their customers. This article applies the financial data between the years 1996 to 2003 because from the article; it is clear that Malkiel and Atanu examined the data between 1996 ...

Apart from the financial wealth, the wealth of a nation also consists of physical capital like roads, bridges, factories and machineries; human capital which is the productivity of the workable population and natural capital like coal, oil natural gas, minerals, forests, wetlands and agricultural lands . Among all these wealth components the most pivotal is natural wealth as all other wealth depends upon natural wealth, The other components of wealth are derived from natural capital. The long term survival of a nation depends on how it manages its natural capital. In this paper we are going to discuss the ways ...

Importance of asset allocation strategy

in determining performance
The research paper by Roger G Ibbotson tries to determine (in mathematical terms) how important asset allocation strategy is to overall returns generating capacity of a portfolio.
The total return of a fund comes from different factors. The study determines how much percentage, each of these factor contributes to the total return.

(1) the return generated from movements in the market,
(2) the incremental return generated specifically from the asset allocation policy related to a specific fund, and
(3) the return generated from active portfolio management strategy such as selection of securities, timing of trade and ...

A Review of “The Importance of Asset Allocation”

The article talks about the importance of asset allocation policy, and how much of the total return comprises of return due to asset allocation policy.
The article starts off by illustrating the previous studies done by Brinson, Hood, and Beebower (BHB 1986), Hensel, Ezra, and Ilkiw (HEI 1991) and Ibbotson and Kaplan (2000). These studies are considered one of the main milestones in determining the role asset allocation plays in achieving a higher return.
The article points out that although BHB study had pointed out that over 90% of the variation in total return is due to asset allocation, ...

Management

IMF gives a warning that much efforts is needed by banks to lower their risks
The article is talks about the alerts made by that the International Monetary Fund for banks to come up with solutions to their own problems. It is said that, “when you fail to plain, you plan to fail.” The article’s author is Douwe Miedema and the source is Bloomberg BusinessWeek newspaper. In the paper below, the crisis of bankruptcy in big banks is discussed and their over dependency towards the government. The paper goes further to discuss the improper handling of taxpayers’ money ...

Reading about the Philippine president’s State of the Nation Address or SONA will make people realize especially the international community that the Philippines and its leader is serious about cutting down the abuse of authority of its government officials. One thing that I am very much interested with in relation to my area of interest is Politics and prevailing common policies. The state of the nation address is like a general status report of the president to its people regarding the things that the government has accomplished within the year of office as well as future initiatives. In the ...

White collar crimes are financially motivated and non-violent crimes majorly committed by people of high social status. The term “white collar crime” was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland in his speech to the American Sociological Society.White collar crimes are difficult to detect and prosecute. Perpetrators employ highly sophisticated methods to commit crimes and hide the heinous activities through a chain of complex financial transactions. Punishment for these crimes involve: incarceration, restitution, community service, probation, criminal forfeiture, fines or disgorgement.

Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme-Forbes Magazine

This prominent investor was involved in a Ponzi investment scam with the Madoff’s Hedge Fund. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent ...

Most management experts profess the efficacy of decision making in groups as compared to individuals. This review, however, would focus on certain Group Decision making concepts in the article by Jason Zweig by analyzing the positives and negatives of group decision making and applying these concepts to illustrations in the article.
This paper will begin by highlighting the positive aspects of decision making in a group. The most obvious aspects of group based decision making include a greater combined pool of knowledge, different perspectives that people within the group bring to the table, greater understanding of the rationale behind decisions, ...

Article Review

Article Review
The article, diversity in IMF management ranks seen falling short of targets written by Sandrine Rastello faults the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for failing to make its management ranks balanced in nationality and gender. According to the article, IMF has not achieved its self-imposed diversity targets. A report released by the organization shows that despite the increase in share of women and staff from East Asia and Africa in management jobs, the figures are still below the set targets. However, the target set for staff from the Middle East reached the fund’s target, while that ...

CEW – Current Event Write-Ups

Status of Gold Market in US
Gold is one of the precious metals in the world and it got a price hike of more than four percent in last 28 days, which happened due to increase of Chinese buyers’ interest in gold. One of the largest substantially supported gold exchange traded fund in the world known as SPDR Gold Trust had reported its seven weeks high growth in the sales of gold reason behind substantial increase in the prices too. Although the same fund has not seen any growth in the month of December and January but saw a massive ...

VA Hospital

When considering the VA, many do not think about the technology behind the institution. By some it is considered run down and dreary, too behind the times to have the technology necessary to draw hackers out of their lairs. By others it is considered a medical stronghold for America’s soldiers. By those who work at the Veteran’s administration, they are aware that since 2009, 181 pieces of electronic medical equipment were infected with Malware, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attackers and hackers.
One may ask why a cyber attacker would target the Veteran’s administration, or what ...

Lan, J.Z. (2012). Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis. American Association of Individual Investors. 1.1. 16-20

Summary

There are many users of financial statements that include the management, investors, creditors, government, and employees. This article was targeted at helping investors on how to use the financial statements in order to make informed investment decisions. The article discusses the three main financial statements that firms publish namely; the income statement, the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement.
The income statement shows the investors how much sales and income that a company generated over a period of time usually twelve months. The ...

Chapter three Outline and Questions

Chapter three of ‘A History of Usury and Debts’ entails an insight of the role that monetary systems and religion played in the acquisition of debts in the medieval ages, which reflects the current status of financial markets. Religious laws and regulations antagonized debt and usury in the old ages (Geisst 107). For instance, the Roman Catholics believed that debt and banking were morally wrong, and did not portray good biblical beliefs. Therefore, Roman Catholics did not engage in any form of debt or usury. Because of the restrictions imposed on idealists, only Protestants practiced debt and usury(Geisst ...

Investing in securities is a current strategy in business and it tends to guarantee the profit making ventures of an organization. It is the reason that organizations have to trade in securities and since securities are flexible fits, organizations are bound to make profits on the positive side but they can again loose on the negative side. It means that trading in securities requires an amount of effort in predictions and studies on the most probable security to invest in.
There are a number of strategies used in order to invest in securities. These strategies depend on a number ...

Article Review:

What Will Happen in the World’s Largest Nation?
Article Review: Bank Ownership and Efficiency in China:
What Will Happen in the World’s Largest Nation?
This article (a draft, notably) was written in 2005, and starts off with the report that China was “partially privatizing” three of its four largest banks and opening them to foreign ownership. The article presents data claiming to demonstrate that allowing foreign ownership would increase “efficiency” levels in the banking sector generally. The article also includes a brief yet interesting history of the Chinese banking system.
Ten years later, the article can be ...

Summary

Trading investment is growing at a faster rate and the market structure is changing fundamentally such that business people have indicated presence of low frequency trading opportunities (Maureen, 2014). The chances to purchase are not limited but buyers are few and this has tempted most investors to look for fatter gains. Consequently, this has created the need for implimenting smarter ideas inorder to survive in the market. In fact, by adopting business strategies which are appropriate for the better frequency in business world, investors can get reasonable gains. Otherwise most investments involve some degree of risks like the ...

The article The Nation State and the Globalization of the Economy by Gritsch lay the foundation of the fundamental impact that globalization has on the sovereignty of the state. The emergence of an international organization such as the World Bank, European Union, and International Monitory Fund characterize the trajectory of global economies through regional integration. The debate raised in The Nation State and the Globalization of the Economy holds the view the relationship between the global economic, through the lens of Marxist theory and the functional theory of international organization, shapes the reduced ability and sovereignty of the state ...

What did you learn from this article?

The United States currency has for a long time been used in the international monetary system to facilitate cross border trade transactions. However, the global economic and financial crisis experienced in 2009 exposed the vulnerabilities of the U.S. currency. The effect of the crisis on the United States economy sent an array of fears among many users of the currency. On the other hand, China has emerged as a powerful participant in international trade.
The Chinese government facilitates a significant volume of trade across its borders. The Chinese government has openly challenged the reliability of the U.S. currency as a ‘key’ currency ...

News reporting comes in various forms. Some may be in the form of newspaper articles, a television broadcast, or a radio broadcast, among others. Of the three news media, the newspaper offers a more direct and straightforward manner of news reporting, whereas the television and radio broadcasts are presented in a light manner in order to retain the attention of the audience. For newspapers, news are presented using the inverted pyramid style, which means the more important information are already mentioned to engage the reader at the beginning of the article. Thus, if a reader finds the article engaging, the tendency is for the ...

Introduction

In the United States, and in other developed countries, healthcare is treated more like a necessity than a benefit, contrary to the way how most developing countries prioritize the provision for healthcare and other health and wellness-related services, wherein it is perceived more like a luxury. This is one of the main reasons why there are a lot of thriving health and medical insurance companies in the U.S. and other developed countries. The citizens in those places are willing to pay a premium just to get the best healthcare services for themselves and their family members, who basically act as dependents in a family health ...

Article Review: Japan’s Growth Strategy is All Wrong

Abstract
The article Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the policies implemented by the Japan government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that is viewed to jeopardise the country’s low interest rate environment that is conducive for spending and investment. The purpose of the student in writing this paper is to present the economic problem faced by Japan as an implication of the policies executed by the government, applying the concepts and principles that I have learned in my Economics.
The article entitled Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the ...

Introduction:

This article elaborates the several factors affecting the housing and property in the markets of Malaysia. The international credit agency has given focus on this housing and property markets in relation to the forces of demand and supply in their economy. The rise in the prices of property has attracted great concern since they have a great impact in the economy of Malaysia. It is therefore necessary to emphasis and focus on this issue in order to consider the general impact on the economy as well as how to curb this problem using various economic means and tools.
The ...

Executive summary

This article discusses the topic are there issues with revenue –neutral carbon tax as reported on the wall street journal of April 17th 2013.with increased campaign on the need for reduction on emissions that have caused an increase in the quantity of green house gases that have led to dramatic climatic changes.
According to the Washington post of 25th April 2013, it’s depicted that, “For years it’s been obvious in policy-wonk circles that a carbon tax is a great idea.”
Many nations especially the developed ones like those in Europe have in America have opposed this move ...