Essays on Brokerage

The chapter under consideration is the Chapter 5, Financial Services: Savings Plans and Payment Accounts. The chapter gives to the reader five important aspects that contribute to the understanding of the personal finances. 1. The first aspect is the selection and use of the available financial services in the market and the factors that influence the decision to select a specific financial service. The selection of the financial service depends on of the needs of the client and the convenience of fees and conditions. One of the financial services is the availability of cash. The cash is the most ...

Introduction

In the real estate business, closing or finalizing a certain deal stands as one of the mysterious processes for those who are selling or buying property for the very first time. Apart from specific paperwork, the concerned parties have to go through and carry out a lot of other activities. With this concern in mind, this research paper is aimed at making important discussion about the true essence of what the real estate closings really stand for. Apart from defining this concept with succinct detail, it is imperative to define all those activities and processes that lead to or ...

High-risk investments mean volatility associated with the returns on investments and stock prices change. Any investment transaction has a risk element. Moreover, the major proportion of the investment theory states that the potential profitability is inversely proportional to the risk level . At this, it is not important whether it goes about the passive investment, active stock transactions or new business projects. Risk allows earning much and provokes losing much because associated with potential losses even in the case of success. It is extremely important to understand quantitative and qualitative characteristics of risks, which affect the amount of the invested ...

Who are we? The National Bank of Canada is an incorporated group that offers an inclusive financial service to clients. Its customers are small, medium-sized firms and big corporations that are in the major market of the bank while providing special services elsewhere around the globe. The NBC offers a full range of services such as corporate, and investment banking in this sector. Moreover, it is considered as an active player on the world markets. What do we do? The bank participates in the brokerage of securities, management of wealth, the mutual fund and the retirement plan arrangements as ...

The Qatar Stock Market

Before discussing Qatar’s stock market, let us gain some relevant information about the country itself. Qatar is located in the continent of Asia and covers over 11,000 square kilometers of land which makes the country the 168th largest nation when looking at land area. Qatar became an independent state in 1971 gaining its independence from the United Kingdom with a population of 1,951,591 people in 2012. The currency is the Qatari Rial (World Atlas, 2015). When viewing the stock market, there is information that every investor should know about Qatar before investing in the market ...

The film Runaway Jury presented ethical dilemmas among the main characters Dustin Hoffman (Wendall Rohr), Gene Hackman (Rankin Fitch) and John Cusack (Nick Easter). In the movie Celeste Wood sought the help of Wendall Rohr, a lawyer to represent her and file a case against Vicksburg Firearms, a gun manufacturing company, for the death of her husband Jacob Wood, who was one of the victims in the massacre that took place in a brokerage office. Gun manufacturer and owner Garland Jankle, played by Stanley Anderson hired the services of a brilliant jury consultant Rankin Fitch to help him win ...

Abstract

The impacts of an enterprise’s dividend policy on share prices wield considerable significance to the investors, economists, and corporate officials. The economists try to appraise and understand the operations of the capital markets, the corporate officials institute the guidelines, while the investors plan the portfolios. Throughout the process, several queries arise: Do the firms with substantial distribution policies sell their premiums over those with negligible payouts? If yes, under what circumstances? Is there a standard series of ratios or payouts that can maximize the share prices? The three questions have been the focus of various studies, but the ...

Problems Facing the Firm

Quadriserv Firm aimed at creating a centralized marketplace where the investors could effectively lend as well as borrow securities. In other words, the goal of this company was to modernize the United States equity securities lending market. Nonetheless, the brokerage firms resisted Quadriserv Firm’s innovations. Quadriserv faced a dilemma in deciding whether to make the changes to its systems so as to preserve a number of advantages, which the brokerage firms had in the prevailing marketplace and facilitate their participation in the electronic marketplace, which it was creating or not (Cohen & Malloy, 2011). The changes to Quadriserv Firm’ ...

Impact of the Internet on Delivery of Financial Services in Canada

Impact of the Internet on Delivery of Financial Services in Canada

Introduction

As the business world these days is highly driven by globalization pressures and increased focus on integration of global marketplaces, the rise of technology has changed the manner in which businesses carry out their activities. Specifically, such a technological revolution could be easily noticed in the finance industry of every economy or country. With an introduction of technological advancement, the nature of finance industry, particularly in Canada, has changed from holding of tangible securities to the intangible assets. People in Canada used to carry stock and bond certificates ...