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Miami Dade County U S Department
1,690 words
Known as the major international trading hub of
the Americas, Greater Miami's business community,
people, neighborhoods, schools and architecture
all exhibit a cosmopolitan character. The
proximity of the Caribbean, Central and South
America plus superior seaport and airport
capabilities provide this area with a distinct
advantage as a global trading center. Long
acclaimed for its physical beauty and advantageous
climate, Greater Miami also continues as a prime
tourist destination. Greater Miami...
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Board Of Directors Mutual Fund
1,611 words
What is a Mutual Fund and How Does It Work? Think
of a mutual fund as an investment company that
pools the money of people just like you for one
common reason -- to make more. Not all pots of
money, though, are alike. Each mutual fund has its
own strategy and investment objective for making
money. It's up to you to select the right mutual
fund for you based on your own needs. There are
two types of mutual funds. The most common, which
this book primarily talks about, is open-end
funds. In essenc...
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Domestic And Foreign Depository Institutions
1,062 words
... mercial enterprises was virtually the only
type of loan commercial bankers would undertake.
Today, bankers lend to businesses, consumers, and
governments (both domestic and foreign), with
maturities ranging from one day to several
decades. In the late 1980 s about 90 percent of
the banking system's loans financed commercial and
industrial enterprises, real-estate transactions,
and consumer loans. The remaining loans were
allocated to other financial intermediaries, to
security dealers and br...
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00 A M Net Income
819 words
On the first Saturday after school is out, Christy
and her family go to the park for a picnic. After
lunch, Christy, who is eight years old, takes a
walk around the park with her Dad. At one end of
the park, she sees young girl selling lemonade in
front of a house across the street. She recognizes
the girl as one of her classmates, and Christy and
Dad cross the street for a chat. Her classmate,
Abigail is doing a brisk business selling lemonade
at 25 cents per cup, and shows Christy a shoebox
fu...
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Merrill Lynch Brokerage Firms
1,651 words
Schwab introduced Tele Broker, a fully automated
telephone system that allowed customers to
retrieve real-time stock quotes and place orders.
Schwab also leveraged its back-office operations
with Schwab Link, a service to provide fee-based
financial advisors with back-office custodial
services and the capability for RIAs to plug into
Schwab's computers to trade. The RIA market became
an important source of revenue for Schwab. By
2000, Schwab had 5, 900 affiliated RIAs, who
controlled about 30 % ...
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Federal Trade Commission Internet Users
1,686 words
Privacy & Technology Introduction The advent of
information technology springs from the idea that
information superhighway is made available to all
people from all walks of life. All sorts of
information are made accessible at the tip of ones
fingers and can be retrieved in a short period of
time through the amazing Internet technology,
computerized or electronically processed data
system. What used to be data, like records or
public documents, gathered for weeks or days can
now be obtained in m...
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Mutual Fund Latin America
988 words
The Liberty All - Star Fund, Blue Chip Value Fun
and The Latin America Equity Fund: Which of these
is the best long term investment One of the three
recognized types of investment company is
companies with a closed-end fund. Their legally
name is closed-end companies. The main difference
from an open-end fund is in the price of a share.
In a closed-end fund one part of it is determined
by the value of the investments in the fund, and
the other by the discount placed on it by the
market. If the f...
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Lot Of Money Point Of View
1,699 words
Apple Computer Inc. Apple Computer Inc. is one of
the leading computer companies in the world. This
corporation is one of those defining the IT marked
and which is supposed to be dominating at least in
the forthcoming decade. Apple Computer Inc. was
established in 1977 in California. The main
objectives of the company are designing,
manufacturing and marketing the personal
computers, software, related goods such as
peripherals and the networking equipment. The
company is among founders and the l...
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Balanced Scorecard Learning And Growth Perspective
986 words
Balanced Scorecard (Learning and Growth
Perspective) It is known that examining old
measures is a part of strategy for a manager.
Measurements are very important for evaluating
performance. But, as a rule, managers rarely think
of measurements. Taking it into account, new
strategies and processes have been introduced.
They help to improve a situation without examining
old and new measures of performance. The measures
have been organized into an effective measurement
system: the balanced scorecar...
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Eighty Percent Standard Deviation
885 words
Do you think a Taiwan Index fund is a good
long-term investment? Indexing is one of the most
popular investment techniques among investors in
plenty of developed markets. Lets try to make a
prognosis, whether a Taiwan index fund is a good
long-term investment. iShares MSCI Taiwan Index
Fund is a non-diversified fund that makes
investments in stocks that are mainly traded on
the Taiwan Stock Exchange and uses a sampling
strategy aimed to track its index. According to
information from Business Wee...
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401 K Retirement Plan
1,453 words
401 (k) Retirement Plan 401 (k) retirement plan is
one of the most popular retirement plans. Under
this plan, the worker is allowed to save for his
future retirement, where income taxes on the
employees earnings and saved money are deferred
until withdrawal. The worker has an option to have
a part of his wages to be paid directly into the
401 (k) account. There are few types of 401 (k)
plan, namely, trustee-directed 401 (k) plans
(which are not very popular) and
participant-directed 401 (k) plan...
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Hardware Software Security Policy
255 words
According to Oklahoma's Official Web Site,
Information is a critical State asset. Information
is comparable with other assets in that there is a
cost in obtaining it and a value in using it.
However, unlike many other assets, the value of
reliable and accurate information appreciates over
time as opposed to depreciating. Shared
information is a powerful tool and loss or misuse
can be costly, if not illegal. Therefore, the
State has provided the Security Policy in order to
protect its information...
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Industrial Espionage Intellectual Property
1,212 words
BUG, Inc. , Paper. 1) As we understand from the
BUGs activities some of a company's most important
assets are its intellectual property rights, which
include patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade
secrets. Thus the company should take elaborate
precautions to ensure that physical equipment does
not leave the building as well as to disallow
these valuable assets to go unprotected.
Intellectual property is not like other types of
property and with case of BUG company illustrates
that. It is con...
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Multinational Corporations Exchange Rates
1,624 words
The paper is concentrated around the discussion of
hedging as one of the options for insuring the
firm from financial risks, and thus losses.
Hedging is the integral part of any business risk
management and at present time is the best choice
for those, who want to be sure in future
profitability of the enterprise. However, hedging
poses some questions and challenges and very often
becomes a cornerstone in the business activity.
Thus, the work will describe and argument the
necessity of hedging i...
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Stocks And Bonds Financial Assets
768 words
Managing investments is a very serious matter,
which can lead either to huge profits or to huge
losses. This paper is aimed at explaining, whether
it is worth seeking for outside assistance in such
matters and what should be remembered in case such
assistance is called for. Investment management It
has become very frequent at present time to use
the outside service and assistance of investment
(financial) broker or estate planner. The use of
the planners assistance is the means of saving
time an...
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Order To Avoid Balanced Scorecard
644 words
Critical Analyzing Topic 1: Static and Flexible
Budgeting Flexible budget is a budget which shows
how costs are varying with either different output
rates or with sales volume levels and the revenue
is based on the mentioned varying levels of
output. Flexible budget should be used instead of
static in order to avoid some difficulties and
complexities. The flexible budget can be used: To
prepare the future budget just before the fact
which is based on the activity levels which are
expected To com...
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Continental Illinois Case Part 2
1,633 words
... to ones investment and risk, the Continental
Illinois bank should have been allowed to fail
just like Prof. Kaufman claimed in his 1995
report. The USA has historically allowed windfall
gains as well as bankruptcies to contribute to the
competitive environment within the States and to
the market economy this country strived to uphold
throughout its history. From the utilitarian point
of view the Continental Illinois bank should not
have been allowed to fail due to the fact that it
would have...
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Equity Ratio Long Term
376 words
Analysis by a Long Term Creditor The interest a
long term creditor is currently receiving is 5. 6
%. A long term creditor could receive as much as
22. 7 % working somewhere else in the same
industry. So, currently the industrial average is
giving 17. 1 % more interest than working Cameco
Corporation, which is quite a big difference. The
risk involved in receiving your interest every
year from Cameco Corporation is very high. The
number of times interest earned for Cameco
Corporation in 1996 was ...
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Mutual Funds Stock Market
1,500 words
Thesis: There are good and bad aspects of both
Index and Mutual Funds, however whichever one is
better for any particular person depends on his /
her situation and willingness to wait certain
times, or pay certain fee s. Whether money is be
the root cause of evil or not, I don t know. What
I do know it that since the dawn of man, the
concept of currency had been intimately
intertwined with human society. It helps form the
basis of governments, and most laws. The world
stock market is where these...
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Mutual Funds Investment Decisions
668 words
The Company AIM Funds is one of the nations
largest and most successful mutual fund companies.
Over the years, such funds as AIM Weingarten Fund,
AIM Constellation Fund, and AIM Value Fund have
become household words for millions of investors.
AIM funds are sold through financial advisors as a
reflection of the companys belief that investors
can benefit significantly from having the advice
and guidance of a professional who can create
investment plans to meet the individual needs of
their client...
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