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Optimal portfolio allocation with real assets : a Finnish perspective
2017
Alternative market assets, i.e. those which are not part of the ''traditional'' financial assets, have become increasingly popular globally during the last decade. The purpose of this study is to examine the potential benefits of including real investment assets, specifically timberland and real estate holdings, for a investor investing to either domestic or international markets. Specifically the questions to be asked are: Do Finnish real investment assets offer diversification benefits in respect of increased risk-adjusted returns? What are the optimal asset allocations? The analyzed time-series for alternative investments represent quarterly total returns of average Finnish timberland an…
Gestión del cuerpo y planificación urbana: Desplazamiento de significado en la reivención de cuepos y ciudades
2020
Contemporary cities have administrations increasingly marked by urban planning guidelines that are guided by business and marketing and, to attract investments and tourists, implement strategies that aim to homogenize, spectacularize and control urban space. However, other experiences in the city potentially build new meaning to it, which would escape those strategically planned, creating alternative possibilities of uses, diverging from the way thar are predicted and proposed by the governmental power in their urban marketing strategies. The article discusses how the occupation of urban spaces by transvestites for prostitution may imply reflections on the role of norms of gender in the (re…
Finnish-Chinese intercultural negotiation : power positioning and search for common ground
2018
‘Rising China’ is a term that has come to refer to China’s march to being number one, the speed of its economic growth, and its investment around the world during last two decades. In Finland, government agencies have been established to promote investment, trade, and co-operation with China, while regional and local governments are also actively involved. Meanwhile, much of the world is now competing for the attention of China, so the power dynamic is tending to shift in favour of the Chinese. This developing context has been examined in previous studies primarily from the perspectives of politics, economics, and management studies. The overarching aim of this study is to investigate emerg…
THE INVESTMENT POLITICS AND THE DIVERSIFICATION OF FINANCING RESOURCES IN ROMANIA
2011
A priority for Romania is to maintain an high investment rate, higher than the one of the EU member states, because these countries modernized their energetic, transport and public utility infrastructures, they developed their educational and the public health systems, they reduced the technological and informational differences, decades ago. Through the investment politics, Romania will continue to attract foreign investments, whose annual average was remarkable. For the financing of the investments, a diversification of the internal and external resources is necessary. The internal resources are based on the development of the saving instruments: the development of the market for transact…
Los beneficios del mar: negocios e inversiones económicas de la oficialidad naval en el siglo XVIII
2019
Throughout the eighteenth century, the Spanish navy was extensively reformed and enhanced as a consequence of the new model of Monarchy that the Bourbons introduced. Among the measures adopted, it is remarkable the erection of the naval officers corps according to the needs and obligations that maritime war had in this century. This group becomes the paradigm of the new professionalization and new training approach, and its members had great relevance due to its great mobility around the empire and the power of the naval institution. This means that a part of the naval officers were placed in privileged positions and at the intersection of diverse political, social and economic networks. Th…
INCREASING COMPETITIVENESS AND JOBS THROUGH FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS
2013
After 3 years of collapse, foreign direct investments (FDI) have reached a minimum level of the last 9 years, in 2011, meaning 1, 94 billion Euros, below the 2003 level. In the first 10 months of 2012, foreign direct investments have reached a level of 1,27 billion Euros, surpassing the similar period last year, as the economic growth was centered around 0,5 %. At this time, foreign direct investments represent one third of the current account deficit. Romania is objectively reliant on foreign capital due to its low degree of internal saving. Investors have chosen the automotive industry in Romania, a sector deemed competitive, due to cheap labor force, large market and substantial state ai…
Ārvalstu tiešo investīciju ietekme uz Latvijas ekonomiku
2019
Bakalaura darba tēmas „Ārvalstu tiešo investīciju ietekme uz Latvijas ekonomiku” galvenais mērķis ir izpētīt ārvalstu tiešo investīciju vidi Latvijā un novērtet ĀTI ietekmi uz tādiem makroekonomiskeim faktoriem kā eksporta apjoms, nodarbinātība, bezdarbs, valsts nodokļu ieņēmumi. Balstoties uz statistiskiem datiem, tika novērtēts ārvalstu uzņēmumu eksporta īpatsvars kā daļa no kopēja eksporta apjoma Latvijā, kā arī novērtēti ārvalstu investoru nodokļu maksājumi Latvijas valsts budžetā. Veicot lineārās regresijas analīzi, tika izpētīta ĀTI ietekme uz Latvijas bezdarba līmeni un nodarbināto iedzīvotāju skaitu katrā nozarē. Analīzes ietvaros izmantoti statistikas dati par laika posmu no 2000. …
The Investment Performance of U.S. Islamic Mutual Funds
2020
Islamic investment funds have become increasingly important because of high demand from many investors, including those outside the Muslim investment community. This article compares the performance and risk sensitivity of Islamic mutual funds in the United States with that of their conventional peers. This article also analyzes the performance of Islamic funds, and compares this performance with that of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds. Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)-based methodology was used for the analysis. The results suggest that over the entire study period (1987&ndash
AN ANALYSIS ON THE FDI FLOWS FROM EMERGING ECONOMIES TO EUROPE AND THEIR IMPACT
2014
After a concise setting of the context (by emphasizing on the FDI flows dynamics at the beginning of the 21st century through the lens of: annual inward and outward FDI flows between 2001 and 2013; annual contribution to IFDI flows and, respectively, to OFDI flows by group of countries – developed versus developing and transition ones), the paper analyzes the emerging market economies and the dynamics of their FDI flows (by using contextualization and comparisons). The main aspects targeted are: the dynamics of the outward FDI flows from EMEs comparative to the dynamics of the global outward FDI flows on annual basis, and the evolution of the specific weight of OFDI flows from EMEs in globa…
THE NEW ECONOMY - A 360 DEGREE VIEW
2012
This paper is a review of the literature` mainstream on economic development, political views and the way new economic policies and measures are implemented through formal and informal channels, including here the North American lobby` system. As a solution resulted from this paper there are some forecasted directory views that could lead to a future linear development of the global economy and to a tempered glow in the global account, or between commercial trades of some countries.