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Ebook Financial News Analysis for Intelligent Portfolio Management

Submitted by wulan on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 03:46

An important premise in financial investing is that there must be a reasonable amount of validated information before a security is considered from an investment standpoint. Given the requirements of having various expertise and the difficulties in locating and evaluating information sources, financial portfolio management has to date carried out by investment firms that employ teams of specialists for finding, filtering and evaluating relevant information. It has primarily focused on the portfolio selection process (i.e., asset allocation) as opposed to portfolio monitoring the ongoing, continuous, daily provision of an up-to-date financial picture of an existing portfolio.

In portfolio management, it is important for an investor to monitor his or her portfolio regularly in addition to asset allocation, because it must be determined whether or not the return results of the portfolio meet the expectations of the investor, or whether there is a need to change the strategic asset allocation. The monitoring process also provides comprehensive, detailed information on the investment positions of the investor. The result of the controlling monitoring might require changes in the asset allocation in order to realign the long-term asset allocation strategy. It is important to note that portfolio management, as an investment process, is not a static, but a dynamic one, where you should regularly adapt your decisions to changes in the market and in your own circumstances.

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Ebook Volatility And Growth: Credit Constraints And Productivity-Enhancing Investment

Submitted by wulan on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 07:36

The modern theory of business cycles gives a central position to productivity shocks and the role of financial markets in the propagation of these shocks; but it takes the entire productivity process as exogenous. The modern theory of growth, on the other hand, gives a central position to endogenous productivity growth and the role of financial markets in the growth process; but it focuses on trends, largely ignoring shocks and cycles.

The goal of this paper is to build a bridge between the two approaches; to propose and, in a limited way, test a theory of endogenous productivity growth that gives a central position to uncertainty. At the heart of our theory is a propagation mechanism how exogenous shocks generate endogenous productivity movements and its interaction with financial markets.

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Ebook Low income diet and health – next steps

Submitted by antoq on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 04:55

This paper has been prepared to stimulate discussion at the FSA stakeholder meeting on diet and low income, following publication of the Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey (LIDNS). The emphasis is on the next steps to be taken by the FSA to tackle inequalities and the links between food supplies,diets and health outcomes for people living on a low income, but other issues, such as food safety and hygiene, and the responsibilities of other government departments as well as non-governmental organisations should also be considered.

The paper uses the term nutrition insecurity as a term to describe the failure to meet the recommended dietary guidelines, and is intended to be used in the context of current concerns about the need for action to improve nutrition and reduce obesity for both low income groups and the wider population. The LIDNS survey and other NDNS surveys have shown that a failure to meet the recommended dietary guidelines extends across a broad range of lower and middle income households, suggesting that policies targeted only at lower income groups may be helpful but that ‘upstream’ measures may be needed to reduce nutrition insecurity – i.e. to remove barriers to achieving healthy diets.

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