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	Balloon Mortgage Note A balloon payment mortgage is a mortgage which does not fully amortize over the term of the note, thus leaving a balance due at maturity. The final payment is called a ba... Tags: Capital Structures, Finance, Home Business Online, Mortgages, Operational Accounting Company: Home Business Online Date: December 2007	Home Business Online
	Affidavit of Lost Stock Certificate Use this template to prepare an Affidavit of Lost Stock Certificate, which would sworn by a stockholder, attesting that a certificate representing shares in the company i... Tags: Certificate, Finance, FreeBusinessForms.com, Investment, Stock Company: FreeBusinessForms.com Date: December 2007	FreeBusinessForms.com
	401K Reallocation Planner This template helps you to reallocate your investments in your 401(k). Enter your current 401(k) investments by category. Then input the new percentages (new allocation %... Tags: 401(k), 401(k) Plan, Benefits, Finance, Human Resources Company: JaxWorks Date: September 2007	JaxWorks
	401K Planner This template forecasts the growth in value of your 401K plan and to project the monthly income you will receive from the plan upon retirement. It also compares the wealt... Tags: 401(k), Retirement, Operational Accounting, Investment, Income Company: JaxWorks Date: September 2007	JaxWorks
	Securitization Securitization is a means of raising finance secured on the back of identifiable and predictable cash flows derived from a particular set of assets. Almost any assets tha... Tags: Asset, Asset Management, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Securitization Company: AppLabs Date: May 2007	AppLabs
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	Investment Indicators This is a template for investment indicators. This tool gives year wise details about cash flow, dividends, shares.... Tags: Konica Company: Konica Minolta Holdings Date: April 2007	Konica Minolta Holdings
	Noncompetes And Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, And The Michigan Experiment Several scholars have documented the positive consequences of job-hopping by inventors, including knowledge spillovers and agglomeration and the concentration of spinoffs... Tags: Harvard College, Michigan, Mobility Company: President and Fellows of Harvard College Date: January 2007	President and Fellows of Harvard College
	Feeding the Hungry Investor: Alternatives Top the Menu of Attractive Investment Options Individual investors are hungry. They've got an appetite for strong returns and money to put where their mouths are. But, until few years back, the new markets for altern... Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Investor Company: Aequitas Capital Management Date: October 2006	Aequitas Capital Management
	Optimal Value And Growth Tilts In Long-Horizon Portfolios We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon who faces an investmen... Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Harvard College, Investment Company: President and Fellows of Harvard College Date: July 2006	President and Fellows of Harvard College
	Economic Development Strategy, Openness and Rural Poverty This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country's long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies... Tags: Management, Poverty, Strategy Company: United Nations University Date: April 2006	United Nations University
	Capital Budgeting and Economic Development in the Third World: The Case of Nigeria In this paper author investigates capital budgeting techniques for Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs), using a sample of Swedish firms, in order to shed light on whether t... Tags: Budgeting, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Financial Services, Foreign Direct Investment Company: EUROPEAN JOURNALS Date: March 2006	EUROPEAN JOURNALS
	Google Finance: Tapping A Rich Vein Of Investors Google unveiled a beta version of its new offering, Google Finance � a Web site that competes with veteran sites like Yahoo! Finance and MSN Money. While the site has som... Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Google Inc., Investor Company: Forrester Research Date: March 2006
	Project Finance as a Tool for Growth Whether expanding manufacturing facilities, implementing new processing capabilities, or leveraging existing assets in new markets, innovative financing is often at the c... Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, General Electric Co., Tool Company: General Electric Date: March 2006	General Electric
	Stock Returns in Mergers and Acquisitions This paper develops a real options framework to analyze the behavior of stock returns in mergers and acquisitions. In this framework, the timing and terms of takeovers ar... Tags: Acquisition, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Investment Company: University of Lausanne Date: March 2006	University of Lausanne
	Financial Reporting Quality and Investment Efficiency This paper studies the relation between financial reporting quality and investment efficiency on a sample of 49,543 firm-year observations between 1980 and 2003. Financia... Tags: Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Reporting Company: University of Pennsylvania Date: February 2006	University of Pennsylvania
	The Sustainability Yearbook 2006 The Sustainability Yearbook 2006 presents insights from SAM's annual sustainability assessment of over 1200 companies. It illustrates the methodology, relevant trends and... Tags: Sustainability Company: PricewaterhouseCoopers Date: January 2006	PricewaterhouseCoopers
	Avoiding Too Much Tax on Your Distributions If one is a retiree taking distributions from his IRA, he might assume that all of this income is taxable. But wait. Are there any after-tax contributions in the account?... Tags: Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Investopedia, Taxes Company: Investopedia Date: December 2005	Investopedia
	Is There a Future For Socially Responsible Property Investments? The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for a new niche in real estate investing, focused on "Socially responsible" property investments. Socially Responsib... Tags: Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Investment, University Of Arizona Company: University of Arizona Date: December 2005	University of Arizona
	Current Account Deficits in Industrial Countries: The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall? This paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in industrial countries to assess the validity of these concerns. The main findings are larger deficits take lo... Tags: Adjustment, Finance, Financial Accounting, Financing, Income Company: National Bureau of Economic Research Date: December 2005	National Bureau of Economic Research
	Downside Risk Economists have long recognized that investors care differently about downside losses versus upside gains. Agents who place greater weight on downside risk demand additio... Tags: Benefits, Downside, Finance, Human Resources, Investment Company: National Bureau of Economic Research Date: December 2005	National Bureau of Economic Research
	Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely... Tags: Business Operations, Research & Development, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Outsourcing, Offshoring Company: National Bureau of Economic Research Date: December 2005	National Bureau of Economic Research
	Can Financial Innovation Help to Explain the Reduced Volatility of Economic Activity? The stabilization of economic activity in the mid 1980s has received considerable attention. Research has focused primarily on the role played by milder economic shocks, ... Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Innovation Company: Federal Reserve Board Date: November 2005	Federal Reserve Board
	Balancing Act: Implementing an Integrated Strategy for Value Creation - The 2005 Value Creators Report This report analyzes five-year Total Shareholder Return (TSR) at leading global companies across twelve major industries. The report argues that the most successful globa... Tags: Boston Consulting Group Inc., Finance, Investment, Management, Strategy Company: The Boston Consulting Group Date: November 2005	The Boston Consulting Group
	Improving Return on Compensation Investment: A Financial Services Case Study: The Private Client Business In the private client business, compensation is not only the single largest cost, but also the most strategically important. Without industry-leading relationship manager... Tags: Aon Corp., Benefits, Client Business, Compensation, Financial Service Company: Aon Date: November 2005	Aon
	Motivations for Public Equity Offers: An International Perspective This paper examines the extent to which investment financing and market-timing explanations motivate public equity offers. It considers a sample of 16,958 initial public ... Tags: Equity, Equity Offer, Finance, Financial Services, Investment Company: National Bureau of Economic Research Date: November 2005	National Bureau of Economic Research
	An Information-Based Trade Off Between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment The paper develops a model of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and Foreign Portfolio Investments (FPI).The model describes an information-based trade off between direct i... Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Financial Accounting, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Company: National Bureau of Economic Research Date: November 2005	National Bureau of Economic Research
	Unobserved Actions of Mutual Funds Despite extensive disclosure requirements, mutual fund investors do not observe all actions of fund managers. This paper estimates the impact of unobserved actions on fun... Tags: Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Investment, Mutual Fund Company: National Bureau of Economic Research Date: November 2005	National Bureau of Economic Research
	Policing the Securities Market: An Overview of the SEC Shortly after the stock market crash of 1929, a regulatory body called the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) was born. Its goal was to restore investor confidence an... Tags: Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Investopedia, SEC Company: Investopedia Date: October 2005	Investopedia
	Preparing to Tap Your Income Stream While most people put a significant amount of time, effort and money into creating and nurturing a portfolio that will make retirement possible, few give much thought to ... Tags: Finance, Income, Investment, Investopedia, Operational Accounting Company: Investopedia Date: October 2005	Investopedia
	Reinventing Savings Bonds Savings Bonds have always served multiple objectives: funding the U. S. government, democratizing national financing, and enabling families to save. Increasingly, this la... Tags: Asset, Asset Management, Bond, Business Operations, Family Company: President and Fellows of Harvard College Date: October 2005	President and Fellows of Harvard College
	Firm Size and Capital Structure Firm size has become such a routine to use as a control variable in empirical corporate finance studies that it receives little to no discussion in most research papers e... Tags: Capital Structure, Capital Structures, Finance, Stanford University Company: Stanford University Date: October 2005	Stanford University
	Corporate Governance Development in UK and Continental Europe The potential onset of 'Corporate Governance Fatigue' is a risk for all publicly-quoted companies, which needs to be resisted strongly. The commitment of corporate Boards... Tags: Business Operations, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Watson Wyatt Worldwide Company: Watson Wyatt Worldwide Date: October 2005	Watson Wyatt Worldwide
	Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity How does rising foreign investment influence domestic economic activity? Firms whose foreign operations grow rapidly exhibit coincident rapid growth of domestic operation... Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Employee Compensation, Finance, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Company: National Bureau of Economic Research Date: October 2005	National Bureau of Economic Research
	Balance Point: Bringing Discipline to Investment in Innovation and Growth The paper highlights that not all technology companies are at the same stage in recognizing the need to improve their innovation investment processes?some are just beginn... Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Finance, Financial Accounting, Innovation, Investment Company: Ernst & Young Date: September 2005	Ernst & Young
	Do Managers Maximize Value?: A Study of Asset Acquisitions and Sales The purchase and sale of operating assets by firms provides a window to study whether managers maximize shareholder value. The paper presents a dynamic, value maximizing ... Tags: Asset, Asset Management, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Sales Company: University of Pennsylvania Date: September 2005	University of Pennsylvania
	Creating a Technology Hotbed in China: Lessons Learned From Silicon Valley and Israel Venture capital investment in China has increased at a blistering pace over the past several years, growing from just $418 million in 2002 to $1.27 billion in 2004. Four ... Tags: Business Model, China, Ernst & Young LLP, Finance, Financing Startups Company: Ernst & Young Date: September 2005	Ernst & Young
	Post-Transition Investment Behavior in Poland: A Sectoral Panel Analysis Analyzing and projecting the behavior of macroeconomic variables in new EU member states presents special challenges, owing to limited time series of the available data. ... Tags: Analysis, European Union, Finance, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), IMF Company: International Monetary Fund Date: September 2005	International Monetary Fund
	The Role of Investment Advisers in Client Class Action Claims What to do about class actions, settlements and related proofs of claim? This has been an issue begging for clarification for years and has been punctuated by recent clas... Tags: Advisor, Class Action, Finance, Investment Company: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Date: August 2005	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
	Time Well Spent?: An Economic Rationale for the Negotiation of Confidentiality Agreements During Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions In 2004, over $2 trillion were spent worldwide on over 30,000 Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) transactions. While the negotiation of confidentiality agreements represents ... Tags: Acquisition, Agreement, Duke University, Finance, Free Trade Company: Duke University Date: August 2005	Duke University
	Blended Value Investment and a Living Return Today's investors face a challenge and an opportunity. By changing how people think about value within an investment frame, they can adopt the concept of "blended value",... Tags: Brookings Institution, Finance, Investment Company: Brookings Institution Date: August 2005	Brookings Institution

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