Category: Finance

Linear Technology’s payout policy involves stock repurchase and dividend payout. Firms opt for payout dividends after a move from a high growth state to a mature or more stable state. The company has been repurchasing stocks, although employee compensation is sometimes done using stock options and profit sharing (Baker, & Berkley Wagonfeld, 2003). The market…

Behavioral Finance at JP Morgan Case Study Psychological and Social Biasness From the case study, there are several psychological and social biases that the investors are likely to show. The JP Morgan case depicts two central behavioral psychology, including overconfidence and loss of aversion. Overconfidence occurs when some investors overestimate the accuracy of the decision…

Martingale Assets Management What do you think of Martingale as a firm? Does it have an edge in investing? After reviewing the tables, data, and charts and the results of the investment strategies referred to as the MV, Martingale LP is successful and one of the assets investment firms. The system used in the organization…

Use stock market data to examine the stock market performance during Republican and Democratic presidencies. Report the raw as well as risk-adjusted performance of the stock market during the Republican and Democratic presidencies. Also, compute the risk measures to determine whether risk differences can explain the differences in the performance.  As indicated in the market…

Main Idea The main idea behind starting a new hedge fund is to group the financial capital that will strike towards the contrarian fiscal market. The idea is likely to work and be successful because the hedge fund has been provided with details in the trading strategies and the construction method that will be useful…