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... anticipated that catches management unprepared. A contingency plan should address such occurrences. Natural disasters are a primary contingency that companies plan for. Like manmade situations, these ... planning is a big picture issue. This is a disaster plan for a business-created crisis that could shut down your company for example, a labor strike in a plant that was not expected or anticipated ... a minimum of two activities: 1. Quarterly checks 2. An annual update The Practical Guidelines for Building a Business Plan in Five Pages T his chapter explains the five major elements that make...

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... Module 2: Strategies for Administering a Windows 2000 Network Creating a Taskpad Create and Configure a Taskpad Create and Configure a Taskpad Create and Configure a Taskpad Create a customized ... Network ? Setting Up Taskpads ? What Is a Taskpad? ? Creating a Taskpad ? Creating Tasks in a Taskpad A taskpad is an administrative tool that you set up for novice administrators and ... console Create a customized MMC console Create a taskpad Create a taskpad Configure a task in the taskpad Configure a task in the taskpad Customize the taskpad view Customize the taskpad view Creating...

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... Guangzhou. Several multina- tional companies are already located in the region. ey are famil- iar with business practices in the Guangzhou area and already have a network of local suppliers and customers. ... Early Innovation environment Set up an office to assist companies with all legal, administrative, and financing issues. Such an office should track all relevant laws and regulations, all available ... outlines the actions that GDD should take to capi- talize on its assets and improve its ability to attract and retain high- technology companies. GDD’s Assets GDD and the Guangzhou area have a number...

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... Automatic Thesaurus Discovery. Kluwer. Jaroslava Hlav a cov a and Pavel Rychl´y. 1999. Dispersion of words in a language corpus. In Proc. TSD (Text Speech Dialogue), pages 321–324. Adam Kilgarriff, ... Center of basic re- search LC536 and in the National Research Pro- gramme II project 2C06009. 6 A word sketch is a one-page corpus-derived account of a word’s grammatical and collocation behaviour. 7 The ... distribution. All the information is available. We can deter- mine, in a large corpus such as the BNC, for each noun lemma with more than (say) fifty occurrences, what percentage is plural. We present...

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... companies arecalled “growth stocks,” and those ofbad companies arecalled“value stocks.” Let’s considerfor a moment, Wal-Martand Kmart. The formeris finan- cially healthyand universallyadmired, ... withlegendary management, a steadily growing stream of earnings, and a hugepileof cash on hand for emergencies. The latterisasick puppy, having recently declaredbankruptcy due to marginal financialresources ... measure short-term risk by calculating something statisticians call a “standard deviation” (SD). This can be thought about as the degree of “scatter” of a series of values about the average. For...

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... the case of companies that are buying back their shares. A company that has grown its earnings by 5% per year and annually buys back 5% of its outstanding shares will appreciate by 10% per year, ... observers, and unfortu- nately, this is eventually what happened. Third, and most important, the real beauty of the above formulas is that they can be rearranged to calculate the market’s expected ... decidethat a weekinParis nowis worth ten weeksadecade fromnow,that implies a much high- erDRof 25.9%. This isthesame as saying that thepresent value of a weekinParis in a decade has cheapened. Again,an...

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... was the result of a massive collaborative effort to collect and analyze stock and bond prices. As researchers began to examine the aggregate performance of stocks and bonds, it was only natural ... each year. This is the best-case scenario for active- ly managed mutual funds—turn your portfolio over once a year, and you might—just might—match the index. And that’s before taxes. In a taxable ... explained by the laws of chance. Are we in Randomovia yet? Almost. If we actually were in Randomovia, we would find that above-average performance does not The Market Is Smarter Than You Are 79 Figure...

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... value each year as capital gains. Fortunately, there are now “tax-efficient” index funds designed for taxable accounts, which are generally able to avoid capital gains. In 1999, Vanguard created ... unnecessary capital gains and resultant taxes. For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to pay the tax and investment consequences of a bad manager. Why Can’t I Just Buy and Hold ... expense are least for large-cap funds, intermediate for small-cap and foreign funds, and greatest for emerging market funds. They are tabulated in Table 3-1. 94 The Four Pillars of Investing 500 dramatically...

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... the S&P 500 was less than infla- tion—that is, it had a negative real return—whereas the EAFE beat inflation handily. You’ll also see that the EAFE beat the S&P 500 by a similar margin ... large stocks. Small companies tend to be insubstantial and fragile. More importantly, they are thinly traded—relatively few shares change hands during an average day, and in a general downturn, a few moti- vated ... can swallow. So what’s a reasonable foreign allocation? Certainly less than 50% of your stock pool. For starters, foreign stocks are more volatile, in gen- eral, than domestic stocks on a year-by-year...

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... the roads and public safety made travel a danger- ous, slow, and extremely uncomfortable endeavor. At a stroke, the railroads made overland travel cheap, safe, rapid, and relatively comfortable. ... financial chaos of Paris arrived a most extraordinary Scotsman: John Law. After escaping the hangman for killing a man in a 1694 duel, he studied the banking system in Amsterdam and even- tually ... South Sea episode haunted the English capital markets for nearly two centuries thereafter. The Bubble Act, which had actually precipitated the collapse, required a parlia- mentary charter for all...

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... gravitational equation from a falling apple and Darwin’s extrapolating the theory of evolution from observ- ing gardeners and farmers select for favorable plant characteristics are two spectacular ... should have a firm asset allocation pol- icy in place. What separates the professional from the amateur are two things: First, the knowledge that brutal bear markets are a fact of life and that there ... maladaptive behaviors will corrode your wealth as surely as a torrential rain strips an unplanted hillside. Misbehavior 179 remaining favorites more advantageous than they should be. After all, it...

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... financial and economic data to forecast market direction. If we have learned any- thing over the past 70 years from the likes of Cowles, Fama, Graham, and Harvey, it’s that this is a fool’s errand. ... company that at all times maintains an invento- ry of the stock or bond, to allow for smooth trading. In many cases, the broker is acting as an “agent,” which means that he and his company are ... million. At that point, the fund’s performance turned around, and it gradually began to accumulate assets again, finally reaching the $1 billion mark in 1998. In that year, it beat the S&P 500 by...

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... economic impact as largeasthat of financialjournalism. Just as many automobilepur- chasers will buy on the basisof a favorable reviewinCar and Driver,aglowing money manager storycanmove vast amounts ... analysts, and hedge fund managers.) Atthe very top of the financialjournalismheap areaselect num- ber of writers whoare so popular and craftprose so well that they canget away with a regular output ... Mutual Fund 211 2. Do not chase the performance of active managers. Not only does past performance not predict future manager performance, but excellent performance leads to the rapid accumulation...

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