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... Markets, the fourth chapter­ , covers the importance of understanding the ecosystem and its needs Building on existing research on business ecosystems, Girish Prabhu makes a case for needs analysis ... Markets dire warnings from population scientists that were issued several decades ago More consistent with those negative assessments are a second observation that economists make from this data, ... foundation for its success in IT software and business process Â� utsourcing o (BPO) services • Growing middle class: According to a Goldman Sachs report, the middle classes in the BRIC economies, that...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 00:55

... Scorecards Spreadsheets IM/chat Newspapers Financial reports Documents Meetings Email Portals Business books Slide decks Webcasts Presentations RSS feeds Project plans Intranet Blogs Dashboards ... Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including ... Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period It depicts Gartner s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 14:20

... Rate Risk 378 Swap Spreads 378 Major Uses of Interest Rate Swaps 381 Asset Swap Spreads and Asset Swaps 382 TRADING CASE STUDY: 30-Year FNMA Asset Swap Spreads 386 On the Credit Risk of Swap Agreements ... services for our customers’ professional and personal knowledge and understanding The Wiley Finance series contains books written specifically for finance and investment professionals as well as sophisticated ... also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is not responsible for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 05:20

... level of asset swap spreads or may compare the asset swap spreads of several securities as part of a rich-cheap analysis Chapters through extracted discount factors at six-month intervals from the ... these errors Thus, a RMSE of basis points means that ±3 basis points correspond to a 1-standard deviation error of the fit, ±6 basis points correspond to a 2-standard deviation error, and so on ... (4.17) Solving, the true yield is 3.488%, or 1.7 basis points below the conventional yield Professional investors care about this difference The lesson for this section, however, is that forcing semiannual...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 05:20

... there are several reasons fixed income professionals must understand these measures First, these measures of price sensitivity are simple to compute, easy to understand, and, in many situations, perfectly ... used only for securities with fixed cash flows Second, the assumption of parallel yield shifts is not a particularly good one and, at times, is internally inconsistent Despite these weaknesses, ... is to compute sensitivity measures for all the individual securities and then to use the rules of this section to compute portfolio sensitivity measures A price or measure of sensitivity for security...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 05:20

... characteristic 143 Bucket Shifts and Exposures makes it reasonable to hedge against possible changes in many small segments of the term structure While hedging against these many possible shifts requires ... history, yields of individual issues may be used In swap markets this problem does not arise because data series are usually for new par swaps of fixed maturities Second, in bond markets, it is important ... This discussion, therefore, is a very simple example of a growing swap book that is managed so as to have, in some sense, no outright interest rate exposure TABLE 7.4 Bucket Exposures for a Position...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 05:20

... is 126×√1/12 or 36.4 basis points Representing this process with a tree is not quite so straightforward as 234 THE ART OF TERM STRUCTURE MODELS: DRIFT the simpler processes described previously ... derivative securities for the purpose of making markets or for proprietary trading For these purposes many practitioners wish to assume that some set of underlying securities is priced fairly For example, ... adding, for example, 20 basis points to each of these rates is equivalent to assuming that investors demand an extra 20 basis points for each year of modified duration risk Assuming this is indeed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 05:20

... market prices This issue will be discussed in the last section of this chapter This is the DV01 of the fixed side of the swap only See Chapter 18 TRADING CASE STUDY: Trading 2s- 5s- 1 0s in Swaps with ... CLOSED-FORM SOLUTIONS FOR SPOT RATES This appendix lists formulas for spot rates in various models mentioned in Chapters 11 and 12 These allow one to understand and experiment with the relationships ... for the cases of the constant, square root, and proportional specifications For comparison purposes, the values of σ in the three cases are set so that basis point volatility equals 100 at a short...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 05:20

... data on special spreads indicates that special spreads for reopened issues not get as wide as special spreads of new issues In any case, as time passes after an auction, Liquidity Premiums of Recent ... respectively These issues trade somewhat special because some traders short these issues instead of the most recent issues The extent to which special repo rates are below GC is entirely a question ... new issue until it seasons and is distributed to buy-and-hold investors The extra liquidity of newly issued Treasuries makes them ideal candidates not only for long positions but for short positions...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 05:20

... swap spread of the bond in this example is 15 basis points.4 The next section discusses the reasonableness of an asset swap spread of 15 basis points for the FNMA security For now, however, assume ... the text Asset Swap Spreads and Asset Swaps 383 flows by swap rates plus that spread gives the bond price Asset swap spreads are, for the most part, a measure of a bond s credit risk relative ... steps through is literally an asset swap since the fixed cash flows not cancel But these positions are similar in spirit to asset swaps in that they make or lose money with changes in asset swap spreads...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 05:20

... FUTURES changing spot yields assumes that forward yields and repo rates move in parallel Which of these assumptions is more useful for hedging is an empirical question in which historical analysis ... and less subject to numerical error, but each user must decide if a model with a closed-form solution is suitable for the purpose at hand As discussed in Part Three, pricing models usually assume ... raises their net basis Thus, the net basis of a bond close to CTD behaves like a straddle on rates or prices Maintaining the assumption of parallel shifts of forward yields, Figure 20.6 graphs...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 05:20

... 25 basis points the story works in reverse MBS duration rises, investors who hedge find themselves with too much duration, they pay in swaps, swap rates rise relative to Treasuries, and swap spreads ... fall, POs outperform 30-year Treasuries b When interest rates rise by 100 basis points, mortgage passthroughs fall by about 7% When interest rates fall by 100 basis points, pass-throughs rise by ... bonds or pass-throughs that receive principal, when exercise or prepayments cause interest payments to stop or slow the IO gets nothing Once again, its cash flows simply vanish This effect swamps...

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... người khác ♥ Just for today I will raise the spirits of someone who is discouraged My smile, my words, my expression of support, can make the difference to someone who is wresthing with life Ngày ... rằng, khó khăn phần s ng chúng tồn để chinh phục vượt qua ♥ Just for today I will find ways to share the burden of another person I will something nice for someone, but I will it secretly I will ... s nh với người khác Tôi thật may mắn ♥ Just for today I will defy every obstacle that appears on my way trusting I will succeed I understand that, difficulties are a part of the life and are born...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2014, 14:40

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Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... sources of conflicts of interest References Martinez-Lavin M: Biology and therapy of fibromyalgia: Stress, the stress response system, and fibromyalgia Arthritis Res Ther 2007, 9:216 Fontenele ... increased vascular resistance during static handgrip exercise in postural tachycardia syndrome Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2007, in press Loevinger BL, Muller D, Alonso C, Coe CL: Metabolic syndrome ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Félix and Fontenele Competing interests The authors cite their own work on the subject that is currently in press There are no potential sources of conflicts of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... he spoke in nontechnical terms suitable for his audience of business professionals, professors, teachers, and students He illustrates theory with homespun examples He explains simple truths of ... provide for themselves much better than the government possibly could This in essence is the message of Professor Ludwig von Mises in this small volume Professor Mises (1881-1973) was one of ... both for today and tomorrow, is very simple Government should protect and defend against domestic and foreign aggression the lives and property of the persons under its jurisdiction, settle disputes...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 22:21

... industry—depends on the industry he operates and on the customers he serves This "king" must stay in the good graces of his subjects, the consumers; he loses his "kingdom" as soon as he is no ... of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprise loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers Fifty or sixty years ago it was said in almost all capitalist countries that ... of the masses This is the fundamental principle of capitalism as it exists today in all of those countries in which there is a highly developed system of mass production: Big business, the target...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 22:21

... course he has to pay for his mistakes If we say the consumer is supreme or that the consumer is sovereign, we not say that the consumer is free from faults, that the consumer is a man who always ... heard are the orders given to the boss by his customers The fact is that, under the capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers The sovereign is not the state, it is the people And ... The real bosses in the economic system are the consumers And if the consumers stop patronizing a branch of business, these businessmen are either forced to abandon their eminent position in the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 22:21