Investment Management


  • The Knowledge You Need to Start This (New) Investment Game
    This is the situation. You are in front of a new investment decision. You have asked Mr Knowsit over there, you consult your best friend, you inform in a indirect way about a certain issue – "Why do you ask," is the response and at the end, loaded with information and opinions you have gathered, you think by yourself: "I do it anyway". Knowledge management is a process we are not always aware of, but knowledge issue show up when ever you enter u Read More...
  • Asset Management
    Asset management is the method that a company uses to track fixed assets like factory equipment, desks and chairs, computers, even buildings. Although the exact details of the task varies widely from company to company, asset management often includes tracking the physical location of assets, managing demand for scarce resources, and accounting tasks such as amortization. The most common usage of the phrase asset management is in terms of the fi Read More...
  • Investment Management Training
    In the early period of development of finance as a profession, i.e., until the early 1950s, investment management was primarily concerned with the procurement of funds. The subject matter was mainly confined to financial problems arising during episodic events like incorporation, merger, consolidation and reorganization. Thus, the traditional role of the investment manager was to raise externally the funds required by joint stock companies. The i Read More...
  • Investment Management Firms
    When talking about investment management firms, it is very important to understand profit maximization and wealth maximization. According to the objective of profit maximization, the ultimate goal of a business enterprise is to maximize its profits. All the efforts of the organization are to be directed to achieve this goal. The profit maximization objective is justified, as business is conducted for earning profit. When profit earning is the aim Read More...
  • Investment Portfolio Management
    A portfolio is simply a combination of assets. Portfolio theory shows how an investor can reach his optimal portfolio position. Portfolio theory is based on the assumption that the utility of the investor is a function of two factors: mean return and variance (or its square root, the standard deviation) of return. Hence it is also referred to as the mean-variance portfolio theory, or two-parameter portfolio theory. The investor is assumed to pref Read More...