Investment objectives

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A technological solution to bundle trading is to provide an auction that allows buyers and sellers to trade any number of goods in any combination. For example, stock trading markets such as NYSE or Nasdaq are double auctions that clear individual assets one by one. On the other hand, investors usually hold their assets in a portfolio that consists of diverse assets, consistent with their investment objectives on the overall returns and values. Nevertheless, physical markets are unable to carry out unbundling emd rebundUng of assets offered and demanded in the market. 

Market professionals include the banks and specialist financial intermediaries mentioned above, firms that one would not automatically classify as investors, although they will also have an investment objective. Their time horizon will range from one day to the very long term. They include the proprietary trading desks of investment banks, as well as bond market makers in securities houses and banks who are providing a service to their customers. Proprietary traders will actively position themselves in the market in order to gain trading profit, for example, in response to their view on where they think interest rate levels are headed. These participants will trade direct with other market professionals and investors, or via brokers. Market makers or traders (also called dealers in the United States) are wholesalers in the bond markets they make two-way prices in selected bonds. Firms will not necessarily be active market makers in all types of bonds smaller firms often specialise in certain sectors. 

A good understanding of what makes up the portfolio and the benchmark will give an insight into how they will perform under different market scenarios and help the manager achieve their investment objectives. 

Every investor has to develop a portfolio strategy which will best suit his investment objectives. Portfolio strategies can be either active or passive. Passive portfolio strategy (often known as a buy-and-hold strategy) does not require additional inputs, such as return forecasting. Its main investment objective is to follow the performance of the benchmark index [5]. Passive strategy is the purest implementation of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) as it assumes that markets will be able to reflect all available information in the stock prices. 

In a free society, profitable companies pay their employees well, sustain a number of vendors, satisfy a number of customers, fulfill stockholders investment objectives, and pay taxes to local, state, and federal governments (actually companies collect taxes for governments, as only people actually pay taxes). Companies that are unprofitable and cannot meet their bills are eventually sold or liquidated. In any event, a great many people lose their jobs beside the manager, and the stockholders investment suffers or is lost altogether. This is the ultimate test of management. If you can t run your company to make money, you won t get to run your company for very long. 

We get closer to answering our initial question if we recognise that when we say A car is a system , this is an abbreviated mode of expression what we really mean is For our present purposes, we shall describe a car in the form of a system . There are many purposes for which it is not necessary to describe a car in the form of a system e.g. for the purpose of describing a car as an investment object, a traffic hazard, a greenhouse gas emitter, etc., in which case one or a few global parameters are adequate. But if we want to describe its functionality and... 

An investment in bonds, like any other investment you make, should be tailored to your investment goals, tolerance for risk, and other individual circumstances. By answering some fundamental questions and arming yourself with some basic investment perspective, you will be better able to make decisions and work with investment representatives or advisors to find the appropriate mix of securities to achieve your investment objectives. 

Investor s Checklist (Continued) What are my investment objectives ... 

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The development and improvement of scientific-technical level of NDT and TD means for safety issues is connected with the necessity to find additional investments that must be taken into account at the stage of new technogenic objects designing, when solving new arising problems in social, economic, ecological and medical safety. It is not accidental, that the expenses for safe nuclear power plants operation cover 50% of total sum for construction work capital investments. That is why the investments for NDT and TD have to cover 10% of total amount for development and manufacturing of any product. 

Option A has the lowest investment at risk, B has the highest rate of return on investment, and C has the highest return. In general, the objective would be to maximize either the rate of return or the return, within the limits of available investment funds. 

Objectives Maximize economic benefit, operate the plant at its maximum efficiency at all operation points Maximize economic benefit, operate the plant at its maximum efficiency at all operation points Optimize overall facilities design and investment... 

This brings us to what the real objectives behind P2 are about. Pollution prevention is a carefully plarmed investment aimed at reducing an enterprise s operating costs through the elimination of harmful pollution. A successful P2 activity is a win-win type of investment — that is, the company not only eliminates pollution at the source, but does so on the condition that, at the very least, the activity pays for itself and, more favorably, provides attractive financial returns. The re-engineering considered for the pollution reduction and/or elimination must meet a set of well-defined financial goals within the enterprise otherwise it is not a worthwhile P2 practice. 

The objective of the production process is to produce the right goods of the right quality and at the right price in order to generate a financial profit from the capital investment, but the plant layout fundamentally affects this objective. 

Now that we have dealt with most exist factors, lets see whether the process is profitable or not. A key factor in industry is profitability regardless of technical achievement Objective procedures to aid such assessment are based on the return on investment (ROI) as the criterion. 

Note that essentially each person has an investment of 1.5 when he starts. Thus the reader may forget the object and play the money game according to the rules given. For example, the element in the first row and second column shows that X who bid zero loses the object and therefore Y gets the object which is worth 3, thereby making a profit of 1.5. Since the matrix represents the payoff from Y to X we use —1.5 indicating that thereby X pays Y, i.e., he loses his investment. 

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