Ker‚ P. and Manning‚ P. 2012‚ ‘Taxes a drag on coal‚ Kloppers warns investors’‚ Sydney Morning Herald‚ 24 August‚ viewed 1 September 2012‚ Summary Ker and Manning’s (2012) article discusses the implications faced by BHP Billiton‚ as a result of the Australian carbon and mining taxes which has caused foreign investors to substantially decrease their investment into the Australian coal industry‚ that has resulted in the delay of the expansion of Olympic Dam mine. This article reflects the political
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1 Factor Models The Markowitz mean-variance framework requires having access to many parameters: If there are n risky assets‚ with rates of return ri ‚ i = 1‚ 2‚ . . . ‚ n‚ then we must know 2 all the n means (ri )‚ n variances (σi ) and n(n − 1)/2 covariances (σij ) for a total of 2n + n(n − 1)/2 parameters. If for example n = 100 we would need 4750 parameters‚ and if n = 1000 we would need 501‚ 500 parameters! At best we could try to estimate these‚ but how? In fact‚ it is easy to see
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[pic] School of Management Studies Finance Advanced Topics [BUS4083W] Corporate Finance Test 23 September 2010 Time Allocation: 120 minutes Total Mark Allocation: 90 marks Case Study: Anglo American On the 20th of February 2009‚ Anglo American announced that it would cut 11% of its work force and suspend its share buyback and dividend in the face of a poor economic outlook marked by "unprecedented" uncertainty. The miner said it was reducing its headcount by
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of this paper will derive the validity of the Fama and French (FF) model and the efficiency of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). The comparison of the Fama and French Model and CAPM (Sharpe‚ 1964 & Lintner‚ 1965) uses real time data of stock market to practise its efficacy. The implication of the function in realistic conditions would justify the utility of the CAPM theory. The theory suggests that the expected return demanded by investors on a risky asset depends on the risk-free rate of interest
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asset pricing model (CAPM) for researchers and practitioners. Markowitz (1952) argued that investors should be concerned with holding efficient portfolios‚ that is‚ a portfolio offering the highest expected return for each level of risk. Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965) took Markowitz’s work one step further to develop the CAPM to explain the relationship between systematic risk and expected return in financial markets. The CAPM is denoted by the following equation: The CAPM is used to determine
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and consumer industries and analyses BHP Billiton Limited and Woolworths Limited. Variables affecting the Australian economy are inflation and interest rates; the gross domestic product; the exchange rate; and economic risks. The metal and mining industry is the largest sector in Australia and the consumer industry is the third largest sector. The present value of the dividend model and the present value of the operating free cash flow were used to evaluate BHP Billiton Limited and Woolworths Limited
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In a world where non-linearity and randomness are the norm‚ the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is widely accepted despite it being a linear model‚ and this is probably due to the simplicity of the model and its pre-computer age birth (see equation below). A well recognized and utilized metric in finance is beta (β)‚ which is the slope in the linear CAPM. To derive β one simply plots the returns (capital gains plus dividend yields) of an individual stock (y-axis) against the returns of a well
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ensuring you disclose: * Student number‚ * Student name (printed); and * Signature1. Background Your friend‚ John‚ recently acquired some shares in BHP Billiton an Australian publicly listed company in 2010. John has no accounting knowledge and is somewhat confused as to the type of financial information he needs from the BHP Billiton’s 2011 Financial Statements to enable him to determine the progress of the company in which he has invested. Required Prepare an explanation for John
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BHP billinton BHP billinton 1>Introduction BHP Billiton is one of the largest diversified mining and natural resources companies in the world. According to the data provided by Google Finance‚ BHP is worth nearly $174 billion as of September 4‚ 2009 (see bibliography‚ BHP Billiton (ADR)‚ Google Finance). The revenues earned by the group in the fiscal year ending June 2009 BHPre more than $50 billion (see bibliography‚ BHP Billiton Fundamentals‚ LondonStockExchange.com)‚ which is higher than
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discussing about is BHP Billiton and Battersea Dogs and Cats home. The first business that I will be discussing about is BHP Billiton and how they have organised their business.BHP Billiton is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining‚ metals and petroleum company headquarter in Melbourne. BHP Billiton is the world’s largest mining company measured by 2013 revenue. It was created in 2001 through the merger of the Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited. The first way BHP Billiton is divided
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