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1. beta is a measure of a security's or portfolio's volatility in comparison to the stock market as a whole. 2. "beta" i...

1. A passive fund is composed to track its benchmark (for example a large-cap fund might be benchmarked against the S&P 500 index) witho...

1. Index funds will tend to underperform active managers in strongly positive and strongly negative markets. 2. The argument is based on t...

1. In April The Financial Conduct Authority investigated how the financial system would cope in the event of a fund manager failure.  2. T...

1. When a company writes risks across a number of classes, it seems reasonable to anticipate that the values assessed to give a 75% likeliho...

1. The selection of the loss development tail factor is extremely important because it affects estimates for all accident years. 2. A mino...

1. In April 2017, The Actuary reported trade credit insurers paid £210m to businesses last year due to non-payment claims, the equivalent of...

1. Malaysia's economy is performing well in the region in terms of efficiency and business regulations despite modest GDP growth of 4.1 ...

1. Hedge funds trade securities in volumes that are a multiple of their traditional asset management counterparts. In addition, hedge funds...

1. Hedge funds are unregulated investment pools. They generally are more nimble and dynamic in their trading strategies than other investme...

1.  Malaysia is ranked number three in the world in the solar manufacturing industry with China at number one and Taiwan in second place. ...

ASSET LIABILITY MISMATCH IN BANKS SYSTEM 1. Mismatch occurs when the tenure of maturing loans do not match the tenure of the sources of fu...

1. A Manufacturing Risk Index assesses the, economic, technological and environmental risks in site selection for new manufacturing faciliti...

1. The Premium Allocation Approach (PAA) is a simplification of the Building Block Approach (BBA) to measuring insurance contract assets and...

1. Remeasuring after subsequent period. 2. Presentation in Financial Statement 3. Impact on Insurers (Life and General)

1. IFRS 17: Insurance Contracts will take effect on 1 January 2021.   2. The new standard will replace interim standard IFRS 4: Phase...

1.  Deutsche Bank reaches a $7.2 billion settlement over US mortgage-backed securities 2. Deutsche Bank Fined £163 million by FCA for Ant...

1. Although the weak ringgit has made Malaysia an inexpensive market for foreign investors, the country remained a resilient economy despit...

1. Businesses must understand the changing landscape and how it could affect their decisions on the location of manufacturing plants and co...

1. A brief overview of recent developments  that have influenced investors to build and expand operations in the region as foreign investors...