M&A and green field investment (GFI) are very important methods of company growth. Each of the investment ways could bring different outstanding achievement and development of company, so it is very important to choose the way of investment. This paper discusses the boundary of M&A and green field investment both in external and internal levels, and then uses power industry data to build a deci...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’) and its staff (‘‘Commission staff’’ or ‘‘staff’’) are reviewing interpretive issues under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (‘‘Investment Company Act’’ or ‘‘Act’’) relating to the status under the Act of companies that are engaged in the business of acquiring mortgages and mortgage-related instruments and that rely on the exclusion from t...

In this paper we develop a framework for optimal investment decisions for insurance companies under unhedgeable risk. The perspective that we choose is from an insurance company that tries to maximise the stream of dividends paid to its shareholders. The policy instruments that the company has are the dividend policy and the investment policy. The insurance company can continue to pay dividends...

this research was conducted to investigate the factors contributing to thefailure in the forestry and rangeland by-product cooperative companies in lorestanprovince, iran. a descriptive-correlative research design was used. the statisticalpopulations were 1100 people divided into two groups of experts from natural resourceagency in lorestan province and members of cooperative companies. the sam...

abstract background: burnout is one of the most important problems that the employees encounter. many health problems arise due to burnout which is to be dealt with by the employees and the owners in the industry. among many different ways of dealing with this problem, herbal therapy seems to be a promising solution. the present study intended to investigate the effect of rosmarinus officinalis...

In a defined contribution pension plan, employees make the investment decisions since they ultimately bear the investment risks. It has been shown empirically that, whenever the firm’s own stock is one of the available assets, many employees invest a significant fraction of their discretionary contributions in the stock of their employer. Moreover, the proportion allocated to own-company stock ...

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before making decisions about the investment and financing the companies. it is necessary to know how the value of a company is determined. in this article three valuation methods are discussed: 1) value dirver method. 2) free cash flow method 3) economic value added method. in these methods the factors affecting the value of companies such as operating rate of return, cost of capital. amount o...