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Investment Decision Making

2017
This chapter is a review of different approaches academics take to find right answers on the question how investors' community makes decisions on optimal portfolio of securities and how this process converges toward capital market equilibrium. Authors will try to reconcile the approaches that come from different intellectual traditions.
Aleksandar Šević, Srđan Marinković
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Financial appraisal and the IS/IT investment decision making process

Journal of Information Technology, 1998
This paper explores the techniques used by organizations to appraise Information Systems (IS)/Information Technology (IT) investments, and concentrates, in particular, on techniques of capital investment appraisal. We draw on relevant studies reported in both the accounting and finance, and the IS literature, which have addressed their usage.
Joan A. Ballantine, Stephanie J. Stray
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Emotional investments in surgical decision making

The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 2002
Gordon Smyth had a deep emotional investment in closed cavity surgery for cholesteatoma but, nonetheless, later acknowledged that he believed that he had been mistaken. Emotional investments create problems for all surgeons. Sometimes they have difficulty in recognizing that they need to change what they are doing.
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Investment Decision Making and Risk

Procedia Economics and Finance, 2013
AbstractThe aim of the paper is to present how investment decisions are made and what investment risk is, what role it has in the investment decision. The decision itself is a subjective act, but it is based on both subjective and objective factors.
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An Investment Decision Making System

Interfaces, 1975
This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a system for the management of pension funds by a large institutional investor. As a direct result of this management science based system, which had been in operation for over three years prior to this study, the jobs of security analysts, portfolio managers and the management of the ...
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Investment Motives and Decision-Making

1998
This chapter has two related themes. First, it examines the motives of business angels: why do they use some of their personal wealth to invest in unquoted companies? Investing in unquoted SMEs differs in a variety of respects from most other forms of investment open to private investors.
Annareetta Lumme, Colin Mason, Markku Suomi   +2 more
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IS/IT project investment decision making

Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology. ICMIT 2000. 'Management in the 21st Century' (Cat. No.00EX457), 2002
IT/IS project evaluation is a notorious thorny issue, which puzzles researchers a lot. This paper attempts to propose a comprehensive approach to IT/IS project evaluation. This approach is based on the basis of some powerful systems thinking (SSM), well proven methodology (balance scorecard, and change management) and mature quantitative tool (AHP ...
null Qiu Fasheng, null Yeo Khim Teck
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Aristotle on Investment Decision Making

CFA Institute Conference Proceedings, 2005
In this age of inexpensive and abundant data, investors must remain mindful of the limitations of the data they are using for their investment decisions. Despite widespread problems with the quality, timeliness, and relevance of financial and economic data, many investors accept and react to these data at face value. Often, further analysis of the data
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Outsourcing Investment Decision Making

2014
As we have discussed, good governance exists when the board and investment committee are allowed to focus on issues that impact the long-term objectives of the fund, rather than being responsible for investment decisions. Part of good governance is simply acknowledging the fact that managing investable assets is a full-time job, and not some collateral
Michael Bunn, Zack Campbell
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Investment Decision-Making in Yugoslavia

1988
Investment decision-making in Yugoslavia has undergone many changes, directly connected with the development of the planning system. These changes have followed a firm dedication to strengthening a socialist and self-managed society, as well as responding to the problems arising in the course of Yugoslavia’s social and economic development. After 1945,
Jadranko Bendeković, Ivan Teodorović
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