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A quantitative equity strategy based on factors formed by industries in the S&P500
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This paper presents and simulates a long-short market-neutral quantitative equity trading strategy for US stocks. First, economic intuition and academic researches for which this trading strategy is based upon will be ...
Historical perspective of innovation in electronic payment instruments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Electronic Payment Instruments have seen unprecedented innovation in the past XX-th century. Most of this innovation was made possible by advances in information and communication technology. Advances in ICT paired with ...
Design and implementation of multi-asset funds in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
India, over the past decade, has steadily emerged as a center of attractive investment opportunities, owing to high GDP growth rates and rising levels of per capita income. Asset management in India is going through a ...
The affordability of China's residential real estate market and opportunities for property developers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
China has the largest housing market in the world and the property market continues to advance at an astonishing pace. In 2009, 22.2% of China's RMB 19.3 trillion fixed asset investment and 17.9% of foreign direct investment ...
Past, present and future evolution of oil prices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis reviews how oil price has evolved throughout time since it was discovered and commercially exploited in 1859 in Pennsylvania. Rather than a pure economic study, this thesis illustrates how major historic and ...
Exploring online retailing strategies : case studies of leading firms in the U.S. and China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Online retailing has been a significant part of people's daily life. Research shows that 85% of internet users have purchased online. In China, with the increased penetration rate of internet and adoption of online payment, ...
Identifying disruptive customers to nurture for long-term growth
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
A subset of customers in a service-company's portfolio, seem unattractive to serve. Such customers neither align with the core of the company's business nor do they represent a straight-forward investment opportunity that ...
The strategic importance of the "stakeholder approach" in the service industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
In countries with a market economy it is generally agreed that companies should pursue economic profitability to survive and to provide shareholders with maximal value. The view is generally summarized as "the shareholder ...
Management innovations at outstanding information technology companies and implications for China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Over the past few decades, information technology has fundamentally changed the way we work as a society. Managers often forget that management itself also needs to change along with our evolving society. It is an opportunity, ...
Strategies for decommoditizing and internationalizing a prepaid business unit
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This thesis aims to establish a new strategy for a Brazilian IT service company to leverage the operation of its prepaid business unit in Brazil and overseas. The work starts using the Delta Model to segment the customers, ...