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chart of the comparison of the indexed performance since October 2006 to October 2016. From the picture, it is obvious that VNQ achieved a return of 166.26% which was similar with benchmarks of FM (MSCI US REIT TR) return of 162.22% and TI (S&P U.S.Real Estate Investment Trust TR) return of 160.91%, meanwhile, it was higher than the rest benchmarks of RFI (US Treasury Bills 3 Months TR) and LGC (Lipper Global Equity Sector Real Est US). However, the manager said indexed performance is considered only as a benchmark which does not illustrated any particular investment. The following table presents cumulative performance compared with 4 benchmarks (figures are come from Eikon Quantitative Analysis). Name 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years Since Inception Vanguard REIT Index Fund;ETF 6.71 33.67 70.80 66.26 186.60 FM-MSCI US REIT TR 6.81 34.09 71.52 62.22 825.15 TI-S&P U.S. Real Estate Investment Trust TR 6.62 33.68 71.17 60.91 RFI-US Treasury Bills 3 Months TR 0.26 0.33 0.46 7.49 1716.21 LGC-Lipper Global Equity Sector Real Est US 6.45 29.05 61.07 42.52 763.43 From the table, it is clearly that this exchange traded fund did not make much better performance among these 5 years, just followed the first 2 benchmarks of FM-MSCI US REIT TR and TI-S&P U.S. Real Estate Investment Trust TR, and the differences were below 1%. By contrast, if pursuing the previous figures over 5 to 10 years, VNQ outperformed than all benchmarks but the overall figures were lower than 5 years. In…

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During this course we learned about the market and what it is. We concluded that in theory the market it is all stocks that are trading at all times. In order to measure the market experts use The Dow Jones and The S&P 500 to measure how the overall market is doing. Both the Dow Jones and The S&P 500 are samples of stocks. The Dow Jones is a smaller sample of stocks that covers about 30 very large companies while the S&P does the same except for it covers 500 companies. For this question I…

lack diversity in there higher ranks of leadership. Women make up 24 of the 500 CEOs on the fortune 500 hundred companies. While most statistics state that women make up a substantial portion of the workforce and even middle management, they fail to reach the highest ranks of an organization. There are several barriers which prevent women from moving into higher management. Some of this may be due to men who are intimidated by women and do not believe they should be in high ranking positions.…

evaluated to see if the training has been retained. To achieve this, employees will undergo three separate evaluations. Employees will receive a pretest (before training), a posttest (after training), and a skill-based test (observations made by managers, and peers, on performance). These three tests will give cognitive, results, and return on investments based outcomes (Noe, 2005). “Cognitive outcomes measure what knowledge trainees learned in the program” (Noe, 2005, p. 201). The cognitive and…

of depression and war” (Davies, p. 361). In today’s society, this concept of organized youth sports has become somewhat corrupted in my opinion. Less of the focus is on children being active and having fun, which were the original intentions. Overall, I think that youth sports are a great thing for children, but I also think that it can be taken too far sometimes and some parents put too much…

holding women back from fairly competing with men. Ever since the modern business has formed women have been subjected to lower wages and lack of vertical mobility within companies. It is no hidden fact that for a long time the work place lacks in equality and favors men over women. If one takes a look at the average salaries amongst men and women workers there is a clear gap also known as the “wage gap” and this has been around primarily since the beginning of the business world. Many have…

saw its revenues increase from $29 million to $290 million from 1984 to 1987. Best Buy changed its logo to the yellow tag in 1987, and in 1989 its stores adopted a new “grab-and-go” store format called Concept II. The new stores consisted of well-stocked showrooms with self-help information so that people could make their product selections independently and check out in a single stop. This change reduced Best Buy’s employment costs by one-third, which compensated for the corresponding…

The early marketing plans for NASCAR was to mix numerous marketing resource to create a branding strategy, they joined with other companies to share marketing changes to the jumpsuits and cars started having logos on them from corporations that NASCAR had made agreements with. They formed a marketing agreement with even though they were partners with different companies; they were successful for the NASCAR brand and launched campaigns that were popular around the world (Ferrell & Hartline,…

Geographic Location The College of New Jersey is located in the Ewing Township, a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey. The neighborhoods can be traced back as far as the 1500’s by the Lenape tribe and was first settled by Europeans in the early 17th century by William Green, whose farmhouse is part of the college campus. TCNJ is home to over 289 colonial acres, which includes attractions, such as The Benjamin Temple House and Mountain View Golf Course. The surrounding Ewing has direct access to…