Hedge

According to the excerpt from Empire of Illusion Chris Hedges claims that artifice is an essential skill for theatre. Hedges uses political leaders as an example for the propaganda to create intimacy within the people, but no longer have to be honest or sincere. I would say that Hedges is right and wrong at the same time . He does make points talking about political propaganda and how it draws intimacy towards people.When it comes to the narrative, his opinion on emotion is slightly false…

overtook the first step, ethical awareness, I’ll evaluate the ethical judgment phase. First, being that Shkreli has already valued profits over the public welfare, he must somehow justify the judgment in his decision-making. To do this, the former hedge fund manager utilizes moral disengagement to convince himself and, more importantly, the main stream media that his decision is indeed an ethical one. First, he exploits moral justification to claim that his action is somewhat beneficial. By…

Adding the risk-free government securities would result in a lower beta for the new portfolio. The new portfolio beta will be a weighted average of the individual security betas in the portfolio; the presence of the risk-free securities would lower that weighted average. q. The comment is not correct. Although the respective standard deviations and expected returns for the two securities under consideration are equal, the covariances between each security and the original portfolio…

This semester I had my first work experience related to my field of study. I interned with Morningstar which is an independent provider of investment research, financial information on mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds and multiple saving plans (Morningstar 2016). Morningstar’s mission is to provide software, reliable information on its investing site, online and print-based products for individual investors, professional advisors and institutional clients. It has offices in 27…

Reliance securities is the broking firm it’s a autonomous venture of Reliance Capital India Ltd. Reliance Cap is one of the India’s foremost retail broking stock broking venture , It provides customer right of entry in a stock market for trading and investment for general public to fastest growing financial market equities, derivatives, currency, IPO’s, mutual funds, bonds,and corporate FD’s. The large assortment of financial contributions help customer to accomplish their…

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known by his online pseudonym PewDiePie, has always been scrutinized by the media regarding how much money he makes, but this time they have dug up something else to discuss. The media, specifically the Wall Street Journal, recently came out with an article discussing PewDiePie as a Neo-Nazi. Between February 2016 and February 2017 Pewdiepie has uploaded multiple videos with Nazi symbolism. This has caused a massive coverage on the subject throughout the…

UTI (Unit Trust of India) The Unit Trust of India to a great extent manages the common asset plans and in this way famously known as UTI Mutual Fund all over India. It is overseen by UTI Asset Management Company Private Limited which was set up on January 14, 2003. UTI Asset Management Company Private Limited has been constituted by the UTI Trustee Company Private Limited for managing different plans created by UTI shared asset furthermore the plans that are exchanged by the UTI common asset…

In “Empire of Illusion” by Chris Hedges, Hedges states that “the most essential skill...is artifice.” The dictionary definition of artifice can be paraphrased as using tricks to deceive others, someone who is clever or cunning; though I wouldn’t use clever as a description of someone who is artifice. From personal experience, being artifice is not something that can help you, matter of a fact, it can kill. Many use artifice to use others to their own benefits, even if it means turning an entire…

Chris Hedges' states in his introduction, "we in the industrial world bear responsibility for the world's genocides because we had the power to intervene and did not. We stood by and watched the slaughter in Chechnya, Sri-Lanka, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Rwanda, where a million people died (16)." The world could not prevent innocent people from war, which was failure of the world leaders and country like the United States. Hedges' idea and experiences about war and conflict are real and…

Following the events of the latest financial crisis, the interest of media, public and investors towards the behavior and management of companies has seen a steady increase. Nowadays, companies are not judged solely on their financial performance but also on activities affecting a wider range of stakeholders. The set of activities under scrutiny by this research revolves around Environmental, Social and Governance practices and their effect on returns. Theoretically speaking, such activities are…