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Provdes information on finance jobs , finance degrees as well as topics on investment, insurance and financing.What is Finance
Finance is simply "the management of assets". This applies to debt and equity securities as well as many more.An example of this is that in debt securities the finance serves the wants and needs of individuals and organisations. Someone with surplus cash, wants to make a return off this money, while someone wants to build a business but has no money to initiate it. By issuing this surplus money in the form of a loan to the person who requires it (borrower) that individual can start his business, while the issuer will receive reimbursements through his loan, this forms the basis of a simple financial transaction.
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About the role of the RBA
Answers the questions of What is the Reserve Bank of Australia and who owns it? and how does the RBA set interest rates?
http://www.rba.gov.au/FAQ/role.html
Exchange rate theory - a review
A discussion paper on exchange rate theory including Purchasing power parity, PPP and interest parity, uncovered and covered interest parity, different exhcnage rate regimes and formulas for the above approaches.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/asia/papers/ph/exchange.pdf
Interest rates - Federal reserve bank of new york
Provides information on Definition of interest rates, the changing level of rates, role of the fed, mortgages and interest rates in relation to economy.
http://www.ny.frb.org/pihome/educator/interest_rates.html
Managing Interest Rate Risk: Duration GAP and Market Value of Equity
Lecture discussing Interest Rate Risk and Duration GAP with some examples and calculations.
http://www2.bus.okstate.edu/fin/simpson/slides/Koch%20Chapter%209%20Duration%20Gap.PPT
Purchasing Power Parity
Information on that answers the questions of what is Purchasing Power Parity?, Does PPP determine exchange rates in the short term? and How can PPP be calculated?
http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/PPP.html
Reserve Bank of Australia - Education
Information on the Australian Economy, Monetary Policy, Financial System, payments system and Developments in the Trade-Weighted Index
http://www.rba.gov.au/Education/
Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line
Lectures of portfolio theory with examples on expected return, security market line, calculating variance and beta.
http://www.mgt.buffalo.edu/courses/mgf/301/g/chpt13/
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