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		<title>Profile &#8211; Bank of America</title>
		<link>http://growthinvestment.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/profile-bank-of-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AMIT SAXENA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was working on preparing company profile for Bank of America.

During this assignment, I covered different business segements of Bank of America ,  its stock performance , merger and acquisition trends, Financial Analysis and Federal Bail Out to Bank of America in severe recessionary period of 2008-09.
The Primary source of information were Annual Reports filed by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=growthinvestment.wordpress.com&blog=2432870&post=143&subd=growthinvestment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Banks by Assets (2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AMIT SAXENA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About two months back when I had tried compiling a list of world&#8217;s top banks by asssets(with my friend Abhishek), the task was not easy. The main reasons being that full year results of all companies were not out. Also, all the firms don&#8217;t report their numbers in dollars using a point-in-time exchange rates . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=growthinvestment.wordpress.com&blog=2432870&post=141&subd=growthinvestment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Credit Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://growthinvestment.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/what-is-credit-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AMIT SAXENA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit Crisis has become a buzz word in past couple of years. It seems as financial crisis has engrossed our lives. We find it everywhere from media to newspapers.
But the most important question is &#8216;How many of us understand what credit crisis is all about?&#8216;. Ask to your friends and I think, most of them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=growthinvestment.wordpress.com&blog=2432870&post=125&subd=growthinvestment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CFA Level 1 &#8211; My Experience and Preparation Tips.</title>
		<link>http://growthinvestment.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/cfa-level-1-lesson-and-prepration-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AMIT SAXENA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave CFA (US AIMR) in Dec 08 and after giving the paper I was looking for forums for comments from the exam takers. Strangely, I couldn&#8217;t find a single active fourm about the exam. I am not sure why was it so. Probably because CFA Institute has a strict policy of not discussing CFA [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=growthinvestment.wordpress.com&blog=2432870&post=114&subd=growthinvestment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Stock markets and the barometer &#8211; Stock Index</title>
		<link>http://growthinvestment.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/world-stock-indexes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AMIT SAXENA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 
 
A Stock Index is a basket of securities that include stocks of different industries and represents economic performance of a nation. A broad-based index represents the performance of a whole stock market and reflects investor sentiment about the state of the economy.For example, SENSEX (BSE Stock index) includes 30 stocks and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=growthinvestment.wordpress.com&blog=2432870&post=104&subd=growthinvestment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance in India</title>
		<link>http://growthinvestment.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/microfinance-in-india-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AMIT SAXENA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microfinance refers to the provision of providing financial services to poor or low-income groups. In simple terms, microfinance means providing very poor families with very small loans (micro credit) to help them engage in productive activities or grow their tiny businesses. 
More broadly, it refers to a movement that envisions “a world in which poor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=growthinvestment.wordpress.com&blog=2432870&post=87&subd=growthinvestment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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