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		<title>One Hour Payday Loans No Faxing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Borrowing money is something that everybody would like to avoid, but unfortunately life makes us do things that we are not really fond of. Thus although it is unwilling many people need to take payday loans from time to time and when they do they need to get the money as soon as possible. Consequently, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/one-hour-payday-loans-no-faxing/</link>
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		<title>Payday Loans No Faxing Period</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Payday loans are sometimes necessary for many people in order to survive until the arrival of the next paycheck. Whether it is because of previously unforeseen larger expenses, or long forgotten and now overdue bills that need to be taken care of. In fact, there are as many reasons for taking payday loans as there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/payday-loans-no-faxing-period/</link>
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		<title>Bill consolidation loans for bad credit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each and every one of us has plenty of bills to pay every month. These may include car loan installments, insurance, mortgage, or a few more and quite large installments for furniture. It is only natural and should not be a reason to worry. However, in uncertain economic situations many people lost their jobs, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/bill-consolidation-loans-for-bad-credit/</link>
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		<title>Nature of Liabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nature of an institutional investor’s liabilities will dictate the general investment strategy to pursue. Depository institutions, for example, seek to generate income by the spread between the return that they earn on their assets and the cost of their funds. Life insurance companies are in the spread business. Pension funds are not in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/nature-of-liabilities/</link>
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		<title>Institutional Investors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Managers of the funds of financial entities manage those funds to meet specified investment objectives. For many institutional investors (insurance companies, pension funds, investment companies, depository institutions, and endowments and foundations), those objectives are dictated by the nature of their liabilities. It is within the context of the asset/liability problem faced by managers of institutional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/institutional-investors/</link>
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		<title>Role of Financial Intermediaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Financial intermediaries obtain funds by issuing financial claims against themselves to market participants and then investing those funds. The investments made by financial intermediaries—their assets—can be in loans and/or securities. These investments are referred to as direct investments. As just noted, financial intermediaries play the basic role of transforming financial assets that are less desirable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/role-of-financial-intermediaries/</link>
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		<title>INDUSTRY’S EVALUATION OF MODELING TOOLS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study by The Intertek Group tried to assess how the use of financial modeling in asset management had changed over the highly volatile period from 2000 to 2002. Participants in the study included 44 heads of asset management firms in Europe and North America; more than half were from the biggest firms in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/industry%e2%80%99s-evaluation-of-modeling-tools/</link>
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		<title>THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Advances in information technology are behind the widespread adoption of modeling in finance. The most important advance has been the enormous increase in the amount of computing power, concurrent with a steep fall in prices. Government agencies have long been using computers for economic modeling, but private firms found it economically justifiable only as of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/the-role-of-information-technology/</link>
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		<title>FINANCIAL ENGINEERING IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In its modern sense, financial engineering is the design (or engineering) of contracts and portfolios of contracts that result in predetermined cash flows contingent to different events. Broadly speaking, financial engineering is used to manage investments and risk. The objective is the transfer of risk from one entity to another via appropriate contracts. Though the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/financial-engineering-in-historical-perspective/</link>
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		<title>Approaches to Portfolio Construction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Constructing an efficient portfolio based on the expected return for a portfolio (which depends on the expected return of all the asset returns in the portfolio) and the variance of the portfolio’s return (which depends on the variance of the return of all of the assets in the portfolio and the covariance of returns between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loan-advice.org/approaches-to-portfolio-construction/</link>
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