t Wilkie's stochastic investment model and its variants have been increasingly applied by actuaries around the world to actuarial modeling and simulation. This paper performs time series outlier analysis on retail price inflation, which is the driving force of Wilkie's composite model. The data come from four developed countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. The...

Investment could be defined as the act of incurring immediate costs with the expectation of future returns. An investment project, as every asset has a value. Thus, for successfully investing in and managing these assets is crucial not only recognizing what the value is but also the sources of this value (Damodaran, 2002). Most investment decisions share three important characteristics in diffe...

in every society the optimal performance of economic system is depened upon two efjkient, powerful and administered sections: real and financial. the existence of different institutions in financial markets make different financial instruments available to real section. investment companies are among active financial institutions which collect small amounts ofcapital by selling thier shares and...

In this paper, we develop two models for the valuation of information technology (IT) investment projects using the real options approach. The IT investment projects discussed in this paper are categorized into development and acquisition projects, depending upon the time it takes to start benefiting from the IT asset once the decision to invest has been taken. The models account for uncertaint...

With a rich fare of localized content, but limited regional media outlet channels, mobile content generates new business opportunities for Media News, a small media company with considerable growth potential. Two business models are considered: partnering with wireless service providers and strategic alliances with mobile content syndicators. First, the models are evaluated based on their resou...