A behind-the-scenes look at the mutual fund industry
With more than 8,000 funds, more than $8 trillion in assets, and more than 87 million individual investors at the end of 2004, mutual funds—professionally managed pooled investment vehicles that give people the opportunity to participate in the securities market without...
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An organizations employees are often more intimate with its computer system than anyone else. Many also have access to sensitive information regarding the company and its customers. This makes employees prime candidates for sabotaging a system if they become disgruntled or for selling privileged information if they become greedy. Insider...
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002), signed into law on 30 July 2002 by President Bush, is considered the most significant change to federal securities laws in the United States since the New Deal. It came in the wake of a series of corporate financial scandals,...
Today, more than ever, enterprises are faced with great challenges: rising development costs, budget cutbacks, and increasing customer demands, to name a few. Decision makers must determine which projects to fund and are often confronted with an existing technology infrastructure that already includes a hodgepodge of...
