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New Economy

Although we have seen an explosive decade of growth and cycle in the economy, the bombs have been filtered out leaving the economy poised for steady and certain growth. Smart money is now wise to the problems the past few years, lessons have been learned, and the best investments are now at hand.

We have seen extraordinary growth in technology, but at the same time a buffering and selection process in industry. Although the infrastructure is stable for the moment, there are new technologies emerging, which would otherwise have been lost in the chaotic trends of recent times. This settling of the infrastructure will allow these new technologies to become visible more easily, but fast response time is critical.

Poised for Growth

Based on the stabilized infrastructure and upswing and recovery in the economy, business is poised for an explosive period of growth as smart money now focuses in on those business models and innovations designed for success. These select companies are key to your financial growth and your future wealth.

But how to determine which companies are the movers. Short term trends only show day to day trading and market momentum. These are important indicators to a markets early acceptance of a company. The real key is having industry knowledge, and understanding how a company fits into the evolving New Economy over time.

What is required is a group of professionals working together sharing, discussing, and evaluating those market trends and the companies which will be filling the needs of industry over time. Through careful research the Shaw Capital Asset Management staff of investment professionals document and compare the relative strengths of the hottest new companies and affiliates. Staff origins and histories are reviewed. Only those companies with the strongest and most consistent foundations are considered.

From those companies with strong foundations of support, the technology and product offerings are then compared in search of the stellar products which address industry needs for a stable fit into the economy, but also do so in a fashion which goes beyond just “filling a gap” in the market. In other words, a strong company and equally strong and visionary products.

This type of dedication and selection is what allows us to be a driving force behind the evolution of the New Economy

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Shaw Capital Management and Financing provides export trade financing to clients in every major world market and can convert accounts receivable finance transactions in 17 currencies.

We have no minimum or maximum monthly volume requirements. Other factoring companies require a financial commitment for the amount of freight bills you factor each month.

Our highly skilled team provides full administrative support - including credit management, invoicing, collections, account reporting, expense reporting, fuel card management and much more!

With Shaw Capital Management and Financing, you get paid in full minus our fee the day we receive your freight bills. Other factoring companies holdback 10 to 15 percent of your money or more for each invoice in a reserve account. That reserve amount is not immediately provided to your company. In the end, you receive part of that percentage back, depending on how long it takes the factoring company to receive payment on the invoice.

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Shaw Capital Management Factoring: IMF hack a warning for others to invest in staff training | Shaw Capital Management Factoring and Financings Latest News

Staff training about simple email threats may have helped the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in New York from being hacked by a targeted malware attack, according to one analyst.

According to Bloomberg, the hack’s perpetrators obtained a “large quantity of data,” including e-mail and other documents during the intrusion.

Ovum’s UK based IT security analyst, Graham Titterington, said in a statement that many security mistakes occur within banks and other financial institutions because staff have not received sufficient training on threats.

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“People are people and have innate vulnerabilities with respect to trusting the wrong people, accepting inducements, or simply having more pressing concerns at the time they are approached [via email],” he said.

While there was “no magic bullet” to prevent a cyber attack, the IMF could have also put more security measures in place.

“Most information theft attacks are launched through an Internet facing application in the corporate gateway, attacking vulnerabilities in applications using relatively predictable strategies such as SQL injection or scripting attacks,” Titterington said.

“So improving the coding standards of applications is a major step, or alternatively protecting applications by screening them with an application layer firewall.” According to Titterington, access control to systems was another area where controls were frequently circumvented, as attackers steal the credentials of legitimate users through a number of types of attack.

“Spyware is often inserted into the target organisation well before the main attack takes place to acquire this information. Monitoring data movements, data encryption, and data loss prevention systems can also reduce the loss of information directly from electronic systems, particularly with regard to high volume theft,” he said.

In the case of the IMF, data monitoring did flag the data breach, but not soon enough to prevent the hack taking place. “However, security technologies themselves are not universal panaceas, even when the vulnerabilities have been dealt with,” said Titerington.

“Data loss prevention is cumbersome and can obstruct legitimate business if it is not perfectly tuned while encryption is only as good as key management and brings the risk of losing all access to your data if you lose the key.”

D. E. Shaw & Co. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The firm was founded by David E. Shaw, a former Columbia University faculty member and has more than 1,200 employees worldwide. The focus of its activities is "the intersection between technology and finance,"^{[citation needed]} and it applies quantitative and qualitative trading strategies to hedge fund management and other investments, including venture capital, real estate, and private equity.

In August 1996, Fortune described the firm as "perhaps the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street". Over the following decade, Shaw grew to manage nearly $40 billion in aggregate capital and was once among the world's largest hedge funds as measured by assets under management.^[2] In mid-2011 its core hedge funds had approximately $15 billion dollars in investment capital. ^[3]"Wall Street's King Quant David Shaw's Secret Formulas Pile Up Money. Now He Wants a Piece of the Net.", February 5, 1996, Fortune magazine^[3]

The D. E. Shaw group has made a conscious effort to build a carefully selected team of extraordinarily gifted professionals, each among the very best in his or her profession, rather than a larger group of highly competent but less obviously remarkable personnel. To this end, the firm continues to allocate an unusually large portion of its operating budget to the identification and recruitment of truly exceptional individuals who might significantly add to its capabilities. Hiring is extremely selective, with only one candidate in several hundred ultimately invited to join the firm. The company's personnel includes a number of Rhodes, Fulbright, and Marshall Scholars, Putnam Fellows, and the winners of more than 20 medals in the International Math Olympiad. It maintains offices in Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.^[3]

In support of its recruiting, D. E. Shaw supports educational programs such as Math-M-Addicts (teachers are D. E. Shaw & Co. employees),^{[citation needed]}American Regions Mathematics League^[4] Worldwide Online Olympiad Training (WOOT), United States of America Mathematics Olympiad and the International Mathematics Olympiad, Mathematical Olympiad Program, the MIT 6.370 Battlecode Competition,^[5] and The Center for Excellence in Education^[6]

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Greece Debt Crisis

Is there really life after debt?

IMF keeping true to its promise of 3.6 billion euro contribution on the next installment authorized the release after the Greece passed the much-talked about austerity bills. However, the proposed debt rollover plan for them can still put the whole country in ‘effective default’.

European Union finance ministers will meet on July 8 to approve the 12 billion euro bailout plan for Greece due on July 15. Although Greece’s parliament successfully passed the austerity bills last month, its implementation are still clouded with doubt because of weak support and fear of civil unrest.

Greece still needs a second aid package, with a total of 110 billion euro, details of which is expected to be finished by mid-September. Next week, July11 finance ministers are going to discuss more long-term plans to save Greece. As such, German banks and insurers have already pledged last week to buy 3.2 billion euros of maturing bonds.

Their long-term plan apparently has something to do with convincing banks to buy 30 billion euro-worth of Greek bonds. And when all else fails, Eurozone is already preparing contingency plans, in case Greece did default.

Although, Greece must do well to remember there are no such thing as free lunch. Eurogroup’s chairman warned Greece that this help from the EU and IMF may have unpleasant consequences.

Eurozone warned of job losses and possible loss of sovereignty. Sovereignty will be limited and foreign involvement in running the country can bring more political unrest and street protests.