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1. INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT REPORT Darlena Pagan Southern New
Hampshire University
2. AUSTRALIAAND BANK OF AMERICA ANNUAL INCOME REPORT 998.3 89 1
2 AUSTRALIA AND BANK OF AMERICA ANNUAL INCOME REPORT ANNUAL INCOME
(BILLION) Australia Bank of America
3. Australia Background (Source: CIA (2014) and The British
Monarchy (n.d) INDEPENDENCE DAY: 1901 COMMONWEALTH REALM QUEEN
ELIZABETH II AS SOVEREIGN 22 MILLION PEOPLE OPEN MARKET
SELF-SUFFICIENCY COMMON LAW SYSTEM BASED ON THE ENGLISH MODEL 0 100
200 300 400 500 600 GDP Real Growth Unemployment Overall Risks FDI
Growth Rate 2011 expectation Export Import Australia Background
Percentage Amount
4. AUSTRALIA POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND FINANCIAL RISKS Delay
Decision Making in Legislation Elective Transformation Recession
Risk Macroeconomics Creating Policies Source: Political Monitor
(2014) Source: World Fact Book (2014) by CIA
5. AUSTRALIA POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND FINANCIAL BENEFITS
Property Rights 89.8% Freedom From Corruption 90% Financial Freedom
89.9% Business Freedom 90% Investment Freedom 90% Overall risk
indicators 80% Source: 2014 Index of Economic Freedom. (2014).
6. AUSTRALIA CREDIT RATE Standard & Poors: AAA Moodys: Aaa
Fitchs: AAA Source: Trading Economics (2014)
7. BANK OF AMERICA BACKGROUND 229 YEARS Bank of America
(1764-Present) Established: 1904 Headquarter: Charlotte, North
Carolina Banking and Financial Services Annual Income: $89 billion
57 million consumers 10 million banking customers now use mobile
(Source: Bloomberg, 2012) Operations in more than 40 countries
Source: Encyclopdia Britannica (2014)
8. BANK OF AMERICA BACKGROUND 6 ACQUISITIONS 229 YEARS 1983
Washington State Bank Seafirst Corporation 1991 Security Pacific
Corporation 2004 Fleet Boston Financial Corporation 2006 MBNA
Corporation 2007 U.S. Trust Corporation 2009 Merrill Lynch Source:
Encyclopdia Britannica (2014)
9. BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH CREDIT RATINGS Entity Fitch
Moody's Standard & Poors Outlook Negative Stable Negative
Long-term senior unsecured A Baa2 A- Short-term F1 P-2 A-2
Subordinated debt BBB Baa3 BBB+ Trust preferred BB+ Ba1 BB+
Preferred stock BB Ba3 BB+ (Source: Bank of America)
10. RECOMMENDATION Conduct an Empirical Research Use
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods Pricing Strategy &
Regulation Understand the psychological behavior in Political Risk
Understand the sociological relationship in Political Risk
Understand what connects the community with political reviews Study
the Macroeconomics Crisis Global Strategy Develop a Public Social
Relationship Conduct surveys on Internal and External Affiliates
Keep up to date with legislation Keep up to date with elections
Keep up to date with governmental policies Compare the Company with
other countries from the Index of Economic Freedom
11. REFERENCES 2014 Index of Economic Freedom. (2014).
Australia, Retrieved from
http://www.heritage.org/index/country/australia Bank of America.
(n.d). 1764, Retrieved from
http://message.bankofamerica.com/heritage/#/timeline/1764 Bank of
America. (April 16, 2014). Credit Rating, Retrieved from
http://investor.bankofamerica.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71595&p=creditratings#fbid=yUWE-
xXHRGY/hashlink=BofA Encyclopdia Britannica(2014). Bank of America
Corporation, Retrieved from
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/51984/Bank-of-America-Corporation
12. REFERENCES Bloomberg. (April 29, 2014). 2013 revenues at
Bank of America Corporation totaled $89.8B, Retrieved from Trading
Economics. (2014). Australia | Credit Rating, Retrieved from
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/rating The World Fact
Book. (2014). Australia-Oceania, Retrieved from
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-
factbook/geos/as.html USD, while annual earnings equaled $0.90 per
share, Retrieved from
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/earnings/earnings.asp?ticker=BAC
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