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1. INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT REPORT
Darlena Pagan
Southern New Hampshire University

2. AUSTRALIAAND BANK OF AMERICA
ANNUAL INCOME REPORT
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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: Encyclopædia 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: Encyclopædia Britannica (2014)

9. BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH
CREDIT RATINGS
• Entity Fitch Moody's Standard & Poor’s
• 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
• Encyclopædia 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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