This article presents a quantitative portrait of the Canadian pension fund model. The
authors show that, between 2004 and 2018, Canadian pension funds outperformed their …

1 Executive Summary Of the $18.8 trillion of retirement assets in the United States at the end
of the third quarter of 2013, $6.8 trillion was held and managed in traditional defined benefit …

This paper investigates the investment strategy that large Canadian pension funds implement
in the private real estate market. Even though they manage just 6% of global pension …

We have carried out large scale Monte Carlo simulations of site and bond frustrated
Heisenberg models in order to gain insight into experimental phase diagrams on bond and site …

Conventional solar thermal receivers are limited to operating at temperatures below 600 C
due to the operational limitations of liquid heat transfer fluids (HTFs). In addition, pushing to …

Background Colorectal cancer poses a major burden. Its incidence increases with age and
older patients with comorbidities have a higher likelihood of major complications. This study …

This special issue focuses on the most popular investment models used in the asset
management industry. The issue includes 14 articles covering the mean-variance optimization …

… at the University of Edinburglh, in succession to the late Professor Francis D. Boyd. Dr. …
School of Physic, and acted for a short time as assistant to tlle late Professor D. J. Cunningham. …

This survey-based study looks at the risk-management practices of large pension funds,
relying on responses from 27 funds around the world with total assets of US $2.7 trillion. The …

Background: Cystic fibrosis liver disease (CFLD) occurs in 37% of patients with CF. To date
and to the best of our knowledge, there has not been a documented case of hepatocellular …