Mutual fund managers are evaluated primarily on their ability to outperform their peers (rather
than outperform a stated index), although managers have no ex ante information on …

The Brazilian asset-backed security (ABS) market presents many opportunities and obstacles
to investors, especially foreign investors who are accustomed to transparent markets and a …

Brazilian asset-backed securities (ABS) appeal to investors because of their relatively high
yields and diversification benefits. However, Brazilian and international investors struggle to …

The objective of this thesis is to provide a general model for the behavior of stock price change
distributions. Such distributions are assumed to be generated by individual perceptions of …

… * I thank Bernard Black, Jean-Francois Dreyfus, Deborah Goldstein, Avner Kalay, Robert
Kieschnick, Robert Macris and Nickolaos Travlos for helpful comments, and Vernon Budinger …

Hominid brain size increased dramatically in the face of apparently severe associated
evolutionary costs. This suggests that increasing brain size must have provided some sort of …

This article describes the impact of life expectancy in the life settlement market with respect
to the rate of return to investors and the values of policies. The life settlement industry …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Zinc-62 (T1/a= 9.3 hr) decays 80% by EC and 20% by/}+
emission (660 keVmax); the 9.8-min Cu-62 daughter decays 97% by ß-\-emission (2.91 …

For full three-dimensional flow, only a partial particular integral has been found. As an example
of a more general problem, the solution is derived for an inclined cone. The possibility of …

The term" structured settlement" refers to a broad category of financial resolutions between
an aggrieved party and a party deemed to be responsible (or their insurer). In a structured …