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Showing 1 to 20 of 220 for “"Asset management"”.
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Risk-based bridge asset management
… (DSS) for the optimization of bridge stocks management and upkeep. The developed DSS introduces a streamlined bridge risk assessment methodology that leverages structural reliability and advanced probabilistic models to perform risk projections, accounting for the degradation in both the …
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Three essays in asset management
The objective of this paper is to examine whether short-term variation in the ranking of size and style index returns in the UK equity market is better predictable and exploitable by means of quantitative or momentum style rotation strategies. Using UK index data, we assess the profitability of a …
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Asset management of wastewater networks
Asset Management (AM) is a set of procedures operable at the strategic-tacticaloperational level, for the management of the physical asset’s performance, associated risks and costs within its whole life-cycle. AM combines the engineering, managerial and informatics points of view. In addition to …
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Empirical Studies in Asset Management
… presents three empirical studies in the field of asset management. The first essay investigates whether within-firm connections alter manager career concerns and if investment distinctiveness, employee risk-taking and fund performance are affected. I measure connectedness using a dataset of …
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Three Essays On Insurance Asset Management
… industry manages a large amount of financial assets. In recent years, a growing number of investment companies are providing insurance asset management solutions, and the use of external asset management by the insurance industry is increasing over time. Therefore, understanding insurance …
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Developing a Strategic Asset Management Tool: A Multiple Case Study of Real Estate Asset Management Organizations in Dubai
… globally, with the development of real estate assets to support diversification from its primary economic source, oil and gas. The study focuses on Strategic Asset Management (SAM) practices within real estate organizations in Dubai. The literature reviewed the history of SAM, followed by a …
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Leveraging Autonomous Vehicles In Transportation Asset Management
… generation is important for transportation asset management because accurate sign records support roadway safety, maintenance planning, and asset-level decision making. However, current field inventory, image-log, street-view, mobile mapping, and computer vision methods may be limited when …
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Asset Management of Underground Cables Factoring Resilience
… of the primary equipment. This equipment, or assets, can be distributed on the ground and underground across a wide area. The health and age of the equipment in different parts of the system will vary depending on many factors, including the environment in which it is installed. To keep these …
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Customer Focus in Highway Transportation Asset Management
Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Essays in Asset Management: Long Horizon Investing
… The vast majority of endowments delegate the management of their assets to external managers. My first essay provides evidence that decisions taken by endowments about their external investment manager appointments (and terminations) are influenced by the behavior of their peers. This analysis …
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Tax-efficient asset management via loss harvesting
… After combining the framework with the Capital Asset Pricing Model as a source for simulated stock returns data, we perform a thorough sensitivity analysis and study the performance of loss-harvesting under various conditions of the financial market. By combining the framework with historical …
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Resilience Through Infrastructure Asset Management Long-term Planning
… well-being into infrastructure adaptation and asset management (IAM). Traditionally utilised for strategic investment planning, ILM uniquely illustrates how infrastructure interventions yield comprehensive benefits across social, economic, environmental, and cultural dimensions, reinforcing a …
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Asset management--service quality : the institutional investor perspective
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.
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Evaluating Chongqing Tiandi Project: An Asset Management Perspective
… to analyze the entire process of development and asset management for large-scale urban renewal projects in China's second-tier cities. It focuses on the motivations and outcomes of Shui On Land's transition from an asset-heavy to an asset-light model. Based on theoretical analysis (Chapter 2), …
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Asset Management Data Collection for Supporting Decision Processes
… identifies existing relationships between Asset Management data collection and the decision processes to be supported by them, particularly in the project selection level. It also proposes a framework for effective and efficient data collection. The motivation of the project was to help …
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Essays on Market Microstructure, Behavioral Finance, and Asset Management
Finally, in the last chapter we use daily observations from 448 actively managed funds and employ the empirical strategy of Bollen and Busse (2001) to assess the ability of fund managers to time systematic risk factors. We construct synthetic portfolios to obtain the empirical distribution of …
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Development of Asset Information Requirements to support Asset Management
The management of physical assets (asset management) is becoming increasingly important, supported by a shift in mindsets that are seeing maintenance moving from a "necessary evil" to a value-adding exercise. This is enforced by the need to achieve greater asset performance within increasing …
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Three Essays in Asset Management: Ethical and Investment Exclusions
… and are least in favour of using them for risk management purposes. Furthermore, professionals express the lowest levels of disagreement about the expected returns of non-controversial sectors, relative to those of controversial sectors. We also classify respondents into clusters depending on …
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Corporate real estate asset management in the United States
Thesis (M. Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
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