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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Investment Management"”.
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Data Science in Investment Management
In this thesis, titled "Data Science in Investment Management," we aim to explore the applications of data science and artificial intelligence across various dimensions of investment management, offering innovative solutions and insights to the industry. This thesis is composed of several parts, …
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Financial Investment Management for Forest Sustainability
… is discussion about main problems of forest management, whether financial investment has a substantial impact on the long term perspective of forest landscape restoration and, more specifically, what strategy and what financial options are available to make the forest projects more …
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Three Essays on Return Predictability and Decentralized Investment Management
… innovation and market efficiency, and delegated investment management.</p><p>In Chapter 1, "Maximum Return Predictability", I develop two theoretical upper bounds on the R2 of the regression of stock returns on predictive variables. Empirically, I found that the predictive R2s are significantly …
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Mean reversion in asset prices and asset allocation in investment management
This thesis examines the predictability of asset prices for an Australian investor. Evidence supporting the mean reversion alternative to the random walk hypothesis is presented, with a discussion of potential models, both linear and nonlinear. The normality and homoscedasticity assumptions are …
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Planning for the next generation of real estate investment management vehicles
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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An integrated analytical framework : guidelines for commercial real estate investment management
… for the commercial real estate ("CRE") investment with coverage from Acquisition Management, Development Management, Asset Management to Divestment. The motivation of this thesis responds to the need that small-scale Private Equity Real Estate ("PERE") firms have for efficient, …
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Risk and Uncertainty in Healthcare Finance, Investment Management, and Asset Pricing
… aimed to improve the risk/return trade off of investment when developing mRNA vaccine candidates for 11 emerging infectious diseases. Vaccine development is not only challenging due to the high scientific risk when developing a compound, but also due to the uncertainty in the occurrence of …
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Property-level performance attribution : demonstrating a practical tool for real estate investment management diagnostics
Real estate investment firms have the ever increasing need for understanding their firm's strengths and weaknesses, their performance relative to their peers and competitors, and for developing assessment tools for facilitating more informed investment and management decisions. One potentially very …
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The influence of ESG on investment decision making in the investment management and capital markets sector
… Social, and Governance (ESG) factors on investment decision-making processes within the South African investment management and capital markets sector. As global awareness of sustainability and social responsibility continues to rise, understanding how ESG considerations are integrated …
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An empirical study on robotic process automation implementation: A case study on MetLife Investment Management Client Services Group
… (RPA) for client services group (CSG) of a large investment management firm operating in the UK financial services industry. The objectives are to systematically review the existing best practice schools of thought highlighting factors that aid to mitigate challenges in RPA implementation and for …
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The evolution and dynamics of stocks on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange and their implications for equity investment management
[No subject] This thesis explores the dynamics of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange returns to understand how they impact stock prices. The introductory chapter renders a brief overview of financial markets in general and the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) in particular. The second chapter …
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Balancing Migration: Overcoming the challenge to SaaS provisioning for core business activities: A South African case study
… cloud solutions to business organisations in the investment management industry. These would include cloud solutions that investment managers can use in their core business activities. Furthermore, the aim of this dissertation is to identify how CSPs overcome the core challenge faced. A case study …
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ΠΡΟΣΟΜΟΙΩΣΗ ΔΙΥΛΙΣΤΗΡΙΟΥ ΠΕΤΡΕΛΑΙΟΥ ΜΕ ΣΤΟΧΟ ΤΗ ΒΕΛΤΙΣΤΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΗΣ ΤΟΥ
… OPTIMIZATION, SHORT AND LONG TERM SCHEDULING AND INVESTMENT EVALUATION. THE TARGET OF THIS DISSERTATION WAS THE SIMULATION OF A PETROLEUM REFINERY TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SOLVING OF PROBLEMS OF REFINERY OPERATIONAL AND INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT. THE …
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Strategic and institutional influences on fund manager investment flows
… decisions and institutional characteristics on investment cashflows. The first study investigates the alleged disintermediation of banks’ traditional deposit-taking in favour of investment management activities. Using data on Australian bank-affiliated funds and a nine-year record of the parent …
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Investigating the prudential determinants of infrastructural investment appraisal techniques in airports company South Africa
… challenge - particularly in the public investment management space - and many projects were funded prematurely. This perspective has motivated a host of academic literature to analyse airport infrastructure investment decision making process, based on financial and non-financial factors. …
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Financing methods that drive innovation in biotech and pharmaceuticals : the meagfund [sic] IPO model
… debt financing can not only mitigate risk in investments in cancer but can also align research and development in the right direction for new and innovative breakthrough therapies. We propose a new application of this megafund biopharma model - the megafund IPO model. There are almost …
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Information processing and computer strategy in mining investment analysis
This thesis addresses institutional investment management regarding mining capital investment (analysis, decision-making and administration). Emphasised is information processing and computer strategy to support mining investment recommendations. The topic is inter-disciplinary: mining, investment …
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Interaction effects within factor investing in a South African context
… trade) have been employed to mimic realistic investment management. Much of the framework used to incorporate these factors is adapted from Bender and Wang (2016) who tested these interactions on the S&P 500. The second, involves the construction of a controlled market model in an attempt to …
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Constructing low cost core-satellite portfolios with multiple risk constraints: practical applications to Robo advising in South Africa using active, passive and smart-beta strategies
… the gap between active, passive, and smart-beta investment management styles by introducing a low-cost portfolio construction technique, for core-satellite portfolio management, which contributes to the risk and tracking error budgeting process. Core-satellite portfolios are designed to expose …
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Foundations of a defense digital platform : business systems governance in the Department of Defense
… nearly $7 billion to defense business systems investments alone. It is not surprising given the scale of expenditure and complexity of the enterprise that its track record on business systems investments has not been great. Indeed, the DoD's investment management practices have been the target …
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