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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Investment returns"”.
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Property investment returns, a comparison by property sector
A comparison of Property Investment Returns on a "Total Capital", "Pre-Tax" basis using a ten year study period comprising the calendar years 1989 to 1998 inclusive. Primary data was collected for a sample of 18 properties in and around Warkworth Township. Warkworth is a provincial service town …
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Cognitive error in the measurement of investment returns
… amount invested is systematically related to the returns made to date. This error leads investors to use Value Averaging (VA). This thesis demonstrates that this is an inefficient strategy, since alternative strategies can generate identical outturns with lower initial capital. Investors also …
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Costing commonality : evaluating the impact of platform divergence on internal investment returns
… costing of commonality benefits, the associated returns from commonality investments, and the potential impact of divergence on commonality benefits. This dissertation used a tiered approach to the research questions. A statistical study of commonality returns was conducted, finding evidence for …
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A comparison of potential agricultural and forestry investment returns for Virginia's marginal lands
… marginal agricultural lands to forestry investments. A technique was developed to compare possible financial returns between prevalent cropping systems and forestry investments on marginal soil series throughout Virginia. Crops and tree species used in the study include the following: …
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The taxation of investment returns arising in collective investment schemes as compared to hedge funds
The thesis compares the taxation of the investment returns from a hedge fund to those derived from a collective investment scheme. Taxation within the investment entity and in the hands of the investor were considered, this yielding the overall effective tax rate on the return. The scope of the …
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Cash management in local governments: an evaluation of local government money management policies and practices, and the constraints on the maximization of investment returns
… obstacles in the effort to maximize the returns on their investments of temporarily idle funds. This study has evaluated local government cash management policies and practices with a view to identifying those factors militating against the efforts to achieve optimum returns on …
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Decentralization of office markets and the effects on rates of return
Does decentralization of office markets effect investment rates of return? This is the central hypothesis behind this research paper. In order to study the influence of decentralization of office markets on investment returns, this thesis uses three different sources of data. First, Torto Wheaton …
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Intertemporal portfolio choice: An application to agricultural investment
This research analyzes optimal off-farm investment decisions for a Central Illinois hog farm in the presence of bankruptcy costs. Optimal decisions are derived using a stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) model which incorporates the stochastic dynamic nature of investment returns and the …
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The impact of organizational learning and training on multiple job satisfaction factors.
… Implications for training and development investment returns are considered. Previous research has identified training and development as an antecedent to perceived organizational support. Results failed to confirm perceived organizational support as mediating the relationship between …
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Residential Real Estate Investment in Emerging Economies: The Case of Ghana
… constitutes the basis of an emergent real estate investment market. Much of the recently constructed stock is income-producing rented accommodation, and falls in the formal sector of the market - where sale and leasing transactions are systematically documented in the records of the Ghana Land …
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You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip: misconceptions of commodity investments and their disappointing returns
… examines questions about long-only commodity investment performance compared to underlying commodity performance. Recent returns have been nothing short of disappointing to investors. A divergence in price has developed between some commodity funds and the observed price of the underlying …
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Box Jumping: Portfolio Recompositions to Achieve Higher Morningstar Ratings
… Morningstar ratings at the expense of lower investment returns. Funds achieve higher ratings by changing their holdings to induce Morningstar to reclassify them into size/value style boxes with worse average performance. This practice, which I label `box jumping', sacrifices fund performance …
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Socially Responsible Investing : a comparative analysis of environmental, social, governance, reputational and labor factors
… Investing (SRI) aims to deliver competitive investment returns while fostering social good. It aims achieves its objective by including a firm's corporate social performance (CSP) in its investment d s . I has giesgnfct momentum over the past few years and is poised to assume a mainstream …
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Micro-level return and volatility drivers in Boston's single family home market
… low median incomes as potential growth markets. Investments in these areas however are often perceived by private sector capital as being high risk and low return. An understanding of the predictors of investment volatility and return is critical to investors and homeowners who wish to maximize …
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REIT-based pure-play portfolios : the case of property types and geographic locations
… for investors to precisely target their investments because publicly traded REITs diversify their assets across property types and geographic locations. This research has explored the concept and methodology of a REIT-based pure-play portfolio. This portfolio is defined as an optimal …
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The US Unconventional Monetary Policy and International Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies
… domestic political stability, and expected investment returns driven by EME macroeconomic fundamentals.</p>
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Optimization of Private Equity Investments for Industrial Carbon Emission Reduction
… on how emissions reduction initiatives influence investment returns. This research presents a carbon footprint calculator and an optimization model to analyze emissions reduction projects. We highlight that using these two tools as part of a strategic framework can help manufacturing companies …
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Has growth in the money supply since 1971 led to increased inequality?
… countries during the 1971-2016 period, and that investment returns, particularly in housing, also contributed to the trend. Additionally, evidence suggests that the increased weight of mortgage credit in gross domestic product may act as a channel through which inflation leads to inequality.
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The Boston Seaport : an economic analysis of large scale urban redevelopment on adjacent residential real estate values
… on affordable housing and gentrification, investment returns, urban land theory and homeowner equity. During the study period from 1996 - 2017, results show that South Boston housing in the "Closest to the Seaport Redevelopment" distance quartile range earned an additional 6.21% in annual …
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On modelling volatility and mortality for pension schemes
… using multivariate DCC GARCH model to obtain the investment returns and the cohort actuarial tables were produced based on LC approach for the out-of-sample period in the UK population. The fits from the modelling of volatility and mortality were analysed on defined benefit (DB), defined …
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