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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"investment return"”.
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Estimating the risks in defined benefit pension funds under the constraints of PF117
… options including incorporating margins into investment return assumptions or the removal of the no-deficit clause.
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Studies in Income, Investment, and Stock Returns: The Permanent Income Hypothesis and the Overinvestment Puzzle
… sales drive earnings; increased earnings drive investment; and increased investment drives higher stock returns. In this dissertation, I studied the relationship of sales income, firm investment increase and stock returns. The first paper, titled "Permanent Income and Investment", investigates …
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The profitability of green retrofitting the building envelope of commercial buildings in Cape Town
… energy consumption in buildings based on investment return. The literature reveals that the façade is the most significant variable in energy optimisation in buildings and concluded that over-cladding strategies are generally the most efficient means to reduce heat transfer and control …
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Pension fund valuation
… covers three main areas; the funding mechanism, investment and matching and control of the fund. In the part dealing with the funding mechanism, a model is introduced in order to assist analyses of the mechanism of a pension fund. The model notionally separates the fund into individual pots and a …
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Three essays in financial economics
The first essay, Wage Differentials, Firm Investment, and Stock Returns, investigates the effects of labor costs on firms’ capital investments and stock returns. I estimate wage premia across U.S. industries and show that the negative investment-return relation implied by q-theory is steeper for …
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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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Provozní náklady rodinných domů
Diplomová práce posuzuje a srovnává provozní náklady (energetickou bilanci) rodinných domů v závislosti na jejich stáří a v rámci jejich životního cyklu. V první části diplomové práce jsou definovány základní pojmy, tepelně-technické vlastnosti a technologické postupy zlepšování tepelně-technických …