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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"value add"”.
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Effect of override size on forecast value add
… an override was likely to create forecast value add. These techniques were found to be approximately 80% accurate in predicting success. This result suggests that using Dispersion-Scaled Overrides alongside common forecast accuracy metrics can reliably predict forecast value add. In turn, …
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Markers of a real estate agent's value-add
… part due to uncertainties surrounding the true value-add of real estate agents in home sales. Against this backdrop, this dissertation identifies observable markers of high value-add listing agents. We construct a dataset tracking 50,000 listing agents over 17.5 years and covering 1.2 million …
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Value-add in technical analysis on the JSE Bond Market
… sell signals in order to test if there is any value-add in their implementation. The dissertation attempts improve Bollinger Band based trading in two ways. The first involves attempts to more accurately estimate the underlying distribution of the time series, that is assumed to be normal in …
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The cost and value-add of using a financial advisor
This study investigates the quantitative value of advice added by financial advisors in South Africa; where value is measured through return differentials between advised and non-advised investors. A sample of 3189 individual investors from a large South African investment manager was analysed over …
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New perspectives in the modelling of alpha
… eclectic mix around a central theme of alpha, or value-add. It comprises four essays that are concerned with various theoretical and empirical aspects of alpha. The primary objective is to provide new perspectives in the major areas of modelling alpha; namely, performance measurement, opportunity …
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Risk adjusted asset valuation using a probabilistic approach with optimized asking rents and resale timing options
… consider the asset either as a core asset or a value-add asset. This study applies a basic stock flow model of space market dynamics to address the question of covariance among input variables. The model is designed with optional probabilistic inputs and historical data for the local space …
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Determinants of private real estate fund performance, 2004-2010 : the roller coaster ride
… funds were grouped in to three categories: core, value-add and opportunistic. The thesis explores several possible determinants of fund performance during the time period which was examined. Ultimately, the analysis indicates that there was generally no systematic indication that a given fund's …
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A market feasibility analysis of the carbon capture utilization and storage landscape in China for foreign firms
… on possible areas where foreign players can value-add should they decide to enter this industry.
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Exploring Green industrial policy in South Africa through the lens of vertically specialized industrialization
… African economy by increasing the range and value-add of domestically manufactured products. This thesis uses global value chain analysis to determine what ways local wind and solar manufacturing firms relate to this goal by pursuing innovation, upgrading, workforce development, and regional …
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Education and practice factory : from factory design to first product delivery
… manufacturing technologies are critical to the value-add supply chain. In this thesis, the creation process of the MIT Education and Practice Factory will be reviewed. Three major stages of the project will be covered in detail, including (1) factory setup, (2) pilot products development, and …
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The maturation and resiliency of the self-storage asset class
… more stabilized and forecastable assets than value add or opportunistic funds (Geltner, Miller, Clayton, & Eichholtz, 2014). Even though the percentage of self-storage in institutional portfolios is still small due to fragmentation of the industry and self-storage's total market share, the …
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Capturing value in outsourced aerospace supply chains
… competition and globalization. This strategy for value creation inevitably increases the inherent risks and complexity in the supply chain. This in turn makes capturing the value created extremely challenging as the organization, processes, relationships and operating models require change. Firms …
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Modeling the tradeoff between inventory and capacity to optimize return on assets in production scheduling
… customers' demand at the highest net present value (NPV) of operating assets value add (OAVA). We use a multi-period, multi-stage, multi-product mixed integer linear optimization model to determine the best combination of resources. Viable resource options include stocking inventory ahead of …
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The low-risk anomaly, cost of capital and IFRS 9 implementation impact: An analysis of South African banks
… implications This dissertation helps to add to the growing body of literature around the presence of the low-risk anomaly in South Africa. It also provides an assessment of the impact of the implementation of IFRS 9 on banks that regulators can use to gauge future implementations of …
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Impact of the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) in safety management at healthcare organisations
… how healthcare organisations have perceived the value-add of FRAM in terms of safety management. The results are expected to provide healthcare organisations with guidance on applying the FRAM and demonstrate the value it potentially adds to safety management. In the studies reviewed, FRAM was …
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Optimization of Throughput in Sheet Metal Manufacturing by Tuning the Sheet Metal Nesting Strategy Based on Sheet Utilization and Downstream Part Handling Costs
… which increases the time spent on the non value add activity. Therefore, an effective nesting strategy between the two extremes is necessary to balance the sheet utilization with the intensive sorting requirements to make the process cost effective and meet the required throughput. In this …
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Judge-target trait similarity and accuracy: Does it 'take one to know one'?
… factors influencing their ratings. Contribution/value add: The results of this study indicated that trait expertise does not emanate from being high on the trait being judged. This finding enhances our understanding of the factors that influence judgment accuracy.
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Making The Invisible Visible: Capturing the Multidimensional Value of Volunteerism to Nonprofit Organizations
… and significant. Yet, the assessment of the value that they bring to nonprofit organizations often is reduced to a few numbers and understood to be an economic decision based on their absence of wages. This value is traditionally reported as volunteer numbers, hours, and an hourly financial …
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How different pay-for-performance remuneration plans affect executive performance
… regards to motivational as a whole.Contribution/value-add: This study further clarifies the influence that different pay-for-performance remuneration plans have on the future performance of executives and managers.
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