FIN 527 Alternative Investments | Private Equity | Project 1. | | Wei Chen‚ Ye Zhang | | | Part 1. Performance Measurement for Private Equity a) Summary statistics for venture capital and buyout returns: Histograms of returns: The return distribution of venture capital has a kurtosis of 23.25 and a skewness of 3.63‚ which means it is leptokurtic and skews to the right. It is not close to normal distribution. Mainly due to the high returns in late 1990s during the
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Oct. 18‚ 2001 Thesis Private prisons can be a profitable and secure alternative to government run Statement prisons. Private prisons are able to be profitable by controlling the administrational cost of operating the facilities. At the same time‚ they must adhere to high governmental standards to maintain the right to operate. Background As a nation‚ we have many issues that we must face. One of those issues is the administration of the‚ already overcrowded‚ prison system. This issue is one of the
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Private Security ESSAY #1 The three human and physical needs that are important in the relation to employee embezzlement are: need‚ rationalization‚ and opportunity. The employer should try and eliminate these elements up front‚ so there is less chance of embezzlement happening‚ but there will always be some way around all the obstacles NEED as explained in our text is a physical condition that may be the cause of unusual debts and may cause an employee to think seriously about how to convert
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Agency My field placement has been in the Islip Public School District in the middle school. I work with students of the ages of 11-14. Within the school‚ the support staff consists of a social worker‚ guidance counselors‚ and a psychologist. Students can get support from their teachers‚ assistant principal‚ and principal as well. Islip Middle School provides a comfortable and accepting environment for all the students and does not tolerate any form of bullying or harassment. The Islip Public
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It’s very important to follow directions‚ or else the world would be in chaos. When some tells you that you must follow directions so that everything can go in an orderly fashion‚ it’s important do because they know what’s going to happen if you don’t. It’s important to follow directions because if you don’t something can go wrong‚ it’s important follow directions because if you don’t you’ll get in trouble‚ and it’s also important to follow directions because if you don’t you’ll be writing this essay
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Private investigations Private investigators can specialized in many areas of the criminal justice fields. Some of the positions are crimes against children or elderly‚ civil‚ and crimes against property. The investigations mostly private investigators carry out are observation of a suspect and conduct searches. So it goes with surveillance these days‚ which video cameras played a key role in identifying a perpetrator committing a crime. In any case‚ most surveillance involves someone before or
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IFM Placement Syllabus 2012-2013 International Financial Management (IFM) Rolf Bos‚ Placement Coordinator Room 3.088‚ P.O. Box 22575‚ 1100 DB Amsterdam‚ NL e-mail: f.r.bos@hva.nl Tel.: +31.20.5236050 Contents 1. Introduction........................................................................................................... 3 1.1. Placement as part of the education .......................................................... 3 1.2. Placement schedule ..............................
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the areas was poor. The problem seemed to be the location of the town in a valley and nearly 90 air miles from the Philadelphia television transmitters. Naturally‚ signals could not pass through mountains and clear reception was virtually impossible except on the ridges outside of town. It was frustrating for those who had just purchased an expensive set but not receiving clear transmission. Reasons for poor reception were well-understood. For one thing‚ the early transmitters
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neglect‚ gross abuse or violence. Again‚ these children will have to face the emotional stress of being removed from their familiar home setting. Most children in out of home placement will experience periodic change in placement; they will be moved from one foster home to another with the anticipation to find a perfect placement. Consequently‚ foster children may be predisposed to having behavioral problems and emotional issues that may overlap and mimic Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
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ACTION PLAN FOR PLACEMENT SEVEN Date | What do I want to achieve? | How will I achieve it? | Who do I need to involve? | Target date | Outcome and Evaluation | | Check learning needs from the previous page and prioritise them: | Write down what you and your mentor and personal teacher agree that you need to do to ensure success: | Who can facilitate you in achieving your goals? | What is the cut-off date‚ when do you want to achieve this by? | What was the outcome? How well did you do? If it
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