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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An investment that is not one of the three traditional asset types (stocks‚ bonds and cash). Most alternative investment assets are held by institutional investors or accredited‚ high-net-worth individuals because of their complex nature‚ limited regulations and relative lack of liquidity. Alternative investments include hedge funds‚ managed futures‚ real estate‚ commodities and derivatives contracts. Definition of ’Hedge Fund’ An aggressively managed portfolio of investments that uses advanced
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brother) and I in school. Only then when I came back home‚ I seriously was in a news station. Mom on her laptop watching some videos and the TV put on some Arabic news channel both on high volume‚ aside from the ringing of the home phone and cell phone nonstop. I felt my head was going to explode. I rushed over to my mom in the living room asking her what’s going on. There was the first time hearing her saying‚ “Syrians are protesting and there is a revolution approaching.” Believe me if I said I don’t
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Alternatives to Incarceration….Drug Courts There is no doubt that the United States suffers from an increase in crime and more people than ever being incarcerated. The numbers are currently overwhelming. “A nonpartisan organization called The Pew Center on the States‚ released a study February 2008 that found the U.S. imprisoned both more people and a larger percentage of its adult population than any other country. According to the study‚ by The Pew Center 2.32 million people were currently
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Is alternative medicine effective or ineffective? Since the beginning of time there have been various cultures that have counted on what modern Western physicians refer to as alternative medicine. Before modern Western medicine became what it is today every illness was treated by some sort of natural remedy or alternative medicine. The debate still continues today whether or not alternative medicine is effective or if they are temporary solutions that will eventually lead to a turning towards Western
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Content 1. Content page.1 2. Answer for question 1 page.2 3. Answer for question 2 page.3 4. Answer for question 3 page.4 5. References page.5 Answer for question 1 Everything is possible when we put effort on it. By having a good partner‚ we can reach our goal more easily. Maybe we will meet some problem when starting our business but if we don’t give up and try our best to get pass the problem we facing‚ we will be able to get a
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How Is Certainty Possible? Certainty is defined as being free of doubt. In philosophy is there such a thing that we know without any doubt? Do we know anything with absolute certainty? Although we may believe to have genuine knowledge in some cases‚ there are other cases in which we do not know‚ but only think we know. Now therein lies the problem‚ how do we distinguish what is absolutely certain and what is not? This is why the idea of knowledge and certainty is so important. Both empiricists
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of red beet is due to betalain pigments‚ such as betanin and betacyanin. It is most effective and we can save money because the cost of the sugar beet ink is much more less than the amount of commercial ink. B. Objectives 1. To know the possible component of sugar beets that can become a source of colored ink. 2. To know how to extract the sugar beets into ink. 3. To know how to conduct a potential additive for
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By: Salman Ali Intro: Peace is Possible Text‚ Let me briefly go over the background so that audience can get a in a historical perspective of Sindh as its an ancient province whose civilization stretches back to the earliest human settlements. The ancient Sindhi people embraced a peaceful way of life. Mohenjo-Daro‚ a city that flourished in 2600 B.C.‚ showed advanced city planning and well developed arts‚ yet an absence of even basic military fortifications and weapons. The rural areas
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Imperata cylindrica as an Antibacterial Agent for Escherichia coli INTRODUCTION a. Background of the Study We all know that bacteria are everywhere. Bacteria are microscopic organisms whose single cells have neither a membrane-enclosed nucleus nor other membrane-enclosed organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts. One example of bacteria is E .coli is a bacterium that is commonly found in the gut endotherms. E. coli and related bacteria constitute about 0.1% of gut flora‚ and fecal-oral
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