“UK Open-Ended Mutual Funds Industry pre and post the Global Financial Crisis: Performance Persistence and Return Attribution” By Dimitris Xydias Abstract This dissertation project tests the persistence in performance of a survivorship bias controlled sample of 574 UK Open-End Mutual Funds for the period between 31/12/1999 and 31/12/2011 and decomposes the funds’ returns into factors. The former is done by employing both parametric and non-parametric approaches to identify persistence and the
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Organization (NGO) called The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) and discussing its relationship to the International Human Rights movement. First‚ we must establish what is an NGO. An NGO is an independent entity which works alongside governments to advocate for Human Rights and related issues. These entities usually work on a voluntary basis‚ and rely on donations from individuals‚ governments or private companies to conduct their business. The Children’s Defense Fund is a private American non-profit child
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Communist China uses propaganda and force to hide the truth from the public‚ as well as controlling them in a sense. Ha Jin writes Waiting and in this book he comments and portrays communist China in great detail. Waiting’s main character‚ Lin Kong‚ is commonly criticized as indecisive and unable to love. In an interview published in Asia Week in 1999‚ Ha Jin comments on Lin’s inability to love: allegorically…sum up a sort of internal psychological damage to the Chinese… the Revolution was to
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After his initial arrival in London‚ in 1908‚ Ahad Ha-am engaged in a round of visits‚ at the rate of one per week‚ in which he introduced himself to the elites of the Anglo-Jewish community. He was well received not only due to his extraordinary knowledge or his political writings but also because he represented a novelty for the English Jewry. There he was‚ an Eastern European intellectual Jew‚ contrasting with the waves of poor‚ uncultured brethren from Russia or Galicia. Little did these prominent
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How has White Australia shaped Australian identity? The essence of White Australia molded the basis upon which Australian identity is shaped. A individual’s way of identifying oneself to fitting to the country in which they live is an correlation enabled by national distinctiveness‚ which converts to an “important component of self”. Domestic individuality is a “socially constructed idea or myth” amalgamating its populace; its advocated types frequently imitate principles the populace wishes their
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effect temperature has on the activity of the enzyme α- amylase. Introduction Enzymes are a biological catalysts‚ which means that they speed up the chemical reactions in living organisms. Almost all of enzymes are energized protein molecules that catalyse and regulate nearly all biochemical reactions that occur within the human body. The reason in which enzymes are sensitive to heat‚ pH and heavy metal ions is because they are made up of proteins. The food we eat is turned into energy by enzymes
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How AIDS has Affected Black Communities There has been an alarming increase in HIV/AIDS among African Americans. Blacks constitute only 12% of the U.S. population‚ but they represent 41% of reported AIDS cases from 1996 to now. 55% of women with AIDS are African-American‚ and 58% of pediatric cases are among African-American children. Since 1991‚ AIDS has been the leading causes of death in African American men ages 25-44‚ and in 1994‚ the disease became the number one killer of African-American
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How has Technology Affected Senior Citizens in China? Original Over the last 30 years‚ China’s technology has developed rapidly‚ making life more and more convenient to many of its citizens. Mobile phones have helped to connect people all over China and computers have helped people to organize their work and share information easily. Owing to the length of time that they have spent on this Earth‚ senior citizens in China will have experienced two very different worlds‚ having seen first hand
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SEARCHING Searching for jobs on the Internet has become a very popular endeavor in the last ten years. Things have changed considerably in our culture and this is one area that holds a large amount of the responsibility. A Brief History of the Internet The Internet was first developed in 1969 by the United States Department of Defense. Created by their Advanced Research Projects Agency‚ the Internet was called ARPANET in the early years. They developed the Internet as a means of communication
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ONE ACRE FUND: CASE STUDY The scene is Bungoma‚ Kenya; Moises Postigo is a buyer interested in purchasing fertilizer on a large scale for his not-for-profit organization the One Acre Fund (OAF). OAF’s mission is to provide fertilizer to farmers “who have nothing” on a credit like system and when the farmers produce their crops a percentage of their supplus would be returned to OAF. Eventually the farmers would no longer need a “free hand out” and will be able to support themselves and their families
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