a socially responsible portfolio selection strategy

... potential investors In Vietnam, the tools as well as Developing a Tool for portfolio selection securities valuation and analysis software are very rare, and if available all of them are overseas ... MySQL by DAO, ADO engine and user can present report such as Crystal report, Word, Excel by Visual Basic Access was chosen as database because it is not only a familiar data with table structure ... (82) (a) p We shall first compute: (a) p D/C2 A C A C C A C C A C C A C 0 A A C D C C A2 C 2A C 2A 0 A C D C B H C A C (83) Where we have used that: B A2 D (84) C 31 Developing a Tool for portfolio...

Ngày tải lên: 24/11/2014, 00:02

... granular sludge used for characterization of sludge washout and retention was obtained from another AUFB reactor that had been operated using ammonia-rich wastewater Details of the granular sludge ... known as an important factor influencing the sludge selection in an SBR (McSwain et al., 200 4a) Generally, surface loading rate (equal to liquid linear velocity at a sludge settling zone) and aeration ... reactor Both surface loading and aeration rates affect the selection of well-settling sludge and the formation of aerobic granular sludge By setting and controlling adequate surface loading and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... the annual Austrian campaign “Rich Austria Helps Poor Austria” and the annual East European campaign run by Caritas form the key focal aspects of the many years of partnership between Erste Bank ... European savings banks, in particular Caja Madrid in Spain and Erste Bank Group in Austria, are also fully dedicated intermediaries of the EU SME Guarantee Facility programme managed by the European ... foundation), created by Caixa Catalunya Obra Social in Spain at the end of 1997 is active in the preservation of natural heritage and landscape and raises awareness among the population of the need...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

...  Case Study 5: The Bank Simpanan Nasional Malaysia - Programme for habit of savings The Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia – ‘BNM’) had initiated a programme in 1997 to incalculate ... the credit analysis  Case Study 2: Caixa Economica Federal Brazil - A broad strategy for an inclusive financial system Caixa Economica Federal has developed an overall strategy to target the ... the participation of Brazilian Athletics Teams in more than 30 national and international competitions and in 15 other Caixa events that are part of the National Calendar of Sports Caixa also...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... Performance of SRI Funds: A Meta-Analysis   The Performance of Socially Responsible Investment Funds: A Meta-Analysis Sebastian Rathner* March 2012 Abstract Empirical studies, which analyse the ... CSP may be a source differentiation and bad CSP may harm a company’s brand A ‘good’ company may attract a highly educated workforce and may be more successful in motivating the employees than a ... remarkable that four Anglo-Saxon countries, namely, the US, Canada, the UK and Australia are considered most in this research, although Europe has the largest share of the global SRI market today...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:20

... 600 SmallCap Value Index CAM Asset Management Zenith Capital Revco Partners Alders Asset Management Eagle Capital Management Cross Capital Management Kiuley Capital Advisors Manager Firm Assets ... 23.1 n /a 26.1 n /a 23.6 5-Year Standard Deviation Returns-Based Data* (Annualized) 24 BEFORE THE ANALYSIS INTERNAL DATABASES Internal investment manager databases are collections of information ... databases that exist in the marketplace today This list represents databases that I have used at one time or another as well as other popular databases that I am aware of While the list contains...

Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2014, 10:12

... a way to modify dBalance — it merely returns its value This makes the balance read-only To use the analogy of an actual bank, you can look at your balance any time you want; you just can’t take ... program that differs from the earlier BankAccount program: // DoubleBankAccount - create a bank account using a double variable // to store the account balance (keep the balance // in a private variable ... Withdraw - you can withdraw any amount up to the // balance; return the amount withdrawn public double Withdraw(double dWithdrawal) { if (dBalance

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2013, 21:20

... different technologies available for clean operating system installations Manual Manual Installation Installation Manual CD-ROM Installation Manual Over-theNetwork Installation Unattended Setup Sysprep ... your organization have only a few standard hardware configurations, rather than many customized configurations Module 2: Designing a Workstation Installation and Upgrade Strategy 13 Advantages ... performing a clean installation of Windows 2000 Professional are as follows: Manual Installation Methods Manual CD-ROM installation Manual over-the-network installation Automated Installation Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 15:15

... install and manage software: A Windows Installer package (an msi file), which is a relational database that contains information describing the installed state of the application An API that allows ... define the stages of the software management process Lead-in Each organization has its own approach, but any approach involves standard stages Packaging—Preparing an Application for Installation Distribution—Replicating ... software applications are installed Who installs the software How software upgrades and updates are installed Whether upgrades and updates are mandatory or optional How to provide application...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 15:15

... Program Manager: Debbi Conger Online Publications Manager: Arlo Emerson (Aquent Partners) Online Support: Eric Brandt (S&T Onsite) Compact Disk Testing: Data Dimensions, Inc Manufacturing Manager: ... indicated, you can use lowercase letters when you type a directory name or file name in a dialog box or at a command prompt ALL CAPITALS Indicate the names of keys, key sequences, and key combinations ... 12.30 Lab A: Developing a Domain Upgrade Strategy 12.30 1.30 Lunch 1.30 2.00 Lab A: Developing a Domain Upgrade Strategy (continued) 2.00 3.00 Module 4: Minimizing the Impact on Network Operations...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 19:20

... organizations, and by managers of large multinational companies and international NGOs It is popular with final-year undergraduates and MBA and Master's students of business, management and marketing ... institutions, democracy, hierarchies and ways of thinking that have largely proved to be accurate This was because he had knowledge about changes that had already taken place at the time he made his predictions ... way that you can easily retrieve Case Study Marketing leadership and management action This is a practical case study of strategic action that needs to be taken by marketers and managers during...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:33

... Timothy, and Mark Kritzman, 2008, The cost of socially responsible investing, Journal of Portfolio Management 35, 52–56 Ballestero, Enrique, Mila Bravo, Blanca Perez-Gladish, Mar Arenas-Parra, and David ... David PlaSantamaria, 2011, Socially responsible investment: A multicriteria approach to portfolio selection combining ethical and financial objectives, European Journal of Operational Research Doi: ... Statistics Listed are the number, the average mean ESG, the average median ESG, the average minimum ESG, the average maximum ESG and the average standard deviation of the mutual funds by year and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:21

... Sobczynska The Task Team Leader for preparation of the Strategy was Yewande Aramide Awe The Strategy drafting group, led by Elisabeth Mealey, included Laura Tlaiye, Yewande Aramide Awe, Habiba Gitay, ... Fernando Loayza, Valerie Hickey, Klas Sander, Yves Prevost, Hannah Behrendt, Urvashi Narain, Giovanni Ruta, Alejandra Alvarez, and Kazi Fateha Ahmed from the World Bank and Edmond Mjekiqi and ... and logistical support was provided by Grace Aguilar, Sharon Esumei, Liudmila Mazai, Alexandra Sears, Regina Vasko, Patricia Noel, Nyambura Thande, and Juliette Makandi Guantai We thank the Governments...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... highly statistically significant They are also larger than those estimated for raw returns and economically significant: SRI funds earn an annual four-factor alpha that is between 1.16% and 1.55% ... funds Matching variables include year, investment objective, fund age and total net assets (both in logs), and management company total net assets (in logs) 1- and 4-factor alphas are annual Jensen’s ... companies and matched conventional funds managed by generalist companies (Panel A) ; SRI funds managed by generalist management companies and matched conventional funds from the whole sample (Panel...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:20

... distributed cross all categories Classification Algorithm: Many classification algorithms are available for text classification, such as Naïve Bayes, Maximum Entropy, k-NN, and SVM Among these methods, ... is randomly and evenly split into two subsets: 90% documents as the training data and the remaining 10% as testing data The training data are used for training SVM classifiers, learning parameters ... probability distribution Both the left and right graphs have shadowed areas of the same size And the value of Ai − Bi can be rewritten as the following A − Bi Ai − Bi = i ⋅ Ai = (1 − ) ⋅ Ai Ai Ai...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2014, 10:03

... potentials by means of fast wavelet transform Brain Lang 1999, 66:129-145 Samar VJ, Bopardikar A, Rao R, Swartz K: Wavelet analysis of neuroelectric waveforms: A conceptual tutorial Brain Lang 1999, ... signal or the output of an actual switch Such signals can be used to label the brain signals and to evaluate the performance of a BI The data analysis of individuals with motor disabilities was ... which are funded in part by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Alberta Innovation and Science, BC Advanced Education, and the participating research institutions The authors would like to thank...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... coverage improvement, and the signal strength on the direct path is very weak We also assume that relay stages are chosen in such a way that all the relay nodes of any two adjacent relay stages are ... subset of antennas of the destination Each antenna ∗ on the chosen path uses an AF strategy to forward the signal to the next relay stage, that is, each antenna of stage n on the chosen path transmits ... JEEMAS, where a subset of antennas of each relay stage is chosen for transmission that has the maximum mutual information at the destination We showed that the JEEMAS strategy can achieve the maximum...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... For Nakagami-m branch fading coefficients, each branch’s SNR, γl , is a gamma random variable with pdf given as [1]: BER PERFORMANCE: ANALYTICAL DERIVATION Given L available diversity branches at ... Nakagami [12] is a general fading statistics from which other fading statistics approximating the mobile communication environments can be modeled by setting the Nakagami parameter m to an appropriate ... Performance Analysis of T-GSC in Nakagami Channels 245 ¯ ¯ where βmax = γmax / γ and βth = γth / γ Note that the solution in (5) for Nakagami fading is valid only for integer values of the Nakagami...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... me was attracted to a creative, aesthetic way of life—to music and art and fashion and design and writing And another, seemingly equal part craved logic and order and ideas based in reason After ... He was obsessed with the idea of building the Disney brand And a theme park was a way to create a brand experience An amazing leap? A huge gamble? Absolutely Back then, Americans viewed amusement ... riverfront—and to the real estate development The idea generated an enormous amount of free PR, airtime, and media attention More than any ad campaign Building a city landmark instead of creating a bunch...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 08:20