Advantage of the Four-Factor Model over Current Evaluation Techniques A fund’s investment performance is measured by its risk-adjusted return (alpha) which is the return of the fund minus the return of the fund’s benchmark. A fund’s perfect benchmark is a portfolio that (1) is fully diversified and (2) has precisely the same exposures to sources of risk (risk factors) in stock market returns as the fund. Forty years of capital markets’ research indicates that there are four risk factors in returns; a
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Peer Pressure – Are You Being Influenced? If there is one inescapable aspect of being a teenager‚ it is peer group pressure. We have all either experienced it‚ or will do so at some time in our lives. It doesn’t matter what religion or ethnic community we belong to‚ or which country we live in. Peer pressure is universal. It can mean pressure to conform to a certain group norm‚ or it can be the pressure to do something. Why is peer group pressure more of an issue during the teen years‚ and how can
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Talcott Parsons Functionalism sees social structure or the organization of society as more important than the individual wherein‚ individuals are born into society and become the prodeuct of all the social influences around them. Moreover‚ functionalism sees society as a system where there is a set of interconnected parts which together form a whole. There is a relationship between all the parts and agents of socialization and together they all contribute to the maintenance of society as a whole
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Enterprise JavaBeans A Component Development Model Dan Ochieng ’ Odhiambo I27/1157/2007 Component Based Software Development‚ SSE 402 Mr. Peter Kimemiah March 1‚ 2011 Enterprise JavaBeans: Summary Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a managed‚ server-side component architecture for modular construction of enterprise applications. The enterprise application developer may build his/her application as a set of interconnected enterprise beans and deploy such an application in an EJB-compliant
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2014 Mackinder Rhetorical Analysis “Do you know what you are getting yourself into?”(L.5) Stated by Matt Theissen‚ the author of the song‚ “Getting Into You‚” and also lead vocalist of the Christian rock band‚ Relient K. Relient K was formed in 1998 in Canton‚ Ohio. “Getting Into You” was published on March 11‚ 2003. ((www.wikipedia.org). Relient_K) The purpose of this rhetorical analysis is to present the meaning behind the argument of “Getting Into You‚” by Relient K. If we examine the text
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What should you do if you are being backbited ? All of us always want to be congratulated by other people. But what if you suddenly being bakbited ? what should you do? Firstly‚ who can backbite you in this world?It could be anyone such as your jealously neighborhood when you seem to be better than her child. It also can be one of the girl at class when she thinks that you expressed your intelligent too much. Or the girl at the extra class always looks at you with an annoyed eyes
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What makes a good nurse? People choose nursing as a career are mostly because of family influence‚ work opportunities and the need to care and help others (Jirwe & Rudman 2012; McLaughlin et al. 2010; Mooney et al. 2008). Bearing in mind that nursing is influenced by the demand of society and social reforms‚ providing the definition of nursing is vital in order for nurses‚ other professionals and service users to know and understand the generic role of a nurse (Hall & Ritchie 2011). The World Health
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of learners they will encounter and the numerous strategies they can employ to create an effective learning environment. Although the Greek philosophers are considered to be some of the earliest thinkers on learning‚ it was not until the mid 1800’s when psychology emerged as a separate discipline that any new learning theories emerged. The first of these was behaviourism‚
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utilize a microprocessor in that they can make a socket for the CPU ’s pins to fit into instead of having to install each microprocessor manually. Much like the human brain‚ the CPU takes information from various inputs‚ such as a keyboard or mouse‚ like our brain takes from our eyes‚ hands‚ tongue‚ and nose‚ and interprets them into different meanings and determines an appropriate response. At the core of a CPU are logic gates that do
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What factors contributed to the growth of homelessness in the 1980¡¦s and 90¡¦s? This essay explores the different reasons as to why someone may become homeless. Poverty plays an important part in being homeless. According to The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia ¡§homelessness is the condition of not having a permanent place to live‚ widely perceive as a societal problem only beginning in the 1980s.¡¨ A person can become homeless for a number of reasons‚ there are also a lot of different types
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