Australian opposition pledges more funds

Reagan ends Asian trip , pledges more support for S . Korea

A lthough to m ost N o tre Dame and Saint M ary ’s students the c ris is in Lebanon is a far-away event seen o n ­ ly th ro u g h newspaper and te lev is ion reports, tw o students experience it from a m ore personal v ie w p o in t Sheila W halen, a Saint M ary ’s sopho­ m ore, has rece ived several le tte rs fro m M arines stationed there. Ron Karam, a freshm an from Pangborn, is from B e iru...

To Suggest More Funds , Profs , For History

C ome on, baby. Come on, .little fat girl." "Come on, sweetie. Come here before I slap you down/' "Come on. Mind your manners, young lady. Don't get smart. Put that foot down before I knock the ears off you." It Is 6 in the morning at Barn 22C at Saratoga Raceway. The grooms are in the stalls talking to the horses, shaking out the straw. Spot, the old, subdued dog, sleeps on the dark, raked-ear...

A Survival Analysis of Australian Equity Mutual Funds

Determining which types of mutual (or managed) investment funds are good financial investments is complicated by potential survivorship biases. This project adds to a small recent international literature on the patterns and determinants of mutual fund survivorship. We use statistical techniques for survival data that are rarely applied in finance. Of specific interest is the hazard rate of fun...

Tri-criterion modeling for constructing more-sustainable mutual funds

One of the most important factors shaping world outcomes is where investment dollars are placed. In this regard, there is the rapidly growing area called sustainable investing where environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) measures are taken into account. With people interested in this type of investing rarely able to gain exposure to the area other than through a mutual fund, we s...

Physicians, CIHR call for more H1N1 research funds.