The Need for Insurers to Change

a benchmarking approach to optimal asset allocation for insurers and pension funds

uncertainty in the financial market will be driven by underlying brownian motions, while the assets are assumed to be general stochastic processes adapted to the filtration of the brownian motions. the goal of this study is to calculate the accumulated wealth in order to optimize the expected terminal value using a suitable utility function. this thesis introduced the lim-wong’s benchmark fun...

The Need for Change

The need for curricular reform in K-4 mathematics is clear. Such reform must address both the content and emphasis of the curriculum as well as approaches to instruction. A longstanding preoccupation with computation and other traditional skills has dominated both what mathematics is taught and the way mathematics is taught at this level. As a result, the present K-4 curriculum is narrow in sco...

The Need for Change

On 9 December 2002, the then minister of education, Professor Kader Asmal, announced that the cabinet had approved the final proposals for the restructuring of the institutional landscape of higher education in South Africa. These proposals were the culmination of a wide-ranging consultative process on the restructuring of the HE system that had begun in the early 1990s, and which had produced ...

Medical Leadership Development (MLD): the need of change and the way to approach it

The Need for the Dualist View to Combat Extremism

این مقاله می­گوید که ما هرگز از شر ذهنیت افراط­گرایی رها نخواهیم شد؛ مگر اینکه دیدگاه دوگانه انگارانه غالب و به عنوان بخشی از نظام آموزشی تعلیم داده شود. دیدگاه دوگانه انگارانه دو طرف یک استدلال را در نظر می­گیرد؛ در حالیکه دیدگاه افراط­گرایانه صراحتاً یک طرف قضیه را در نظر می­گیرد؛ بی­آنکه شایستگی­های دیدگاه مقابل را لحاظ کند.  شایستگی­های دیدگاه دوگانه انگارانه را می­توان در مدارس تعلیم داد به...