The Tasmanian subspecies of the Wedge-tailed Eagle <em>Aquila audax fleayi</em> is listed as Endangered under both federal and state threatened species legislation, with an estimated population <1000 individuals, ongoing threats. vulnerable to injury mortality from wind-power infrastructure. same true similarly sized White-bellied Sea-Eagle <em>Haliaeetus leucogaster</em...

The value chain for energy and other commodities entails physical conversions through refineries, power plants, storage facilities, and transportation and other capital-intensive infrastructure. When the operation of such commodity conversion assets occurs alongside liquid markets for the input and output commodities, the operating flexibility of conversion assets can be managed as real options...

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Potential for profi t is accompanied by possibility of loss. Commodities trading involves substantial risk of loss. Introduction Essential Beta (EB) is an investment strategy designed to achieve equity like returns with balanced portfolio volatility and a low correlation to equities. It does so by selecting the liquid markets that are essentia...

There is increasing concern about the environmental sustainability of tourism based on natural attractions. We have developed a preliminary computer-based data management system that integrates information about tourists and their use of natural assets with information about how indicators of asset health respond to increasing visitor numbers. First, we collected data on tourist flows between d...

How public pension plan assets should be invested is an important but unsettled question. Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto (2007) find that the share of state and local (S&L) plan assets held in equities has grown over time, largely in parallel with private sector practices, from an average of about 40 percent in the late 1980s to about 70 percent in 2007. This exposure led to a loss of an e...

The purpose of using estimated values such as: provisions and write-downs of assets is to limit economic risk. Provisions should protect the entity against the adverse effects of future economic events that are possible to predict, and the write-downs of assets should protect the entity against overvaluation of its assets beyond their true value. However, in business practice, these estimates, ...

The basic model for valuation of firm is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM). When investors buy stocks, they expect to receive two types of cash flow: dividend in the period during which the stock is owned, and the expected sales price at the end of the period. In the extreme example, the investor keeps the stock until the company is liquidated; in such a case, the liquidating dividend becomes t...

BACKGROUND Evidence supporting the effectiveness of a developmental-focused youth sport (DYS) program designed exclusively for elementary school aged girls is mounting. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of on the Girls on the Run program on psychological and physical assets among 3rd- to 5th-grade girls. METHODS A longitudinal quasi-experimental study was conducted to evalu...

When natural disasters afflict poor communities that lack buoyant access to financial markets, households face the unsavory choice of reducing consumption in order to protect remaining assets, or selling assets at low prices in order to maintain consumption and nutrition. Both choices are costly and damage future economic potential. Formal insurance markets would seem to offer large private and...

We model the asset allocation decision of a defined benefit pension fund in the UK using a stochastic dynamic programming approach. Our model recognizes the fact that asset allocation decisions are made by trustees who are mandated to act in the best interests of beneficiaries not by sponsoring employers and that trustees face payoffs that are linked in an indirect way to the value of the under...