Real estate is the most important alternative asset class for pension funds and represents on average more than five percent of their total holdings. We employ a previously unexplored international database to examine the investments of some 880 pension funds in direct real estate and REITs over the 1990-2009 period. We document that larger funds are more likely to invest in real estate interna...

Agriculture support funds is one of the variants for supporting agricultural producers, incl. budgetary functioning, worldwide. The main sources formation and activities agriculture (in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan Armenia) were analyzed. research based on official information materials establishment functioning such (regulatory legal acts, articles association, corporate documents, financial stateme...

Linear programming is a tool that has yet to reach its full potential in power system engineering. To illustrate in a tutorial style how it is currently being applied and how its use evolved, applications are outlined in three areas: generation scheduling, loss minimization through allocation of reactive power supply, and planning of capital investments in generation equipment. The applications...