/RÉSUMÉ Pension Fund Performance This report provides an analysis of aggregate investment performance by country on a risk adjusted basis using relatively standard investment performance measures. The report also describes privately managed pension funds around the world and the regulatory environment they face. It compares pension funds across countries according to total assets under manageme...

This report presents a novel representation model of parallel relational query execution plans, called DPL graphs. This model allows to deal with any kind of parallel architecture and any kind of parallel execution strategy. Based on an analysis of execution dependencies between operators, this model allows to precisely represent communications, run-time control mechanisms, scheduling constrain...