Pacific people in New Zealand are a minority ethnic population identified in national prevalence studies as having the highest risk of developing gambling problems. As earlier studies identified some links between culture and gambling for this population, our study aimed to deepen understanding of these links and their role in explaining the disproportionate gambling harms experienced by Pacifi...

In order to illustrate a recently derived covariant formalism for computing asymptotic symmetries and asymptotically conserved superpotentials in gauge theories, the case of gravity with minimally coupled scalar fields is considered and the matter contribution to the asymptotically conserved superpotentials is computed. ∗Research Associate of the Belgium National Fund for Scientific Research.

1. This study has found that psychosocial and physical factors have an impact on the level of post-stroke handicap, thereby providing direction for secondary health promotion by health professionals in both hospital and community settings. 2. It is essential to offer psychological support, implement measures to improve selfesteem, and maximise social support, especially for those without a part...

Despite pension fund managers being largely unconstrained in their investment decisions, this paper reports evidence of clustering in the performance of a large cross-section of UK pension fund managers around the median fund manager. This finding is explained in terms of the predominance of a single investment style (balanced management), the fee structures and incentives operating in the UK p...

We estimate investment style dispersions for individual actively managed equity mutual funds, which describe how widely fund investments are distributed around the core fund style along the dimensions of size, book-to-market, and momentum, respectively. We find that high style dispersions, especially that along the size dimension, are associated with superior fund performance, consistent with h...

In this paper we test the idea that hedge funds‟ capacity constraints may play a significant role on the decision of fund families to open a new hedge fund. Our empirical analysis shows that fund families‟ propensity to open new funds increases with degree of capacity constraint faced by existing funds of the families. We argue that hedge fund families face diseconomies of scale because of the ...

We test the hypothesis that capacity constraints significantly influence hedge fund families’ decision to open new funds. Hedge fund families face diseconomies of scale because of the non-scalability of their investment strategies. We propose that as the existing funds approach critical size, hedge fund families may prefer opening new funds rather than accepting new investment in the existing f...