Poor sitting posture is a common problem among the elderly, especially in nursing homes residents.1 Contributory factors include kyphotic changes in the spine resulting in limited flexibility; decline in muscle strength and trunk control and general loss of condition, all of which impair the ability to maintain normal posture in the sitting position.2 Moreover, prolonged sitting with poor postu...

Earlier investment practices show that there lies a discrepancy between the actual fund strategy and stated fund strategy. Using a minimum spanning tree (MST) and planar maximally-filtered graph (PMFG), we build a network of open-ended funds in China’s market and investigate the evolution characteristics of the networks over multiple time periods and timescales. The evolution characteristics, e...

We argue that mutual fund investors are more sensitive to salient in-your-face fees, like loads and commissions, than operating expenses. Our empirical analysis of mutual fund flows over the last 30 years yields strong support for our contention. We find consistently negative relations between fund flows and load fees. We also document a negative relation between fund flows and commissions char...

We investigate the effectiveness of window-dressing as a potential strategy to be used by mutual fund managers to promote fund flows. Using a rank gap measure as a proxy for the likelihood that window-dressing has occurred, we find that fund investors as whole punish those managers who are suspected to have engaged in window-dressing. That is, we find a negative relation between the window-dres...

according to statistics released by agricultural insurance fund (aif) less than 4 million acres out of 90 million acres has been covered by pastures insurance. this observation along with several facts motivated authors to study possible barriers which pastures insurance has been encountered in practice. the research population included all the experts in agricultural insurance fund. small popu...

This paper discusses the performance pattern of US private equity fund from 2003 to 2013, measuring the effect of fund size and other fund characteristics as well as macroeconomic conditions on fund performance. The results shows that the number of historical investment decisively influences the performance of funds, and funds whose inception is at the peak of economic expansion seem to perform...

Abstract In order to solve problems in investor and venture fund managers remuneration paid mechanism, the paper presents the asymmetric information games existing in construction mechanism through information economics viewpoints. The paper building investor and venture fund managers remuneration paid mechanism based on principalagent theory, remuneration excitement and risk constraints. The r...

This paper analyzes the relationship between fund flow and fund managers' trading behavior with regard to the disposition effect, which is as the tendency of fund managers cash more winner stocks of portfolio holdings rather than losers. The evidence shows that the disposition effect (DE) exists among professional fund managers and the effect is linearly and negatively correlated with the magni...