1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457731303321

Autore

Gregoriou Greg N. <1956->

Titolo

Evaluating hedge fund and CTA performance [[electronic resource] ] : data envelopment analysis approach / / Greg N. Gregoriou, Joe Zhu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : J.  Wiley, c2005

ISBN

1-280-27681-9

9786610276813

0-471-73004-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Wiley finance series

Altri autori (Persone)

ZhuJoe <1968->

Disciplina

332.64/5

Soggetti

Hedge funds - Evaluation

Data envelopment analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fund selection and data envelopment analysis -- Dea models -- Classification methods -- Benchmarking models -- Data, inputs and outputs -- Application of basic dea models -- Application of returns-to-scale -- Application of context-dependent dea -- Application of fixed-and variable-benchmark models -- Closing remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

Introducing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- a quantitative approach to assess the performance of hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, and commodity trading advisors. Steep yourself in this approach with this important new book by Greg Gregoriou and Joe Zhu. ""This book steps beyond the traditional trade-off between single variables for risk and return in the determination of investment portfolios. For the first time, a comprehensive procedure is presented to compose portfolios using multiple measures of risk and return simultaneously. This approach represents a watershed in portfolio



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460941303321

Titolo

Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-253-01750-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Disciplina

170.96

Soggetti

Good and evil

Good and evil - Social aspects - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism,



military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth.