The data set used in the analysis was obtained from the CRSP Survivor-Bias-Free U.S. Mutual Fund Database.

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His five-year performance trumps every single stock fund in Lipper's database.

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We need systems that make positions transparent in a single database and then tag them to exposures in a mutual fund, bonds or a hedge fund so if you want to see the accounting position you can get it across different types of holdings.

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Ryan Tagal, who is building the database, says it is uphill work, because hedge-fund managers are not in the habit of sharing information.

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Chemist Gregory Verdine was a Harvard professor with a position at a venture fund, but neither job was helping get his new project--building a vast database of natural chemicals that might work as drugs--the money it needed to take off.

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The fund would serve as a unified clearinghouse that would collect payments from brands and maintain a transparent database of injured and dead workers, said Tessel Pauli of the Amsterdam-based Clean Clothes Campaign, which is among the groups working to create the fund.

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At one time, the information from all these different bodies was co-ordinated in a national equine database, but this was closed in September 2012 when Defra said they would no longer fund it.

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