Still, it didn't change the rising defaults in GE's finance business, its dangerous reliance on commercial paper or the lackluster performance of its industrial operations.
In his paper "Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows, " published a few years ago with Antoinette Schoar of MIT, Kaplan suggests that private equity returns are worst when fundraising is strong.
On its own side's performance, the paper had some stern words.
The Miami New Times reported last week that Rodriguez is included in records the paper claims show he bought performance-enhancing drugs from a defunct Florida anti-aging clinic.
Beyond that problem, plan administrators chase performance, according to a paper from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
This is clear from the performance of the commercial-paper market, another short-term asset class that rarely hits the headlines, where rates suddenly hit six-year highs last week.
The paper examines a German wholesaler that gave its warehouse workers information on both their relative performance vis a vis other workers, and their relative pay.
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He gained fame in 1986 for coauthoring a paper pointing out that asset allocation, not stock picking, is the engine of portfolio performance.
In a new working paper, Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance, Musacchio and colleague Sergio G.
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In a new paper, Jingzhi Huang of Penn State University and Ying Wang of SUNY-Albany examined the performance of 73 hedge fund-like mutual funds during the 2007 financial crisis.
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The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST has developed a high performance flexible all-solid-state battery, an essential energy source for flexible displays (see paper in Nano Letters: "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems").
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