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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Looking at the performance of the Google Trends Portfolio over a the seven year period (2004-2011) covered in the paper underscores the conclusion that something changed in the data used to make the predictions a few years back.

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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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Those 10 undergo rigorous performance testing at the Trumbull, Conn. headquarters by white-coated lab technicians who run millions of pieces of paper through the equipment, spill coffee into copiers and jam paper clips into fax machines.

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