Factors - historically broad and persistent sources of return - can be used with simple equity-bond Reference Portfolios to meet the multiple challenges facing official reserve institutions. First, Reference Portfolios can be constructed to reflect the risk appetite of stakeholders, provide...

Online gaming has become prevalent with the rise of the internet availability, where the gaming industry is experiencing a shift in business model in the last decade. The new model of microtransaction is to make players pay for extra content and advantages to compete against other players. In...

A neural network analysis was conducted on a quantitative occupational safety and health management system (OSHMS) audit with accident data obtained from the Singapore construction industry. The analysis is meant to investigate, through a case study, how neural network methodology can be used to...

This study uses factor analysis to simplify the complex relationships among stock markets and to reduce the number of markets required for portfolio construction. Our sample consists of the US and 11 Asia-Pacific stock markets. We find that the reduced portfolio obtained from factor analysis has...