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private pension funds in the United States, Canada, and Europe, we find that U.S. public pension funds act on their regulatory …
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This paper investigates the characteristics of US and Canadian pension funds that allocate assets to hedge funds. The typical pension fund that invests in hedge funds is a large sophisticated pension fund that diversifies its portfolio across numerous classes of investments, private equity in...
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In this paper, I used performance measurement tools and other risk adjusted measures to analyse, evaluate, and compare the performance of Canadian hedge funds and mutual funds. In my analysis I have compared the performance of Canadian hedge funds with Canadian mutual funds having an investment...
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The forthright brand of shareholder activism hedge funds deploy became during the 2000s a significant feature of Canadian corporate governance. This paper examines hedge fund activism “Canadian style.” The paper characterizes the interventions hedge funds specialize in as “offensive”...
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We analyze the risk and return characteristics of Canadian hedge funds based on a comprehensive database we compiled. We find that Canadian hedge funds have higher risk-adjusted performance and different distributional characteristics relative to the global hedge fund indices. We investigate...
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This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
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women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator … (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of income at the household level to compute the marginal tax rates faced by … each individual. We then use these marginal tax rates to compute net own-wage, spouse-wage, and non-labour income. We show …
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Canada's treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public … public finance performance of non-citizens was explained by their lifetime low income and low tax payments. …
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added tax (VAT) at the subnational level of government. Canada's almost two decades of experience with just such a VAT … as Canada's federal VAT (the Goods and Services Tax, or GST) but administered by the provincial government, and the … own VATs, some have their own retail sales taxes (RSTs), and some have no sales tax at all. There is no apparent reason a …
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