Rules governing superannuation investments are made with respect to investment-specific risks, rather than overall portfolio risks. In particular, legislation prohibits borrowing except in specific circumstances and on a non-recourse basis. We model the distribution of leveraged portfolio...

Rules governing superannuation investments are made with respect to investment-specific risks, rather than overall portfolio risks. In particular, legislation prohibits borrowing except in specific circumstances and on a non-recourse basis. We model the distribution of leveraged portfolio...

This study investigates a new problem in the area of environmental valuation: how much is a public environmental asset worth to a private company? We ask this question in the context of dust abatement, where the asset is air quality. A company wants to know what level of dust abatement is...

Generalized linear models unite a wide variety of statistical models in a common theoretical framework. This paper discusses GLMLAB-software that enables such models to be fitted in the popular mathematical package MATLAB. It provides a graphical user interface to the powerful MATLAB...

Quality assurance and associated activities play an increasingly important role in industry today. Aims to remind the academic of the eed to understand fully and consider industrial sectors which operate in environments where computers and paper have no part to play.