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• Private equity investments stand ground.

  - 2005-05-13

  May 13, 2005 (Investor Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) Three quarters of superannuation funds in Australia still consider private equity an alternative asset class. This is according to survey of 40 funds undertaken in late 2004 and early 2005 by the University of New...

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• Insurance and Asset Pricing in Incomplete Markets With Heavy Tailed Risks

  BNET - 2004-05-18

  A model for pricing risks in incomplete markets using prices for traded assets and allowing for heavy tailed risks is developed. The approach used is based on an approximation that collapses to the CAPM for multi normal portfolios. The pricing result is derived as an approximation using elliptical distributions and...

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• Watson Wyatt gets first of three UNSW contracts.

  - 2003-09-01

  Sep 01, 2003 (Investor Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) After a six-month tender process, the University of New South Wales UNSW has awarded Watson Wyatt a contract. It has been hired as an asset consultant for the university's $A230 million long-term investment fund. The...

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• Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science Asset Management

  BNET - 2003-03-24

  Asset management is integral to the actuarial management of any financial security system, although the earliest practical developments took place in life insurance. In more recent years there has been an increased integration of modern financial theories into actuarial science & the adoption of actuarial techniques in areas of asset...

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