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Style Brush: Guided Style Transfer for 3D Objects

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
We introduce Style Brush, a guided 3D style‐transfer method for textured meshes that provides precise creative control. It supports the use of multiple style images, smooth transitions and intuitive guidance, producing visually appealing textures that follow user intent as we demonstrate in our user study and results. Abstract We introduce Style Brush,
Áron Samuel Kovács, Pedro Hermosilla, Renata G. Raidou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hedged ETFs

Financial Services Review, 2023
Hedged Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) provide individual investors with the opportunity to invest in ETFs that follow strategies similar to those of hedge funds and seek returns uncorrelated with the market. In this article I analyze the performance of six different categories of 49 Hedged ETFs and 539 Hedged Mutual from January 2008 to December 2014 ...
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Measuring Thematic Funds Performance via an Approach Based on Observable and Latent Factors

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether thematic equity funds deliver abnormal performance relative to conventional global equity funds. Using Fama‐French models augmented with latent factors, we estimate fund‐level alphas, and apply the false discovery rate methodology to an estimated three‐group mixture distribution, separating good, null and bad ...
Maria Debora Braga, Gianmarco Vacca, Maria Zoia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Index Fund Ownership in the Era of Say‐on‐Pay

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether and how index funds influence executive compensation in the post‐Say‐on‐Pay era. Using the annual reconstitution of the Russell indexes as a source of exogenous variation in index fund ownership, we document a causal effect of index ownership on CEO pay structure.
Kiseo Chung, Hwanki Brian Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Does Investor Sentiment Influence South African ETF Flows During Different Market Conditions?

Economies
The exponential growth in popularity of ETFs over the last three decades has solidified ETFs as an essential component of many investors’ portfolios. Investor sentiment is one of the factors that influence market returns of ETFs during times of market ...
Paidamoyo Aurleen Shenjere, Sune Ferreira-Schenk, Fabian Moodley   +2 more
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Affiliated Mutual Funds: Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand?

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many countries, banks are the primary distribution channel for mutual funds and predominantly sell products issued by their own asset management divisions (“affiliated funds”). We examine how this lack of competition affects managerial activeness, fund performance, and investor outcomes.
Dominik Scheld, Oscar Stolper, Mario Fernandes, Kim Heyden   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decade of research on energy ETF as financial investments: bibliometric and cartographic evidence with a conceptual framework

Future Business Journal
Energy exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have emerged as significant financial instruments in shaping the global energy transition, guided by the Principles of Responsible Investment.
BHARTI Bharti, Ratna Priya, Ashish Kumar
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Approximate equiangular tight frames for compressed sensing and CDMA applications

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2017
Performance guarantees for recovery algorithms employed in sparse representations, and compressed sensing highlights the importance of incoherence. Optimal bounds of incoherence are attained by equiangular unit norm tight frames (ETFs). Although ETFs are
Evaggelia Tsiligianni, Lisimachos P. Kondi, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos   +2 more
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Exposure to Left‐Tail Risk, Risk Appetite, and Mutual Fund Flows

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a measure of aggregate tail risk, we show that a fund's sensitivity (exposure) to tail risk negatively affects the fund flows and the fund's performance. Further, a fund's tail risk sensitivity relates positively to the left‐tail risk measures of the fund.
Ali K. Malik
wiley   +1 more source

Exchange-traded funds and the future of passive investments: a bibliometric review and future research agenda

Future Business Journal
Passive investments such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs) provide an opportunity to invest in indexes, asset classes, and sectors with low maintenance costs and high transparency. Today ETFs dominate the world, with nearly 50% of the investment in the USA
Girish Joshi, Ranjan Kumar Dash
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