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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola +4 more
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Pension Fund Performance and Costs: Small is Beautiful [PDF]
Using the CEM pension fund data set, we document the cost structure and performance of a large sample of US pension funds. To date, self-reporting biases and a deficiency of comprehensive return and cost data have severely hindered pension fund ...
Bauer, R.M.M.J. +2 more
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The Performance of Japanese Mutual Funds
Review of Financial Studies, 1997 We analyze the performance of Japanese open-type stock mutual funds for the 1981-1992 period. The results show that, regardless of the performance measures and benchmarks employed, most of the Japanese mutual funds underperform the benchmarks by between 3.6% to 10.8% per annum.
Cai, J., Chan, KC, Yamada, T.
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients frequently suffer from frailty, characterized by reduced physical function and poor prognosis. Myokines, such as myonectin, secreted by muscle, are emerging regulators of systemic health. This study investigated the relationship between serum myonectin, adipokines (adiponectin, omentin), and ...
Kenichi Kono +7 more
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Why does mutual fund performance not persist? The impact and interaction of fund flows and manager changes [PDF]
This paper investigates the reasons for the lack of long-term persistence in the investment performance of actively managed equity mutual funds. We document that the responses of investors, fund managers, and investment management companies to past ...
Bessler, Wolfgang +3 more
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Fund Network Centrality, Hard-to-Value Portfolio, and Investment Performance
Complexity, 2020 Based on the quarterly data of mutual funds in China from the fourth quarter of 2004 to the fourth quarter of 2019, this paper constructs a series of complex bipartite networks based on the overlapped portfolios of mutual funds and then explores the ...
Xiao Hu, Yimeng Cang, Long Ren, Jun Liu
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Fund Flows and Performance in Brazil
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This paper analyzes how fund flows react to past performance in the dynamic Brazilian equity fund market over the period 2001 to 2012. The study also tests for a "smart money" effect (Zheng, 1999), or whether funds that receive more money subsequently outperform those that receive less money.
Luis Berggrun, Edmundo Lizarzaburu
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Chronic micro‐inflammation in patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) is a significant driver of cardiovascular complications and diminished quality of life. While standard hemodialysis (SHD) effectively manages small‐molecule clearance, its ability to remove medium‐to‐large uremic toxins—the primary catalysts of systemic ...
Hongwei Zuo +5 more
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Mutual Fund Performance with Learning Across Funds [PDF]
This paper is based on the premise that knowledge about the alphas of one set of funds will influence an investor's beliefs about other funds. This will be true insofar as an investor's expectation about the performance of a fund is partly a belief about
Jay Shanken, Christopher S. Jones
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Sustainable mutual fund performance and flow in the recent years through the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Int Rev Financ Anal, 2022 Fang F, Parida S.
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