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Life cycle versus balanced funds: An emerging market perspective

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2017
Background: Inadequate retirement savings is an international challenge. Additionally, individuals are not cognisant of how asset allocation choices ultimately impact retirement savings.
Elbie Louw   +2 more
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SHADOW PRICE IMPLICATIONS OF SEVERAL STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE CRITERIA [PDF]

open access: yes
Stochastic dominance criteria can be, but seldom are explicitly, applied to problems having continuous variables. A previously developed model is modified to facilitate exploration of sets of shadow price vectors for decreasing (non-increasing) absolute ...
McCamley, Francis P., Rudel, Richard K.
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Stochastic Dominance and Opaque Sweetening [PDF]

open access: yesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy, 2017
ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the problem of opaque sweetening and argues that one should use stochastic dominance in comparing lotteries even when dealing with incomplete orderings that allow for non-comparable outcomes.
openaire   +1 more source

Downside Risk Efficiency Under Market Distress [PDF]

open access: yes
In moments of financial distress downside risk measures like lower partial moments are more appropriate than the standard variance to characterize risk. The goal of this paper is to study how to choose optimal portfolios in these periods.
Jesús Gonzalo, José Olmo
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Apportioning of Risks via Stochastic Dominance [PDF]

open access: yes
Consider a simple two-state risk with equal probabilities for the two states. In particular, assume that the random wealth variable Xi dominates Yi via ith-order stochastic dominance for i = M,N.
Harris Schlesinger   +2 more
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Two New Tests for the Relationships of Stochastic Dominance

open access: yesAxioms
To test the relationships of stochastic dominance, this paper firstly proposes two new consistent K-S-type statistics based on a quantile rule. Then, we consider their asymptotic properties.
Weiwei Zhuang, Haowei He, Guoxin Qiu
doaj   +1 more source

Stochastic Efficiency Analysis of Community-Supported Agriculture Core Management Options

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2001
The continued decline in both the number of and the acreage in small-scale farms and rural communities, as well as food safety and environmental concerns, has heightened interest in the community-supported agriculture (CSA) concept.
Njundu Sanneh   +2 more
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