The investment seeks to maximize long-term total return. Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (including investment borrowings) in a portfolio of fixed ...

For most Americans and Europeans alive today, a world of anarchy probably never felt quite real. Since 1945, the United States and its allies crafted and maintained an order that while neither fully ...

Banking is entering a period where long-standing constraints are fading away. For decades, limitations in technology, organizational design, risk appetite and even imagination served as quiet ...

Abstract: We present an open source toolbox in Scilab for multivariate polynomial optimization based on the Bernstein form. The developed toolbox finds the global minimum of unconstrained polynomial ...

Implementation of numerical optimization algorithms in MATLAB, including derivative-free and gradient-based methods for unconstrained problems, and projection techniques for constrained optimization.

As documented numerous times, a growing number of Americans today believe that freedom is the ability of individuals and organizations to do what they want, when they want, no matter how it affects ...

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You make decisions every day. Some are big, and some are small. But even the small decisions involve a great deal of complexity. Let me show you what I mean. Take something you probably do regularly: ...

Problem definition: Assortment selection is one of the most important decisions faced by retailers. Most existing papers in the literature assume that customers select at most one item out of the ...