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... snub to West Multiple Display Advertising Items Elegant SWF, 53-ish, dumped by French people, wltm new ...
2007 - Gale Group | TDA
ABSTRACT Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are government‐owned institutional investors pursuing political and financial investment objectives. With $8 trillion in assets, SWFs are geopolitical powerbrokers actively participating in global capital ... know little about the financial reporting consequences of SWF investment. I document evidence supporting the hypothesis that ... pursuit of political and financial investment objectives renders SWFs weak monitors. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences ... document economically significant increases in discretionary accruals for SWF target firms after SWF investment, relative to an ...
Tópico(s): Private Equity and Venture Capital
2022 - Wiley | Contemporary Accounting Research
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Natasha Fairweather, Phil Yates, Tunku Varadarajan, Alasdair Murray and Philip Bassett, Isobel Shepherd, Andrew Pierce, Political Correspondent, Nick Nuttall Environment Correspondent, Grace Bradberry, Karl Watkin (Proprietor), Martin Gilbert, Magnus Linklater, Andrew Longmore, Alexandra Frean, Media Correspondent, Richard Hobson, Harvey Elliott, David Rhys Jones, Gavin Lumsden, Alan Lee Circket Correspondent, Philip Howard, Carol Midgley, Hilary Finch, H. Rogers, David Prockter, Jeremy Kingston, Edmund Marsden Assistant Director-General, Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Roger Seruton, Lynne Truss, Carl Mortished, Morag Preston, Gillian Maxey, Stewart Tendler, Crime Correspondent, Geoff Brown, Robert Sheehan, Bridge Correspondent, Robert Miller, Jonathan Prynn, Transport Correspondent, Pat Gibson, Jill Sherman, Chief Political Correspondent, John Bryant, Steve Keenan, Paul Sykes President, Pugh & Way, Peter Capella, Caroline Merrell and Anne Ashworth, Peter Ball, Oliver August and Richard Thomson, Alice Thomson Political Reporter, Graham Clayton, Raymond Keene Chess Correspondent, Judith Shackleton, Rob Hughes Football Correspondent, Ruth Gledhill Religion Correspondent, Dalya Alberge Arts Correspondent, Peter Waymark, Michael Evans, Defence Correspondent, Alan Hamilton, Stephen Farrell, David Dabydeen, Rodney Milnes, Jill Sherman Chief Political Correspondent, Robert Nye, Philip Webster and Michael Hornsby, Michael Clark, Robert Bruce, James Landale Political Reporter, Quentin Letts, David Hands, Colin Thubron, Charles Bremner, David Charter, Philip Bassett, Industrial Editor, Luke Clancy, Peter Hansen and Daniel McGrory, Russell Kempson, Roger Boyes and Michael Hornsby, Joyce Quin, Nicholas Harling, David Miller, Barry Millington, J. W. Arriens, John Higgins, Adam Jones, Harvey Elliott Travel Correspondent, R. V. Taylor, Raymond Keene, Jonathan Prynn, Mary Allen Secretary-General, Peter Davalle, Beryl Kempner, Nigel Hawkes, Caroline Merrell, Alastair Campbell (Press Secretary to Tony Blair), Michael J Hendrie, Astronomy Correspondent, Bronwen Maddox, Jill Sherman, PHS, Eric Reguly, Damian Whitworth, Susan Gray, Roger Boyes, Sarah Cunningham, Michael Binyon and Tunku Varadarajan, Oliver August, Michael Binyon and our Foreign Staff, Stuart Patterson, Julian Muscat, Richard Duce, Christopher Thomas, William Rees-Mogg, David S. Walton, Adam Fresco and Jill Sherman, Giles Whittell, Sara McConnell, Jason Nisse, Christopher Walker, Jane Shilling, Audrey Magee, Adam Fresco and Glen Owen, Craig Lord, Des Dearlove, Kathryn Knight, Matthew Parris, Bruce Anderson, Kevin Eason, Philip Bassett, Christine Buckley and Arthur Leathley, Ben MacIntyre, Tony Dawe, Richard Beeston, Brian Glanville, Graham Searjeant, Fraser Nelson, Roger Maynard and Tim Jones, Nigel Hawkes Science Editor, John Higgins University of Shirling, Benedict Nightingale, Valerie Moyses, Dominic Kennedy, Social Affairs Correspondent, Dr Thomas Stuttaford, Marianne Curphey, Tom Rhodes and Michael Theodoulou, David Maddock, Alice Thomson, Political Reporter, David Hands, Rugby Correspondent, Jonathan Mirsky, Christopher Irvine, Jonathan J. Goldberg,
... 7.99 Isbn 0 00 638755 1 Bubbly Swf Wltm own self The Key By Susan Wicks ...
1997 - Gale Group | TDA
Ruiyuan Chen, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Feiyu Liu,
... Question/Issue Existing research on sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) has largely explored how they affect target firm ... corporate governance. This paper examines the impact of SWFs' cross‐border equity acquisitions on targets' corporate governance and the role the institutional environment of SWF countries plays in shaping this impact. Research Findings/ ... in‐differences approach and find that, on average, SWF investments are negatively related to target firms' corporate governance. This impact holds for small SWF cross‐border equity investments only and is stronger ...
Tópico(s): International Arbitration and Investment Law
2022 - Wiley | Corporate Governance An International Review
Widget Finn, Jon Ashworth, Roy Albinson, Anne McElvoy and Guy Chazan, Andrew Knight, Andrew Pierce, Holly Hill, Alexandra Frean, Patricia Davies, J. E. Habibie, Simon Barnes, Sarah Bagnall, Insurance Correspondent, Richard Russell, Alexandra Frean, Media Correspondent, Harvey Elliott, Ivo Tennant, Philip Howard, John Freeman, Ian Murray, Jeremy Kingston, David Jordan, John L. Marshall, Noel Goodwin, Michael Johnstone, Carl Mortished, Roddy Hamilton, David Flusfeder, Jonathan Mirsky, Geoff Brown, J. C. Mann, Irwin Stelzer, Rosemary Pears, Eric R. Stevens, Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent, Martin Flanagan, Antonia Simkins, Peter Ball, Graham Duffill, Raymond Keene Chess Correspondent, R. STANSFIELD(General Secretary), Ross Dunn, Rob Hughes Football Correspondent, Peter Ackroyd, Nick Nuttall Technology Correspondent, Robin Young, Stuart Jones, Tennis Correspondent, Robert Nye, Nicholas Watt, Robert Bruce, Michael Clark, Gerard van Dam, Janet Bush, Keith Pike, Jill Sherman and Richard Ford, Adam LeBor, Charles Bremner, Sarah Bagnall, Alastair Forman, Stuart Crainer, Lucy Lethbridge, Susan Gilchrist, Adam Lebor, Claire Messud, Nicholas Watt and Michael Hornsby, Adam Lebor and Tim Judah, Janet Daley, Michael Newland, Lin Jenkins, Gillian Bowditch, Geoffrey Wheeler, Alison Roberts, Jenny MacARTHUR, Marcus Binney, Raymond Keene, John Mayo, Richard Beeston, Michael Binyon and Martin Fletcher, Peter Davalle, Barry Kissell, Lawrence Freedman, Chris Lockwood, Alice Thomson, Roger Boyes, Lin Jenkins and John Vincent, Janet Bush Economics Correspondent, David OWUSU(Lay preacher), Rodney Hobson, Julian Muscat, Rupert Murdoch, John Kennedy, Richard Duce, William Rees-Mogg, Charles Doxat, Ross Tieman Industrial Correspondent, Christopher Walker, J. D. N. Retallack, Mel Webb, Gerald Larner, David Starkey, Christopher Walker, Middle East Correspondent, Kenneth Jenner, Peter Riddell, Ben MacIntyre, Ian Brodie, Alan Lee Cricket Correspondent, Richard Beeston, Dominic Milroy, Peter Guttridge, Nadine Meisner, David Walker, Kate Bassett, Nigel Hawkes Science Editor, Gita Zbavitelova, Benedict Nightingale, Dr Thomas Stuttaford, Jill Sherman, Political Correspondent, Marianne Curphey, Michael Evans Defence Correspondent, Jack Bailey, Ian Robertson, Colin Campbell, Mike Rosewell, Rowing Correspondent, Robert ROSE(Chairman), Christopher Irvine, Sam Kiley, Africa Correspondent,
... opera and German visitors Two for the connoisseur SWF SO Baden-Baden/Gielen Usher Hall Concerts High ...
1993 - Gale Group | TDA
Shanavas Syed Mohamed Puhari, Subramani Yuvaraj, Varadaraj Vasudevan, Tharmarajan Ramprasath, Rajkumar Prabhakaran, K. Arunkumar, C. Amutha, Govindan Sadasivam Selvam,
... from four brown seaweeds such as Sargassum wightii (SwF), Sargassum swartzii (SsF), Sargassum polycystum (SpF), Turbinaria ornata ( ... FPLC system. The biochemical composition analysis showed that SwF had a high content of fucoidan and sulfate, ... and SEM analysis confirmed the isolated fucoidan structures. SwF showed higher DPPH activity compared to another isolated fucoidan. In vitro studies with SwF revealed significantly decreased cytotoxicity, prevented the loss of ... and non-enzymatic activity. qRT-PCR results showed SwF significantly upregulated the Nrf2, HO-1, NQO1, and ...
Tópico(s): Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor
2022 - Wiley | Journal of Food Biochemistry
Tsegay Teame, Xuexiang Wu, Qiang Hao, Qianwen Ding, Hongliang Liu, Chao Ran, Yalin Yang, Liqiu Xia, Shaojun Wei, Zhigang Zhou, Youming Zhang, Zhen Zhang,
... investigate the effect of dietary stress worry free (SWF®) on growth, feed utilization and disease resistance of ... schrenckii). Sturgeon were fed for three weeks with SWF® supplemented or basal diet. The weight gain and ... of sturgeon fed on the diet supplemented with SWF® were significantly improved (P<0.05). SWF® supplemented diet provoked an increase in the resistance ... Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria were increased significantly in the SWF® group (P<0.05), whereas significant reduction of Actinobacteria was observed in the gut of the SWF® group compared with the control group (P<0. ...
Tópico(s): Gut microbiota and health
2020 - Elsevier BV | Aquaculture Reports
OECD iLibrary
Mitra Aliabouzar, Aniket Jivani, Xiaofang Lu, Oliver D. Kripfgans, J. Brian Fowlkes, Mario L. Fabiilli,
An ultrasound standing wave field (SWF) has been utilized in many biomedical applications. Here, we demonstrate how a SWF can enhance drug release using acoustic droplet vaporization ( ... processes such as angiogenesis. Elevated amplitudes in the SWF significantly enhanced payload release from ARSs containing dextran- ... emulsions (nominal diameter: 6 μm) compared to the -SWF condition, both at sub- and suprathreshold excitation pressures. ... 5.4% and 66.1 ± 4.4% under + SWF and -SWF conditions, respectively, on day 10. A ...
Tópico(s): Spaceflight effects on biology
2020 - Elsevier BV | Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
Alexander Street
William L. Megginson, Xuechen Gao,
... environment brings new challenges to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and forces them to adopt new strategies to ... We focus on the newly produced research on SWFs and confirm the impact of new environmental changes on SWFs' asset allocations and decision-making process. Recent studies on cross-border SWF investments show that SWFs are different from other private institutional investors although no evidence explicitly proves that SWFs have exerted political influence on recipient countries through their cross-border deals. SWFs are improving their transparency. However, the variations in ...
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
2019 - Elsevier BV | Global Finance Journal
... principles. As influential institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have attracted attention worldwide and raised concerns from ... may arise, such as: Whether and why do SWFs need to undertake SRI? How to implement SRI strategies by SWFs? Can SWFs influence corporate performance through SRI? This paper analyses the impact of SWFs in the realm of SRI and clarifies relevant legal issues concerning SRI initiatives by SWFs. It first examines the rationale of SRI and ... then questions the necessity to undertake SRI by SWFs. It discusses how to practice SRI based on ...
Tópico(s): International Arbitration and Investment Law
2017 - HBKU Press | International Review of Law
Daniel Bernet, Volker Prasuhn, Rolf Weingartner,
Abstract. Surface water floods (SWFs) have received increasing attention in the recent years. Nevertheless, we still know relatively little about where, when and why such ... introduce a method to differentiate damage caused by SWFs and fluvial floods based on the geographical location ... quantitatively answering the fundamental questions of how relevant SWF damage really is, as well as where and ... in space and time. This study reveals that SWFs are responsible for at least 45 % of the ... The Swiss lowlands are affected more heavily by SWFs than the alpine regions. At the same time, ...
Tópico(s): Hydrology and Drought Analysis
2017 - Copernicus Publications | Natural hazards and earth system sciences
Veljko Fotak, Xuechen Gao, William L. Megginson,
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) represent a new form of investment organizational structure and have grown to over $5.7 trillion assets under management ... the 35 funds that meet our definition of SWFs, then discusses their evolution from stabilization funds to SWFs and illustrates the differences and similarities between the ... funds. The most salient and controversial feature of SWFs is that they are state-owned; we survey ... the efficiency and beneficence of government control of SWF assets. We discuss the documented importance of SWF ...
Tópico(s): Private Equity and Venture Capital
2016 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... providing a comprehensive survey of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as international institutional investors and clarifying the definition of SWFs. By doing so, this paper aims to provide a balanced set of policy prescriptions towards SWFs. Design/methodology/approach – This paper conducted a comprehensive survey of world major 24 SWFs with assets under management of 500 million USD ... and governance, asset allocation and investment activities. Findings – SWFs are planning institutions with management direction. They present ...
Tópico(s): Private Equity and Venture Capital
2015 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance
William L. Megginson, Veljko Fotak,
... literature documenting the rise of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), which, with assets under management of over $5. ... finance. Research papers have analyzed the evolution of SWFs from stabilization funds to stand‐alone wealth management ... than 25 countries have launched or proposed new SWFs since January 2008. The most salient and controversial feature of SWFs is that they are state‐owned; we survey ... the efficiency and beneficence of government control of SWF assets. We discuss the documented importance of SWF ...
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
2015 - Wiley | Journal of Economic Surveys
William L. Megginson, Veljko Fotak,
... literature documenting the rise of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), which, with assets under management of over $4. ... papers have analyzed the evolution of the initial SWFs from stabilization funds to stand-alone wealth management ... than 25 countries have launched or proposed new SWFs since January 2008. The most salient and controversial feature of SWFs is that they are state-owned; we survey ... the efficiency and beneficence of government control of SWF assets. We discuss the documented importance of SWF ...
Tópico(s): International Arbitration and Investment Law
2014 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Xiaolei Sun, Jianping Li, Yongfeng Wang, Woodrow W. Clark,
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment funds that invest in real and financial assets. Since the global financial crisis in 2008, SWFs' investments have resulted in national security concerns of host countries because SWFs continue to expand rapidly and have become increasingly ... Given this background, China, which has the biggest SWF in the world, is facing severe challenges of ... of the energy investment policy of China's SWFs. This makes the SWF investments more complicated and more politically sensitive. The ...
Tópico(s): Natural Resources and Economic Development
2013 - Elsevier BV | Energy Policy
... to examine the propensity of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) for shareholder activism and their potential impact on ... methodology/approach The study highlights the relationships between SWFs and corporate governance and also applies eight antecedents/determinants of institutional activism to analyze whether SWFs have a predisposition for shareholder activism. Findings The study only finds two instances of SWF activism. Additionally, it finds that despite their mostly passive investments, SWFs possess a natural tendency toward shareholder activism. Some ...
Tópico(s): International Arbitration and Investment Law
2013 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Corporate Governance
... over $5 trillion in assets,2 wealth funds (SWFs) are increasingly important players in equity markets in ... a recent BNY Mellon survey of large corporations, SWFs were identified as particularly attractive investors.3 The ... in 2010 47% of corporates reported engaging with SWFs, in 2012 that had grown to 62%.4 ... S. markets: of the companies reporting engagement with SWFs, companies based in Western Europe had the highest ... engagement, with 79% of corporations reporting discussions with SWFs. On the other hand, at 49%, North American ...
Tópico(s): Private Equity and Venture Capital
2013 - The MIT Press | Fordham journal of corporate & financial law
Gerardo Della Sala, Thomas Hochmuth, Valeria Costantino, Roberta Teta, William H. Gerwick, Lena Gerwick, Jörn Piel, Alfonso Mangoni,
... Plakortis simplex led to the discovery of the swf family, a new group of mono‐modular type ... with sponge symbionts. Two different examples of the swf cluster were present in the metagenome of P . ... considered orthologous to the wcb/rkp cluster. The swf cluster was also found in six additional species of sponges. Therefore, the swf cluster represents the second group of mono‐modular ... to be widespread in marine sponges. The putative swf operon consists of swf A (type I PKS/FAS ), swf B (reductase and sulphotransferase domains) and swf C ( ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2013 - Wiley | Environmental Microbiology Reports
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have attracted significant attention over the past few years, as a result of their increasing role in the global ... financial and infrastructure companies in Western economies. Although SWFs provide important benefits to home, host and global ... an original and comprehensive legal analysis of the SWF phenomenon and its interaction with the preexisting framework ... concerns have prompted various Western attempts to block SWF cross-border investments through legislative reforms or ad ...
Tópico(s): Private Equity and Venture Capital
2012 - Tel Aviv University | Theoretical Inquiries in Law
Purpose – Study the role of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as an example of foreign and politically connected ... firm value.Methodology/approach – Use a sample of SWF large U.S. investments where SWFs intend to actively engage with management to analyze not only whether but also why SWF investments outperform the market in both the short- ... Findings – Foreign and politically connected large investors, like SWFs, improve firm value through the provision of SWF domestic market access and government-related contracts. In ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Finance and Governance
2011 - | International finance review
... phenomenon, we are drawn to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), as they offer a unique lens into the ... global economic integration and state sovereignty. Indeed, the SWF provides governments with a tool for both engaging ... on emerging interdisciplinary scholarship concerning the rise of SWFs by broadening the interpretation of the utility of SWFs for the sponsoring government in relation to the ... end, we offer an innovative, stylised typology of SWFs in relation to the state and sovereignty. The ... better understand the potential long‐term significance of SWFs and the factors that might underpin further development ...
Tópico(s): International Arbitration and Investment Law
2011 - Wiley | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
... phenomenon, we are drawn to sovereign wealth funds (SWF), as they offer a unique and powerful lens ... global economic integration and state sovereignty. Indeed, the SWF provides governments a tool for both engaging with ... on emerging interdisciplinary scholarship concerning the rise of SWFs by broadening the interpretation of the utility of SWFs for the sponsoring government in relation to the ... end, we offer an innovative, stylized typology of SWFs in relation to the state and its sovereignty. ... better understand the potential long-term significance of SWFs and the factors that might underpin further development ...
Tópico(s): International Arbitration and Investment Law
2010 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
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Caroline Espinosa Viana, Dylmar Penteado Dias, José Nilson França de Holanda, Ronaldo Pinheiro da Rocha Paranhos,
... possible uses of the slag of welding flux (SWF) in the civil construction. It was searched the liability of SWF as substitute of sand in the production of ... and clay for the production of ceramic bricks. SWF has origin in the submerged-arc welding (SAW), ... have been made containing the three types of SWF and in addition a reference mortar made with sand. Physical and mineralogical characteristics of each SWF were studied, and the physical properties (consistency and ... kaolinitic sedimentary clay up to 10 wt. % of SWF. The pieces were prepared by uniaxial pressing and ...
Tópico(s): Concrete and Cement Materials Research
2009 - Associação Brasileira de Soldagem | Soldagem & Inspeção