He said that while returns for the best-performing 10-year private-equity funds from 1986 to 2003 were 12%, and 11.9% for hedge funds, the maturation of U.S. private equity is now generating mediocre performance, mimicking money-market returns.
Thus Pink's MTV awards performance mimics a Masonic initiation; Jay-Z's Run This Town trumpets the coming of the New World Order (NWO); and the video for Black Eyed Peas' Imma Be Rocking That Body advances "the transhumanist and police state agenda".
Tino Sehgal's performances, or those of Sharon Hayes, make us think; Hayes's confrontational performances sometimes mimic political demonstrations, a mix of theatre and protest.
Customers realised that much of the funds' performance simply mimicked the relevant index.
For example, passive funds, or trackers, come with low annual management charges of 0.2%-0.450.2%-0.45%ir performance typically mimics a particular index, such as the FTSE 100.
Deregulation, privatisation, so-called public-private partnerships, proxy markets, performance indicators mimicking those of corporate management and a systematic assault on professional autonomy narrowed the public realm and blurred the distinction between it and the market realm.
In a performance closely mimicking yesterday's trading pattern, stocks shot up at the end of today's session as investors cast off nervousness about emerging markets and concentrated on better-than-expected earnings at home.
As shown in figure 3, the pattern of model performance closely mimics findings in a lexical disambiguation experiment in humans [7].
Subjects receiving GHRH also showed no change in scores on an integrated physical functional performance test mimicking activities of daily living, but there was a significant decline in physical function in the placebo group (Merriam et al 1997, 2003; Cummings and Merriam 2003).
Do you feel like your performance has to mimic that of the usual performer?
