We have also incorporated important socio-demographic characteristics, such as family size, asset holding and source of income.
Adjusting for size, asset management firms on average charge mutual funds 67 cents per $100 invested, versus 28 cents for pension funds, representing a 140% premium, according to "Mutual Fund Advisory Fees: The Cost of Conflicts of Interest," a 2001 study by academics John Freeman and Stewart Brown.
Over the past few decades, multinational corporations have grown significantly in terms of size, assets, resource control and revenue, not to mention societal influence.
To evaluate socioeconomic status, we asked about household size, assets, income, and education.
When Prudential of Britain agreed last week to buy American General, the big Texas life insurer, for $26.5 billion, the deal left the Liberty Financial Companies, a modest-size asset-management company in Boston, out in the cold.
Evidence from past studies has shown that farm size (farm asset value) is inversely proportional to participation in off-farm work.
Finally, seroprevalence varied substantially according to housing standards, especially with respect to construction type, household size and asset index (Table 2).
After controlling for potential confounders, particularly age, education, marital status, household size, household asset holdings, duration of stay in slums and VO membership, no single group of factors had a notable effect on the retention of volunteer CHWs.
The independent variables include hospital size (Total Assets), capital structure (Financial Leverage), profitability (Profit Margin), operating efficiency (Asset Turnover, Days Patients Accounts Receivable, and Average Age Of Plant), asset liquidity (Current Ratio and Days Cash On Hand), and labor costs (Salary to Revenue).
After all, the support these firms received was based on the size of assets before the financial panic began, not the size of those assets today.
Anecdotally, we know that size and assets are critical.
