The present paper considers a retiree of a certain age with an initial endowment of investable wealth facing the following alternative investment opportunities. One possibility is to buy a single premium immediate annuity-contract. This insurance contract pays a life-long constant pension...

In der vorliegenden Studie wird im Kontext einer historischen Simulation Rendite und Risiko kombinierter Aktien- und Optionsstrategien untersucht. Neben den traditionellen Risikomaßen der Portofoliotheorie, Varianz bzw. Standardabweichung, wird die sehr flexible Klasse von...

Real estate is an important asset, but as direct investment linked with several difficulties. Shares of public open end funds or of real estate stock corporations represent a possible way for an investor to avoid these problems. The focus of this paper is the inflation risks of European real...

For practitioners, the Cost-Average phenomenon is part of the basic knowledge concerning investment theory. The core effect lies within the possibility to achieve in average a lower acquisition cost compared to the average price of the stock or investment fund. With the regu-lar investment of...

In this paper, we study the benefits derived from the international diversification of stock portfo-lios from the Hungarian point of view. The Hungarian Stock Exchange is an emerging market, which reopened its floor on June 21, 1990 as a consequence of the so-called transition process having...

In this paper we study the benefits derived from international diversification of stock portfolios from German and Hungarian point of view. In contrast to the German capital market, which is one of the largest in the world, the Hungarian Stock Exchange is an emerging market. The Hungarian stock...

The present paper examines the long-term risks of a representative one-time investment in German stocks (DAX/0) in real terms relative to various risk free investments (returns of 0%, 2% and 4% in real terms) as well as relative to a representative investment in German bonds (REXP). As...

A Systematic Comparison of Pension Annuities and Self-Annuitization under the Criterion of Capital Exhaustion is presented. The present paper further develops the papers of Albrecht/Goebel (SFB 504 discussion paper 00-31) and Albrecht/Maurer (SFB 504 discussion paper 01-05). The new feature is...

In the present paper we examine a concept which we claim to be more suitable than traditional ones for measuring chance and risk of a stock portfolio when options are included. After the basic shortfall risk measures have been derived systematically, the connections between these measures are...