In recent years, there has been a considerable increase in Etfs’ trading on regulated markets. While the first Etfs merely replicated popular market indexes, recently more complex products (structured Etfs) have been launched by the major issuers. This article analyzes the different types of...

Hedge funds are a complex investment instrument with a great variety of players, innovative operational features, non homogeneous target markets. Recent developments of their regulations in Europe and in the U.S. shows: the objectives of financial regulation and its related problems, the current...

Structured Etfs, differently from those of the first generation, are aimed to replicate a strategy index. This can, according to a multiplication factor, maximize or reverse the performance of a market. Individual investors are generally not aware of the ways in which structured Etfs replicate...

Exchange Traded Commodities do not have a specific fiscal discipline in Italy. For this reason the Italian Revenue Agency has provided indications about their tax treatment, thus overcoming the uncertainties of the operators and promoting the development of these instruments in the Italian market

The sector of Italian real estate asset management companies has shown a high growth in the last decade. This study, through the analysis of a sample representative of more than 80% of the market, shows how this has not yet led to a level of maturity comparable to the rest of Italian asset...

The change in taxation for Italian mutual funds establishes a level playing field among European products but introduces complexities in making a choice between mutual funds and pension funds (still taxed with maturity method), suggesting the necessity of a similar reform for pension funds taxation.

Ucits IV Directive will lead to the redefinition of business models in the field of asset management: the process centralization, the increasing use of outsourcing, the ongoing internationalization, the adoption of transnational strategies, able to combine services platforms with local higher...

The market for Italian real estate funds has been characterized in recent years by fluctuations affecting both the number of new products and their performance. It is therefore important to establish criteria for measuring the funds’ performances, based on the income return and capital growth...

Previous researches have demonstrated that consumer decisions could be affected by some biases in the supplementary pension field. Decisionmaking is very often not guided by rationality, and in many cases, if forced to choose, people will decide not to decide, passively accepting the decisions...

This paper summarizes the results attained by the Eurosystem in harmonizing the statistics used for the conduct of monetary policy. Since the creation of the euro area, in January 1999, significant progress has been made in the harmonization of data on banks' balance sheets, central banks and...