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...

In this paper, we calculate a transaction based price index for apartments in Paris (France). The heterogeneous character of real estate is taken into account by using an econometric model. The functional form is specified by using a general Box/Cox-function. The data base covers about 65% of...

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...

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 contribution we present an empirical study that focuses the relationship between risk and return for a universe of insurance stocks in Germany during the period 1975-1998. The study is motivated by the use of a multi factor model. The proportion of explained variance ranges from 9,29% to...