"Mutual funds are the dominant form of investment companies in the United States today, with approximately $7 trillion in assets under management. Over the past half century an important body of academic research has addressed various issues about the nature of these companies. These works focus...

Während der letzten Jahre ist die Private-Equity-Industrie, verbunden mit steigenden Fonds- und Transaktionsgrößen, rasant gewachsen. Dies stellt Fondsmanager hinsichtlich der zu erzielenden Rendite vor ganz neue Herausforderungen. Im Rahmen einer breit angelegten empirischen Untersuchung...

Problemstellung und Gang der Untersuchung -- Begriffe und Methoden -- Fondsgebundene Lebensversicherungen -- Private Equity -- Auflageort -- Modellvorschlag für mit Private Equity unterlegte Fondsgebundene Lebensversicherungen -- Vermarktung des LPX-Fonds in der Fondsgebundenen...

Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's) are a relatively new open- ended investment vehicle. Launched in 1993, their appeal as an important and unique financial product has compelled institutional and retail investors to look anew at their almost endless possibilities. This has led to their dramatic...

The inventive process is the most important driver of economic growth. Venture capital (VC) funds have contributed a small, but critical, part to the inventive process. VC funds boost the inventive process by selecting a small number of radical ideas out a large flow of ideas and invest in their...

Aronoff challenges the conventional view that reckless credit produced the US housing boom and the financial crisis, explaining how the large current account deficit, and its mercantilist origin, was a more fundamental cause

This book offers a look at equity markets and what they have experienced since the 1997 Order Handling Rules were instituted. Specifically, it examines the tremendous technology innovation, intensified competition between an expanding set of alternative trading venues, and continuing regulatory...

The book highlights the rise of Bitcoin, which is based on blockchain technology, and some of the many types of coins and tokens that emerged thereafter. Although Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have made national and international news with their dramatic rise and decline in value,...