The book provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the internal and external challenges of processing venture capital deals, providing an eight stage investment model that breaks down each part of the deal into its own specific challenges and rewards

Rahmenbedingungen der privaten Kapitalanlage -- Einkommensteuerliche Grundlagen in der privaten Vermögensanlage -- Einkünfte aus Kapitalvermögen und deren Besteuerung -- Besteuerung privater Veräußerungsgeschäfte -- Besteuerung ausgewählter Anlageklassen der traditionellen Kapitalanlage...

While there may be a consensus in the industry that hedge funds clones will bring better liquidity and lower fees, it is still debatable whether replication products should serve as a complement in the hedge fund allocation decision or as a replacement. This book offers the reader valuable...

This book will give the reader insight into how to model yield curves in our incomplete and imperfect financial markets. An extensive list of yield curve models are shown and discussed. Using actual market instruments, these models are then applied and the different yield curves are compared. It...

This book responds to a growing demand for mutual funds. This timely collection of original papers focuses on changes of international investment in Europe, the US and New Zealand. Using a fresh approach, innovative techniques and various models this book assesses performance and provides an...

Einleitung, Motivation und Aufbau -- Institutionelle Grundlagen -- Überblick über die Literatur zu Aktienrückkäufen -- Datenbasis und Methodik der eigenen empirischen Untersuchungen -- Ergebnisse und Interpretation der eigenen empirischen Untersuchungen -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick --...

Frank Ecker examines the performance of U.S. initial public offerings (IPOs) from 1980 to 2002. He links positive and negative abnormal returns to the deviation of the realized information risk from the expected information risk. The author proposes effective measures for a long-term profitable...

As a result of economic and structural changes, the automotive supply industry has been facing significant consolidation activity over the last twenty years. The pressure to produce better equipped and less expensive automobiles has created a growing trend towards specialization and...