Stabilität versus Aktualität – Wann sind stabile Agency-Ratings marktbasierten Bewertungen vorzuziehen? Die Arbeit analysiert auf theoretischer Basis Vor- und Nachteile einer langfristig stabilen versus aktuellen, volatileren Informationsbasis anhand strategischer Portfolioentscheidungen....

Performance fees for portfolio managers are designed to align the managers' goals withthose of the investors and to motivate managers to aquire "superior" information and tomake better investment decisions. A part of the literature analyzes performance fees on thebasis of market valuation. In...

Performance fees for portfolio managers are designed to align the managers' goals with those of the investors and to motivate managers to aquire superior information and to make better investment decisions. A part of the literature analyzes performance fees on the basis of market valuation. In...

Rating-Meldungen europäischer Staaten und Werteffekte bei US-Banken: Eine Note zur Interdependenz globaler Kapitalmärkte Im Zuge der europäischen Schuldenkrise stellt sich die Frage, ob sich das Banken- und Finanzsystem der USA durch Ansteckungseffekte ebenso in Gefahr befindet. Vor dem...

In dieser Studie wird die Qualität der individuellen Gewinnprognosen von Finanzanalysten sowie deren Effizienz relativ zu einer naiven Random-Walk-Prognose untersucht. Die Datenbasis für die Untersuchung umfasst 171.281 Gewinnprognosen für Unternehmen des deutschen Kapitalmarktes. Die...

The year 2000 started the evolution of the German market for Structured Products with incorporated Hedge Fund exposures. This paper provides an extensive commentary on this fast growing segment. Our analysis suggests that the market for existing products is affected by significant heterogeneity....

Most research on the performance and risk of hedge funds are based on calculations that just use the data from one index provider. Also most product providers and even more and more investors are using hedge fund indices for benchmarking purposes. As some academic articles pointed out, the world...

Loss Given Default (LGD) is a major element for pricing credits and bonds. As there has been a substantial amount of research during the last years, this paper aims to give an overview. Initially, defaults and recovery definitions for credits and the differences to bonds are discussed. A survey...