The analysis from stock exchange perspective of the period 2007-2012 emphasizes the apparent correlation of global markets, revealed by the movements in the same directions of the main mature markets. Following the contagion effect, the turbulences experienced by mature markets transferred on...

Currently, great emphasis is placed on the necessity to maintain financial stability of insurance companies. Nobody knows exactly when and if an ensured risk will occur, or what is the exact measure of compensations the insurer must pay. However, these unknown variables can be evaluated with the...

The recent years have been characterized by important challenges in all areas of the society, mainly in the financial one. The financial markets crisis had a high impact on the stock exchange, affecting mostly the emergent markets, such as Romania, which experienced a severe consequences of the...

Within financial theory and practice, there are used five main criteria for selecting investment projects: the net present value (NPV) criterion, the internal rate of return (IRR) criterion, the return term (RT) criterion, the profitability ratio (PR) criterion and the supplementary return (SR)...

When managing investment portfolios on integrated capital markets, beyond the models put forth by the modern portfolio theory, (the Markowitz model, the CML model, the CAPM model, the Treynor-Black model and more), one can successfully resort to the statistical and mathematical tools made...

One can argue – with a degree of certainty – that finance experts had long realised that the decision to invest needed to take into account both the profitability and the risk associated with the assets, but that used to be done mostly at an empirical level. The major contribution of...