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Investor irrationality and closed-end hedge funds

Zimmermann, Heinz; Dietiker, Oliver - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2009

This study questions the rationality of people investing in HFs. I usea sample of London listed closed-end hedge funds to evaluate two criteriathat imply irrational behavior. I nd that the rationality of investorscan not be rejected for the majority of time. However, the results alsoimply that...

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Flows, Performance, and Managerial Incentives in Hedge Funds

Agarwal, Vikas; Daniel, Naveen D.; Naik, Narayan Y. - 2004

Dieses Papier untersucht vier Themenbereiche: Erstens werden die Determinanten der Netto-Zuflüsse in Hedgefonds untersucht. Zweitens betrachten wir die Anreize für das Management von Hedgefonds. Drittens untersuchen wir das Verhalten von Hedgefondsinvestoren. Schliesslich betrachten wir, was...

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Hedge Funds im Urteil von Anbietern und Investoren: Eine kritische Analyse

Auckenthaler, Christoph; Skaanes, Stefan; Marin, Cristina - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2002

Mechanismen und Einsatz von Hedge Funds als Anlageinstrument werden seit längerem sowohl in der Theorei wie auch in der Praxis kontrovers diskutiert. Einerseits werden die Risiken von Hedge Funds als Argument gegen deren Einsatz aufgeführt und andererseits die statistischen Charakteristiken...

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The Swiss Solvency Test and its Market Implications

Eling, Martin; Gatzert, Nadine; Schmeiser, Hato - Institut für Versicherungswirtschaft <Sankt Gallen> - 2008

In this paper, we first discuss the characteristics and major benefits of the Swissrisk-based capital standards for insurance companies (Swiss Solvency Test), introduced in 2006. As the insurance industry is one of the largest institutional investors in Switzerland, changes to its asset and...

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Tactical Asset Allocation, Parameter Uncertainty, and Intertemporal Hedging : An Exploratory Study for the Swiss Stock Market

Rey, David - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2004

This paper examines how the evidence of stock market predictability affectsoptimal portfolio choice for buy-and-hold and dynamic investors withdifferent planning horizons. As in Barberis (2000), particular attention ispaid to estimation risk, i.e., uncertainty about the true values of the...

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Tactical Asset Allocation : An Alternative Definition

Rey, David - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2004

oneperiodoptimization framework; often the mean-variance framework ofMarkowitz (1952). They therefore neglect that an investors welfare … the difficulties when an investor applies a myopic optimizationframework in a stochastic and dynamic market environment …

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Kulturell bedingtesInvestorenverhaltenAusgewählte Probleme desKommunikations- und Informationsprozessesder Investor Relations

Enke, Margit; Reimann, Martin - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2003

ausgewähltekulturell bedingte Probleme an der Schnittstelle zwischen Investor-Relations-Managern undinstitutionellen Investoren erarbeitet …Globally operating corporations are increasingly confronted with the specific behavior of aculturally diverse investor … interface of investor relationsmanagers and institutional investors. Thus, the communication and information process ofboth …

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Satisficing in Financial Decision MakingA Theoretical and Experimental Attempt to ExploreBounded Rationality

Fellner, Gerlinde; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung … - 2006

investor decides betweena riskless bond and a risky asset, we distinguish three aspirationlevels: a lowest threshold that one …

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Investor sentiment and stock returns:Some international evidence

Schmeling, Maik - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2008

We examine whether consumer confidence – as a proxy for individual investor sentiment –affects expected stock returns …

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Are all professional investors sophisticated?

Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmeling, Maik; Schmidt, Ulrich - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2009

Existing empirical evidence is inconclusive whether professional investors show moresophisticated behavior than individual investors. Therefore, we study two importantgroups of professional investors and compare them to laymen by way of a survey coveringabout 500 investors. We find that some...

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