Because of differences in accrued gains and investors' tax-sensitivity, capital gains "lock-in" varies across mutual funds even for the same stock at the same time. Using this variation, we show that tax lock-in affects funds' governance decisions. Higher tax lock-in decreases the likelihood a...

The German Retirement Saving Act instituted a new funded system of supplementary pensions coupled with a general reduction in the level of state pay-as-you-go old-age pensions. In order to qualify for tax relief, the providers of supplementary savings products must offer a guarantee of the...

Spurred on by the recent financial crises, a growing number of institutional investors are working to bypass traditional financial intermediaries, agents and centers through the development of in-house teams of investment professionals. As such, the institutional investment community, which is...

Even if the market capitalization of direct real estate is comparable to that of equities and fixed income, the data on direct real estate is very poor. It is, therefore, difficult to estimate the market risk of this important asset class. Moreover, risk systems from most vendors cover equities...

Previous researches have demonstrated that consumer decisions could be affected by some biases in the supplementary pension field. Decisionmaking is very often not guided by rationality, and in many cases, if forced to choose, people will decide not to decide, passively accepting the decisions...

The radical change, induced by the crisis, which is affecting the distribution has produced a greater supply of products and services to customers, stressing the importance of factors such as the growth in services revenues and the need to cut costs. In the new context, the supply of products...

Through a research based on a sample of 52 Italian hedge funds in the 2006-2010 period, the role of managerial incentives and discretion in hedge fund performances is analyzed. The study’s results contradict those achieved by Agarwal, Daniel and Naik in 2009, by demonstrating that in Italy the...

Recent researches on Real Estate Funds Financial Assets analyze the distinctive features and structure of Italian Reits outlining the role of shareholdings, debt and Oicr assets

Bu calismada, IMKB’de islem goren araci kurulus varantlari icin hangi fiyatlama modelinin etkin oldugunun belirlenmesi amaclanmistir. 2012 yilinda islem goren, IMKB-30 endeksine dayali 61 alim varantina ait 3,000’den fazla gozlem kullanilarak Black-Scholes, Black-Scholes-Merton, Varyansin...

In this paper we examine the market correlation and market returns from Romanian perspective. Market returns are higher in emerging markets than developed market returns, but form portfolio perspective it`s also important to evaluate how much correlations are changing in emerging markets. Our...