balance sheet behavior of a large class of intermediaries, life insurance companies. The pass-through from assets to equity is …

InvestorLit is a subscription service providing reviews of institutional investment literature. The reviews cover a … wide range of investment topics and are published online. Bruce Grantier, founder of InvestorLit, is a member of the … pieces. The opinions expressed here are those of InvestorLit.Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, a 180-page book …

investment in emerging markets is greater than that in developed markets, reflecting vast opportunity. Yet, the indices (and ETFs …

This paper contrasts the investment behavior of different financial institutions in debt securities as a response to … Statistics. Banks and investment funds respond in a pro-cyclical manner to past security-specific holding period returns. In … contrast, insurance companies and pension funds act counter-cyclically; they buy when returns have been negative and sell after …

There are number of studies which favor the existence of gender bias in investment patterns. Most of the studies … (Julie R. Agnew, 2005). Some studies also contend that women are less confident about their investment decisions and earn … capacity, risk perception i.e. how they assume risk within different constraints, time horizon for investment, preference for …

We analyze a unique, comprehensive, multi-decade dataset of all communications with clients by a boutique investment … advisory and investment management firm to explore the behavior of individuals involved in financial decision making. We … propose and test a theory of self-regulation to explain both the appeal and the value of investment managers to individual …