This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...

The investment in commodities is starting to be more important during the last years. The paper describes the characteristics of financially important commodities. In many cases a passive investment in an index is most suitable. As the GSCI is found to be the most important, its underlying...

This paper analyses the X-efficiency level of Italian Asset Management Companies (AMC). This topic seems really important since there is a huge amount of literature that deals with X-efficiency with regard to the banking system; the aim of these works is to discover which factors can improve the...

It is a natural experiment: two highly integrated national economies, sharing a vast continent, a common language and hundreds of years of common experience. They are bound by a free trade agreement which has fostered strong trade flows in goods, services and capital. Yet, in important respects,...

Successful investment strategies are specific implementations of general theories. An investment strategy that lacks a theoretical justification is likely to be false. Hence, an asset manager should concentrate her efforts on developing a theory, rather than on back-testing potential trading...

Among diverse social media uses covered by researchers one has thus far captured surprisingly scant attention: social media as an investment class per se. Despite the fluctuating fortunes of numerous social media initial public offerings (IPOs) and their aftermarket trading, social media stocks...

This paper provides evidence that stock returns of financial conglomerates are affected by how successful certain funds of its asset management division are. The results indicate a spillover effect between management companies with top-performing funds and the stocks of the parent firm. I find...

This paper analyzes the approaches adopted by institutional investors to manage climate risk in their portfolios and proposes policies to increase climate awareness in this large segment of the capital markets. Because of their size and their role as conduit of savers' climate concerns to the...

This paper analyses the Business Angel (BA) portfolio of the European Angels Fund (EAF), an initiative of the European Investment Fund, which engages in co-investment relationships with experienced business angels across Europe. It uses EIF’s proprietary database to shed light on a specific...

Managing risk is one of the main activities of venture capital companies. Despite the fact that this topic is of high practical relevance, only little research was published on risk management performed by venture capital companies in their ventures. Hence, we conducted a structured literature...