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In addition to premiums, investment income is one of the two main sources of capital for property-casualty (P/C) insurance companies. This study investigates short-term equity trading behavior of P/C insurers in the United States in 2007 and 2008, and finds that over 27 percent of non-group...
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Anlageverhalten der Fondsmanager in den Vereinigten Staaten, in Deutschland sowie in der Schweiz mittels einer schriftlichen Befragung … Erkenntnisse über das Anlageverhalten von Fondsmanagern. Es zeigt sich, dass sie die Effizienz der Finanzmärkte dahingehend in … Frage stellen, dass sie nicht nur verzerrtes Anlageverhalten am Markt wahrnehmen, sondern auch selbst Phänomenen wie …
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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...
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We conduct a detailed analysis of investors in successful initial coin offerings (ICOs). The average ICO has 4,700 contributors. The median participant contributes small amounts and many investors sell their tokens before the underlying product is developed. Large presale investors obtain tokens...
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Using a large sample of institutional investors' investments in private equity funds raised between 1991 and 2011, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects their returns. Bootstrap analyses show that the variance of actual performance is higher than would be expected by chance,...
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Crowd-funded markets have recently emerged as a novel source of capital for entrepreneurs. As the economic potential of these markets is now being realized, they are beginning to go mainstream, a trend reflected by the explicit attention crowdfunding has received in the American Jobs Act as a...
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