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Back to the Future : Conventional Investing in a Complex World
Maynard, Robert - 2011
"opportunistic" in their pursuit of investment goals. In this paper, Robert Maynard, Chief Investment Officer for the Public Employee … traditional investment plans. He advocates policies that are simple, transparent, and focused rather than adopting increasingly … popular "alternative" tactics such as illiquid instruments and vehicles, leverage, and complex, opaque investment strategies …
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Sustainable Investing During the War in Ukraine
Chen, Linquan; Chen, Yao; Zhang, Chendi - 2022
This paper investigates how sustainable investing affects returns and investor flows of U.S. equity funds during the war in Ukraine. We find that funds with high sustainability ratings, low carbon risk, and low controversial involvement underperform their low sustainability counterparts....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403206
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Inflation, Business Cycles, and Commodity Investing in Financialized Markets
Zaremba, Adam - 2015
Financialization of commodity markets has been a broadly discussed topic in recent years. However, its implications for commodity investors have not yet been fully explored. This paper concentrates on the macroeconomic determinants of commodity returns in financialized and non-financialized...
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ESG Investing
Sundaram, Anant K. - 2022
performance of two sides of the ESG coin: corporations that invest to build attractive sustainability attributes, and investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013404525
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Does Sustainable Investing Deprive Unsustainable Firms from Fresh Capital?
Blitz, David; Swinkels, Laurens; van Zanten, Jan Anton - 2020
This paper examines the sustainability characteristics of listed firms that raise fresh capital by issuing stocks or bonds. Issuance, i.e. the primary market, should be of paramount importance to sustainable investors since this is where the demand for and supply of capital meet, contrary to the...
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The importance of capital market in economy
Andrieş, Alin Marius - In: CES working papers 1 (2009) 2, pp. 69-75
All participants in capital markets are asking how to finance investments or to invest money available. The answer to these questions depends on the situation you have: deficit or surplus capital. This article addresses issues concerning the place and role of capital market within the financial...
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Corporate Financing of Investment Opportunities in a World of Institutional Cross-Ownership
Chen, Yangyang - 2020
. When a firm seeks external financing for its investment opportunities, information asymmetry arises between the firm and … investment opportunities of these firms. We then examine conditions under which the role of cross-owners is likely to be greater … and higher corporate investment. Our paper offers insight into the role of cross-ownership in reducing moral hazard and …
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The Recent Investment Activity of Global Sovereign Wealth Funds
Wiśniewski, Piotr - 2017
This chapter encapsulates the most recent findings on sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investment activity globally. The key …, SWF allocation strategies, their recent investment behavior and its likely evolution in the foreseeable future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962642
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Fossil Fuel-Related Investments and Climate Change
Schoenmaker, Dirk; Beetsma, Roel M. W. J.; de Coninck, … - 2022
Pressure is mounting on institutional investors to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from their fossil fuel-related investments. The latest climate change assessments indicate that 1.5°C emission pathways require (1) halving CO2 emissions between 2010 to 2030, and net zero CO2 in 2050;...
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Momentum investing : evidence from the US tourism and hospitality
Shaker Ahmed, Mohamed - In: European journal of management and business economics : … 31 (2022) 3, pp. 269-284
Purpose - The present research aims to examine a range of momentum trading strategies for the tourism and hospitality sector. Design/methodology/approach - The paper followed the methodology of Jegadeesh and Titman (1993) to construct the portfolios. In this methodology, all portfolios were...
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