We study international outsourcing in the asset management industry. We argue that subcontractor management companies use the funds they manage on behalf of third parties to subsidize their own inhouse funds. On average, inhouse funds outperform the outsourced funds by 7.5 basis points per...

This paper addresses management of sovereign wealth from the perspective of the theory of contingent claims. Starting with the sovereign's balance sheet, we frame sovereign fund management as an asset-liability management (ALM) problem, covering all public entities and taking explicit account of...

We develop a directional trading model and a crisis management model to measure fund manager skills more adequately. We test the robustness of both traditional market timing models and new management skill models to changes in their underlying investor utility function and excess return...

Sovereign wealth funds' (SWF) operations and strategies remain, in many cases, guarded secrets. While some confidentiality is understandable, a gap exists between what we'd like to know about SWFs and what most SWFs are willing to tell us. This report fills this information gap through proxy, by...

Dieses Buch bietet einen praxisnahen Leitfaden zum Thema Immobilien-Fondsmanagement und -Investment. Mehr als 40 Branchenexperten geben Auskunft über das Instrumentarium des Investments und Managements von indirekten Immobilienanlagen. So werden die Akteure im Markt vorgestellt, deren...

This paper appraises the various approaches that can be used to manage oil resources in order to ensure fiscal sustainability. To do this paper review the macroeconomic condition prevailing before the adoption of Sovereign wealth fund strategy and the various ways the oil resources can be...

We propose a normative strategic asset allocation model for long horizon sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) subject to a sustainable spending constraint and background risks. SWFs should have lower stock market exposure as they mature and should use the SWF to smooth business cycle shocks, rather...