This is a proposal for a new type of fund for financing small and medium-sized enterprises, which can also provide a safe form of investment with good rates of return for small private investors and create a revenue stream for government

This paper will cover investing in commodities through futures contracts. It will note the unique sources of risk and return for such investments. We will also discuss the factors that one should take into consideration before deciding upon how much of their portfolio should be in commodities....

The object of this study is to analyze investment efficiency of pension funds by examining the portfolios of four mandatory pension funds (AZ, Erste Plavi, PBZ Croatia osiguranje and Raiffeisen). In this study, the pension system is analyzed through two step procedure. The study will first focus...

This paper characterizes how firms' strategic interaction in product markets affects the industry dynamics of investment and expected returns. In imperfectly competitive industries, a firm's exposure to systematic risk is jointly affected by its own investment strategy and the investment...

Failure to correct for pension risk leads to upward-biased discount rate estimates in firms with pension risk exposure. The result is a negative and economically significant relation between pension risk and corporate investment. The effect is confined to investment decisions that require...