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The main objective of this paper is to determine in what extent the performances of the privately managed pension funds in Romania, second pillar, are influenced by the investment allocation of their total net assets, in order to improve that performances. The research methodology consists in...
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economic and financial crisis, which caused a reallocation of their investments towards investments with low risk, mainly … oriented towards domestic investments. Consequence of the decline of the private pension fund assets on behalf of their … influence factors has strong implications over the declining of the contributors’ confidence in these types of investments, with …
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With this paper we seek to contribute to the literature on pension insurance systems. The financial literature tends to focus exclusively on the US pension insurance system. This is the first major empirical study to address the German occupational pension insurance (PSVaG) plan in Germany. The...
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This paper presents an extension of the Capital Assets Pricing Model (hereafter CAPM) where various utility functions are applied. Specifically, we propose an overall CAPM beta that accounts for the higher order moments and reflects the investor preferences and attitudes toward risk. We...
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This article reports a study on the performance of mutual equity funds in Brazil from January 2002 to August 2012. For the analyses, Carhart's four-factor model is used as the benchmark for performance, and bootstrap procedures are applied to separate skill from luck. The results show that...
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Teniendo en cuenta el nuevo esquema de multifondos en Colombia, perteneciente al Régimen de Ahorro Individual, se realizó un análisis mediante la aplicación de herramientas estocásticas y actuariales, con el fin de determinar el momento en el cual un agente (de acuerdo con sus...
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Longevity risk has become a major challenge for governments, individuals, and annuity providers in most countries, and especially its aggregate form, i.e. the risk of unsystematic changes to general mortality patterns, bears a large potential for accumulative losses for insurers. As obvious risk...
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Longevity risk has become a major challenge for governments, individuals, andannuity providers in most countries, and especially its aggregate form, i.e. therisk of unsystematic changes to general mortality patterns, bears a large potentialfor accumulative losses for insurers. As obvious risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248856
Longevity risk has become a major challenge for governments, individuals, and annuity providers in most countries, and especially its aggregate form, i.e. the risk of unsystematic changes to general mortality patterns, bears a large potential for accumulative losses for insurers. As obvious risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922710
and bond investments during accumulation of pension savings. The model has been proposed and analyzed by the authors. We …
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