The contemporary crisis has brought into attention the hedge funds activity, with respect to high performance achieved levels, management techniques employed and high professionalism of the management. Being focused on higher returns to the market indices, hedge funds differ substantially to...

We examine the determinants of commercial real estate investments using a unique set of panel data series for 47 countries worldwide, ranging from 2000 to 2009. We explore how different socio-economic, demographic and institutional characteristics affect commercial real estate investment...

This paper assesses the impact of variable investment-linked deferred annuities (VILDAs) on lifecycle consumption, saving, and portfolio allocation patterns given stochastic and systematic mortality. Insurers have taken two approaches to manage systematic mortality risks, namely self-insurance...

Este trabajo desarrolla un análisis empírico de la persistencia en la performance de los fondos de inversión españoles de renta variable nacional. Como medidas de performance emplea el alfa de Jensen y un ratio novedoso desarrollado por Ferruz y Sarto perteneciente a la familia del índice...

A line of recent studies cast doubt on the efficacy of the lifecycle investment strategy, which calls for switching into a more conservative investment portfolio as retirement approaches, as a suitable way to provide for the retirement needs of workers with defined-contribution pensions. After...

Basu and Drew (in the JPM Spring 2009 issue) argue that lifecycle asset allocation strategies are counterproductive to the retirement savings goals of typical individual investors. Because of the portfolio size effect, most portfolio growth will occur in the years just before retirement when...

The Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) of Sri Lanka is a defined-contribution pension fund whose pooled asset holdings consist mainly of local government bonds. Regulations prohibit international diversification, and this paper aims to quantify the extent of the potential harms, if any, caused by...

Reforms have begun in Pakistan to sustain the funded pension scheme for government-operated pension schemes such as the Employees Old Age Benefit Institution (EOBI). Presently, the EOBI operates its own fund and invests most of its assets in government-backed securities which are basically...

This paper investigates the determinants of investment decisions on Spanish mon- ey market funds. It belongs, therefore, to the growing area of behavioural finance. The study offers a double perspective because it analyses both money and investor flows. The empirical evidence shows that past...

El ahorro pensional colombiano depende en gran medida de las decisiones de inversión tomadas por las administradoras de los fondos de pensiones (AFP) obligatorias. Para un futuro pensionado es de natural interés analizar la eficiencia financiera de estos portafolios. En el presente trabajo se...