Controls on capital inflows have been experiencing a period akin to a renaissance since the beginning of the global financial crisis in 2008, with several prominent countries choosing to impose controls; e.g., Thailand, Korea, Peru, Indonesia, and Brazil. We focus on the case of Brazil, a...

This study aims to forecast net asset values of Turkish mutual funds using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) method. In order to forecast net asset values of 38 mutual funds (19 A type and 19 B type), 6 macro economic variables are used in the period of January 2001-December 2008. Net asset...

En combinant plusieurs affectations, les grands objets urbains tels que les complexes multifonctionnels privés (centre commercial et de loisirs) ou publics-privés (stades de sport et centre commercial) qui se sont récemment multipliés en Suisse peuvent contribuer à la construction de « la...

L’objectif de cet article est de développer un cadre conceptuel, analytique et interprétatif des relations entre « finance, ville et durabilité » peu abordées jusqu’alors en géographie urbaine. Afin de répondre aux enjeux de la transformation des villes contemporaines marquées à la...

This paper investigates the determinants of public pension plan risk-taking behavior using the percentage of total plan assets invested in the equity markets and the pension asset beta as measures of investment risk. We find that government accounting standards strongly affect public fund...

A wide variety of tax regimes for (occupational) private pension saving are in place around the world. Generally, pension saving is taxed at a relatively low rate, although the revenue loss due to tax facilities for pension savings and/or pension tax expenditures may differ across countries. A...

We address the attractiveness of worldwide 66 countries for institutional real estate investments by the construction of a composite index. For the index' composition, we refer to the results of prior research on the parameters determining real estate investment activity on an aggregated country...

We develop a model of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), a defined benefit pension guarantee system for the UK, based on an analogy between pension liabilities and corporate debt obligations. We show that the PPF is likely to face many years of low claims interspersed irregularly with periods of...

Trusteed pension funds are one of the most important sources of retirement income for Canadians. They have also been one of the fastest-growing sectors of the Canadian financial market. Trusteed pension funds play an important role in capital markets, channelling billions of dollars of their...

Many, if not most, individuals cannot be regarded as ‘intelligent consumers’ when it comes to understanding and assessing different investment strategies for their defined contribution pension plans. This gives very little incentive to plan providers to improve the design of their pension...