Indizes im Wirtschafts- und Sozialleben sowie am Kapitalmarkt -- Anwendung von Aktienindizes -- Anlage in Indexprodukten -- Fehlinterpretationen von Indizes im Anlagealltag -- Konstruktion von Indizes.

This paper investigates how the introduction of an index security directly or indirectly impacts the underlying-index spot-futures pricing. Using intraday data for financial instruments related to the CAC 40 index, we do not find that the spot-futures price efficiency improvement observed after...

The Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are relatively new products in the Indian capital market, gaining popularity among investors in India. ETF has opened investment opportunities for retail as well as institutional investors. The investors have the option to expose their portfolio to overseas stock...

Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) were established in Europe in 2000 and have grown to a size of over 200 bn US$. Some issuers use a full replication strategy while others prefer a swap based approach. The ETF are dealt parallelly in the primary and in the secondary market, as new ETFs can be created...