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Raters sway insurer investments. (Villanova University's associate professor's survey): Rating agencies, with their power to judge insurer financial stability, have a greater effect on how U.S. insurers manage their investments than do money-making opportunities in capital markets, according to an industry survey. Indeed, when asked Rating agencies, with their power to...; Tags: asset, asset allocation, capital market, insurance company, investment, survey, Villanova University; Research articles 1994-12-12
Greif Inc. F4Q09 (Qtr End 10/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript: Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Chris Manuel - Keybanc Capital Markets. Christopher Manuel - Keybanc Capital Markets A couple of questions for you; first let’s start with if I can, couple of special items through the quarter, the asset disposals you had, can you...; Tags: Asset, Capital Market, Call Transcript, Earnings, Greif Inc., Asset Management, Investment, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2009-12-10
Aggregate Investment Dynamics When Firms Face Fixed Investment Cost and Capital Market Imperfections: In this paper a model of aggregate investment is derived which incorporates fixed investment costs and capital market imperfections on the micro-level. Aggregate investment reacts nonlinearly with respect to aggregate shocks to productivity and liquidity of firms. Employing non-parametric kernel estimation methods to analyze a sample of annual account data...; Tags: Capital Market, University Of Dortmund, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2003-10-01
Industry-Wide Effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 the Act is perhaps the most notable example of federal legislation aimed at reestablishing corporate accountability and restoring investor confidence. This study examines whether the capital market reactions to the passage of the Act vary among industries. It finds that some industries are positively affected,...; Tags: Capital Market, Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Human Resources, Investment, Management, Policies And Procedures, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Strategy, University Of Memphis; White papers 2005-04-28
Betting on Death and Capital Markets in Retirement: A Shortfall Risk Analysis of Life Annuities Versus Phased Withdrawal Plans: Using a range of data consistent with the German experience, the paper evaluates several alternative designs for phased withdrawal strategies, allowing for endogenous asset allocation patterns, and also allowing the worker to make decisions both about when to retire and when to switch to an annuity. The paper shows that...; Tags: Asset, Capital Market, University Of Pennsylvania, Annuity, Asset Allocation, Asset Management, Investment, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance; White papers 2004-11-02

Business Process Management in the Capital Markets: This paper signifies that BPM and automation represent the next technology frontier for these organizations. Automation of business processes in capital markets firms may be compared with the promise of factory automation a century ago, but with far greater complexity, risks and rewards. BPM initiatives, properly designed and deployed, can...; Tags: Business Process, Capital Market, BPM, Automation, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Investment, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Finance, Software; White papers 2005-03-22
Evolving Paradigms in the Regulatory World: This article focuses on strategies for the regulated environment. With the emerging importance of capital markets as a mechanism for mobilization and distribution of capital, corporations find themselves increasingly looking at earnings stability and shareholder value creation. While the capital market has remained the most efficient institution for allocating public...; Tags: Capital Market, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2004-05-06
Are You Modeling What You Intended? Building Capital Market Assumptions for Monte Carlo Simulation: Monte Carlo is one of the greatest advancements in financial services because it enables us to potentially model uncertainty. It will have utility in many areas beyond financial and retirement planning as it is most commonly used today. Financeware has been analyzing the capital markets, and how Monte Carlo modeling...; Tags: Capital Market, Modeling, Wealthcare Capital Management, Monte Carlo, Financeware, Research & Development, Financial Services, Investment, Business Operations, Finance; White papers 2003-08-15
Investment Banking and Capital Markets: Investment banks earned record profits in the first quarter of 2004. BCG's investment-banking performance index climbed 40 points to a record level of 127.6. Investment banking results were again supported by strong gains in fixed income trading while profit margins remained high due to trading revenues for the top 10...; Tags: Bank, Capital Market, Boston Consulting Group Inc., Profit Margin, Investment Banking, BCG, Financial Services, Investment, Finance; White papers 2004-05-24
The Capital Market Implications of the Frequency of Interim Financial Reporting: An International Analysis: This study examines empirically the extent to which the frequency of interim financial reporting affects stock price volatility over the course of the fiscal year in four countries with different interim reporting regimes: the United States and Canada with quarterly reporting, and Great Britain and Australia with semi-annual interim reporting....; Tags: Capital Market, Volatility, Financial Reporting, Financial, New Jersey, Great Britain, Analysis, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2003-04-18
Debt Crises and the Development of International Capital Markets: Crises on external sovereign debt are typically defined as defaults. Such a definition accurately captures debt-servicing difficulties in the 1980s, a period of numerous defaults on bank loans. However, defining defaults as debt crises is problematic for the 1990s, when sovereign bond markets emerged. In contrast to the 1980s, the...; Tags: Capital Market, Bond, Debt Crise, Investment, Finance; White papers 2004-03-01
A Portfolio Selection and Capital Asset Pricing Model: The aim of this paper is to improve the characterization of a capital market within the CAPM without losing its simplicity and explanatory power. To highlight the peculiarities of the model, the main steps in the development of the standard CAPM are briefly reviewed. The standard CAPM is extended so...; Tags: Capital Asset Pricing Model, Capital Market, UniversitÃ Carlo Cattaneo, CAPM, Financial Services, Investment, Finance; White papers 2002-02-06
Capital Market Liberalization, Economic Growth, and Instability: This white paper reviews briefly the arguments for capital market liberalization, and identifies their theoretical and empirical weaknesses. This provides the foundations for the argument for intervention in short-term capital flows. The paper further concludes with a brief discussion of the various ways in which such interventions may be implemented.; Tags: Capital Market, Reed Elsevier Inc., Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2000-04-27
Evaluation of Exchange-Rate, Capital Market, and Dollarization Regimes in the Presence of Sudden Stops: The literature has not being able to identify clear-cut real effects of exchange-rate regimes on output growth. Similarly, no definitive view emerges from the literature in regard to the effects of open capital markets on macroeconomic performance. The paper attributes the failure of the literature to fundamental flaws, consisting of...; Tags: Capital Market, Investment, Financial Services, Free Trade, Finance; White papers 2005-02-01
Testing Alternative Theories of Property Price-Trading Volume With Commercial Real Estate Market Data: The significant price-trading volume correlation found in the residential property market presents a challenge to the rational expectation hypothesis. Existing theories account for this fact with either capital market imperfection (down-payment effect or loss-aversion consideration) or imperfect information search theoretic models. This paper employs data from both the sale and...; Tags: Capital Market, Theory, Commercial Real Estate, Chinese University Of Hong Kong, Policy Implication, Financial Services, Real Estate, Investment, Business Operations, Finance; White papers 2004-02-01
Contractual Savings, Capital Markets and Firms Financing Choices: This paper analyzes the relationship between the development, and asset allocation, of contractual savings and firms' capital structures. It develops a simple model of firms' leverage and debt maturity decision. It illustrates the mechanisms through which contractual savings development may affect corporate financing patterns. In market-based economies, an increase in...; Tags: Capital Market, World Bank Group, Savings, Financing, Free Trade, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2001-03-01
Contractual Savings or Stock Markets Development: Which Leads?: This paper studies the relationship between the development of contractual savings assets of pension funds and life insurance companies and capital markets. The focus is on the macroeconomic and financial effects of contractual savings' development. New theoretical ideas and empirical results are presented. At the theoretical level, it explains how...; Tags: Capital Market, Financial, World Bank Group, Stock, Savings, Development, Stock Market, Investment, Free Trade, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2000-08-01
The Road to Extinction: Commons With Capital Markets: Competitive agents extract in continuous time from a commons. Capital market access allows them to both save and borrow against their extraction stream. When the commons asset grows more quickly than the privately stored one, multiple equilibrium is found for intermediate commons endowments. In the limit, as marginal extraction costs...; Tags: Capital Market, Commons, Extinction, Welfare, University Of Birmingham, Investment, Financial Services, Real Estate, Finance, Business Operations; White papers 2004-01-22
Firm Investment, Corporate Finance, and Taxation: This paper examines the intertemporal effect of corporate income taxation on the investment behavior of a firm that faces imperfect capital markets. It shows that when capital markets are imperfect, the optimizing firm goes through different phases of growth. In this dynamic setting, the effect of a corporate tax on...; Tags: Capital Market, IMF, Financing, Taxation, Taxes, Investment, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2002-12-01
Financial Accounting Information and the Relevance/Irrelevance Issue: Some current research concludes that the numbers in financial statement are not relevant for three basic reasons. The numbers: are not isomorphic with capital market values, they do not have a future orientation, and are un-interpretable since they are based upon five different measurement attributes. The lack of isomorphism argument...; Tags: Capital Market, Financial, Canisius College, Investment, Financial Statements, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2005-02-22