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• Trade Policies and the Legal Perspective of Electronic Banking Activities in the Single European Market

  BNET - 2004-08-02

  An undiluted policy of mutual recognition and "home country" control is often regarded as an effective remedy to the dysfunction of the single financial area. This paper intends to support this argument. In particular, it will make the case for genuine "home country" banking supervision over cross-border electronic banking activities...

  Tags: Electronic Banking, Financial, University Of London, Banking, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

• Institutional Trading and Return Autocorrelation: Empirical Evidence on Polish Pension Fund Investors' Behavior

  BNET - 2003-07-01

  This paper extends the empirical finance literature about the influence of institutional traders by investigating the impact of Polish pension funds trading on individual stock return autocorrelation. The pension reform in 1999 and the associated increase in institutional traders' investment activities provides the unique opportunity to receive additional insight into...

  Tags: Pension Fund, Trader, University Of London, Investor, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance

• Institutional Investors, Financial Market Efficiency and Financial Stability

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  Institutional investors have grown strongly in the past few decades, as a consequence not only of the overall expansion of financial sectors relative to GDP, but also a boost in their share of total financial claims. Pension saving is likely to increase sharply over the next twenty years as individuals...

  Tags: Financial, Financial Market, University Of London, Investor, Financial Accounting, Finance

• What Has the Fund Manager Done for Me? A Value-Based Approach to Investment Performance Measurement

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  In many circumstances, it is unsatisfactory to measure portfolio performance using time-weighted rates of return. There are well known problems with performance attribution analysis using time-weighted returns in a multi-interval context, and it is impossible to measure the contribution of a portfolio's manager to the wealth of an individual investor....

  Tags: Performance, Investment, University Of London, Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance