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- A Smarter investment strategy for Insurers
- Like many investors, insurance companies have pursued greater gains in recent years through more complex and risky ventures. Although their investment strategies have changed, their performance measures haven't - a disconnect that has exposed them to billions of dollars in losses, which have destroyed shareholder value and led ratings agencies...
- White papers
- Smart Investment Strategies for a Compliance Platform: A Ten Step Guide
- Government regulations and mandates are on the rise. Most corporate compliance offices are challenged to find compliance solutions that can scale across corporate compliance offices and also manage regulatory and compliance initiatives within respective operational and departmental areas. This paper highlights the importance of selecting the right compliance platform, which...
- White papers
- Foreign Investment Strategies And Sub-National Institutions In Emerging Markets
- Foreign investors entering emerging markets have to take strategic decisions on where and how to set up operations. These decisions have to accommodate institutional conditions that vary not only between countries, but also within the host economy. This paper offers a theoretical framework to analyse how institutions in an emerging...
- White papers 2006-06-08
- Ukraine Agricultural and Rural investment strategy (ARIS)
- The Agricultural and Rural Investment Strategy (ARIS) aims to propose a coherent vision for public investment in support of agricultural and rural development. It should guide the future investment programmes and projects in these sectors. It is a joint work between the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the UN...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- A Patent Race in a Real Options Setting: investment strategy, Valuation, CAPM Beta and Return Volatility
- This paper studies financial properties of venture-capital backed start-ups through a continuous-time real-options patent-race model. Numerical analysis shows that patent races, relative to a joint monopoly, cause over-investment, value-dissipation, a higher CAPM beta, a higher return volatility and more negative return correlation when firms intensively compete. A firm's CAPM beta...
- White papers 2005-01-12
- Growth Optimal investment strategy Efficacy: An Application on Long Run Australian Equity Data
- This paper introduces a variant of ridge regression to form the basis of one of the growth focused investment strategies. The ridge growth optimal technique overcomes the problem of numerically unstable portfolio weights that dogs the formation of short-sales allowed growth portfolios. For the short sales not allowed growth portfolio,...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Departmental investment strategy 2005-2008
- ODPM's standard practice and decision-making on assets is based on VFM, informed by best practice and using net present value in investment business cases. The net present value includes all charges including non-cash so ODPM's asset management will, like all its business decisions, meet the new resource budgeting requirements. The...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Optimal investment strategy to Minimize the Probability of Lifetime Ruin
- This article studies the problem of how individuals should invest their wealth in a risky financial market to minimize the probability that they outlive their wealth, also known as the probability of lifetime ruin. Specifically, it determines the optimal investment strategy of an individual who targets a given rate of...
- White papers 2004-10-13
- An investment strategy Based on Gearing Ratio
- This paper investigates the predictive ability of gearing in the long term for UK firms. Robustness tests are carried out to examine the returns in excess of that attainable using book to market, price earnings and size as risk factors. This paper shows that by pursuing an investment strategy based...
- White papers 2004-09-24
- Be Passive or Not?: Analyzing Passive investment strategy in a Financial Market Through Agent-Based Simulation
- Techniques in financial engineering applied to decision making of investment management. However, they sometimes fail because of unpredictable phenomena in financial markets. One is conducting research to uncover issues of financial markets through agent-based modeling. So far, they have reported on micro-macro links among agents and markets, investors' behaviors with...
- White papers 2004-05-10
- Investment Strategies in Emerging Markets: An Introduction to the Research Project
- This article investigates the foreign investment strategies in four emerging markets, their determinants, and their implications for the local economy and for public policy. The outcomes of FDI in terms of both corporate and social performance are highly dependent on how the operation is initially set-up. Entry strategies concern the...
- White papers 2004-03-16
- Investment Strategies, Fund Performance and Portfolio Characteristics
- This paper studies the relation between fund performance and the fund manager's investment strategy, which is based on the characteristics of the portfolio. The results show that neither momentum characteristics nor the valuation of stocks can explain differences in fund performance. However, the paper finds a negative firm-size effect that...
- White papers 2004-01-29
- Hotel investment strategy Annual
- Iraq War, SARS, tourist-targeted terrorist attacks, weak economic growth, Middle East uncertainty, financial meltdown in major economies, internet price gouging, airline woes and tight corporate belts. It has weathered more than its share of disturbances over recent times. However, the theme of "Recovery in Progress" underscores an industry that has...
- White papers 2004-01-06
- Have It Your Way
- Custom indexes may have many attractive features and have important roles to play in the investment process, from supporting investment strategy research to portfolio manager evaluation. First, any investment strategy that really deserves a custom index for fullest evaluation of management skill also requires reference to a standard benchmark’s asset...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Online Broker Investors: Demographic Information, investment strategy, Portfolio Positions, and Trading Activity
- The main goal of this paper is to present various descriptive statistics on demographic information, investment strategy, portfolio positions, and trading activity. The paper summarizes that online broker investors trade frequently. The median stock portfolio turnover is about 30 % per month. The average number of stocks in portfolios increases...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- A Patent Race in a Real Options Setting: investment strategy, Valuation, and Return Volatility
- This paper uses a continuous-time real-options methodology to develop a dynamic patent-race model with endogenous hazard rate, in which firms, controlled by venture capitalists, make sequential investment decisions in an environment with three types of uncertainty: market demand uncertainty (containing systematic risk), technological uncertainty (representing idiosyncratic technological risk), and competitive...
- White papers 2003-09-04
- The Case for Indexing
- An index is a group of securities chosen to represent an entire market or a portion of the market. An index investment strategy tracks the performance of an index by assembling a portfolio that invests in the same group of securities, or a sampling of the securities, that compose the...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Stock Returns Are Predictable: A Firm Level Analysis
- This paper studies return predictability at the firm level through the performance of investment strategies that use conditioning information to build unconditional efficient portfolios from individual stocks. The model that generates moments for portfolio selection is a multivariate regression of excess returns on asset pricing factors with alphas and betas...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Optimal Investment Strategies For Enhanced Productivity In The Textile Industry
- International competition has intensified in the textile industry, which has forced structural changes on this industry. Domestic firms have responded with tremendous productivity growth. However we must continue the focus on efficiency; if a country's productivity is below that of its competitors it will quickly lose market share. In the...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- The Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia: Asset Allocation, investment strategy and Governance Issues Revisited
- In this paper, one will argue that the investment performance of the EPF (Employees Provident Fund) is seriously constrained by the nature of the provident fund scheme, by the regulations imposed upon it, and by financial markets that are under-developed. One of the key conclusions is that pension reform per...
- White papers 2003-05-03
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