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• 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

• Institutional Investors, Corporate Governance and the Performance of the Corporate Sector

  BNET - 2002-05-01

  Proportions of equity held by institutional investors are rising across all OECD countries. Paradigms of corporate governance involving a key role for institutions are market control via equity the takeover sanction, market control via debt LBOs and direct control via equity corporate governance activism. This article present result for the...

  Tags: Performance, Equity, University Of London, Investor, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Financial Services, Investment, Business Operations, Finance