Sovereign wealth funds have rapidly become significant international institutions. The performance of funds varies substantially across countries, but comprehensive and systematic analyses of funds have been hampered by the lack of transparency of most funds. The relative transparency of the...

Un nuevo sistema de seguro de cesantía basado en cuentas individuales fue lanzado en Chile en Octubre 2002. Una de las características más interesantes del sistema está dado por el esquema de compensación del administrador de fondos, que contiene un incentivo asociado a desempeño relativo...

In this paper we consider the equilibrium effects of an institutional investor whose performance is benchmarked to an index. In a partial equilibrium setting, the objective of the institutional investor is modeled as the maximization of expected utility (an increasing and concave function, in...