This report offers an integrated assessment of the shift within non-bank financial intermediation in real estate finance from structured products to leveraged institutions and collective investment vehicles. The paper reviews the key trends in real estate finance since the global financial...

Insurance intermediaries have a key role in the efficient functioning of insurance markets, and minimising information asymmetries and risk of adverse selection is an important consideration. Intermediaries can analyse the needs of insurance consumers, and advise on appropriate solutions and...

This books explores the international aspects of pension reform, private savings and volatile capital markets and clarifies how they relate to each other. Building the case for the pension-improving benefits of global asset diversification, analysing the implications of financial reform for...

This dataset presents financial assets and liabilities, as well as non-financial assets, of institutional investors. Data are broken down by type of investor: investment funds (money market funds, equity funds, hedge funds, bond funds, mixed funds, open-end investment funds, real estates funds,...

This dataset contains indicators on the financial assets and liabilities of investment funds, insurance corporations and pension funds. The indicators measure the total financial assets and liabilities as percentage of GDP for each type of institutional investor, the portfolio composition by...

This report was co-drafted by the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate and the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. After a brief description of the volumes and allocation of assets of institutional investors globally as well as the trends (Chapter 1. ), the report analyses the...