The market for Italian real estate funds has been characterized in recent years by fluctuations affecting both the number of new products and their performance. It is therefore important to establish criteria for measuring the funds’ performances, based on the income return and capital growth...

The variability of cash flows of Real Estate investments is affected by specific characteristic of each investment and by the choices for the portfolio composition and for the debt structure. The Italian Real Estate funds could not be evaluated with the same approaches used for other...

The increasing adoption by traditional banks of typical direct banking methods and the growing confidence of customers demonstrate the success of this model. It is now necessary to consolidate it through the adoption of solutions that are not only based on the economic advantages that direct...

Regulation has an economic impact on banks causing high costs bothdirect and deriving from the use of resources and operating structures, undermining their competitiviness. Alternative solutions, equally effective, are needed, to avoid conflict between firms, regulators and supervisors

In the area of financial education it is important to link training content to its function and receivers, and to realize a coherent and useful format.The topics of financial education have to be related to specific areas and situations and to welldefined needs. The trainers need to understand...