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equity premium and longevity insurance in her retirement portfolio. Even without bequests, she will not fully annuitize …
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(static asset allocation), and some type of portfolio insurance. We use a simulation methodology to compare hedging …
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We investigate the characteristics of infrastructure as an asset class from an investment perspective of a limited partner. While non U.S. institutional investors gain exposure to infrastructure assets through a mix of direct investments and private fund vehicles, U.S. investors predominantly...
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As part of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) program, the European Commission has pledged to issue up to EUR 250 billion of the NGEU bonds as green bonds, in order to confirm their commitment to sustainable finance and to support the transition towards a greener Europe. Thereby, the EU is not only...
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of risk, return and maturity. The major types of institutional investors in Germany are insurance companies and …
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of risk, return and maturity. The major types of institutional investors in Germany are insurance companies and …
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The direct financial impact of the financial crisis has been to deal a heavy blow to investment-based pensions; many workers lost a substantial portion of their retirement saving. The financial sector implosion produced an economic crisis for the rest of the economy via high unemployment and...
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In this paper we analyze the relation between fund performance and market share. Using three performance measures we first establish that significant differences in the risk-adjusted returns of the funds in the sample exist. Thus, investors may react to past fund performance when making their...
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How might retirees consider deploying the retirement assets accumulated in a defined contribution pension plan? One possibility would be to purchase an immediate annuity. Another approach, called the phased withdrawal strategy in the literature, would have the retiree invest his funds and then...
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-fund cash flows (CFCFs), a liquidity support mechanism provided by matching distributions and capital calls within a VC fund … family. The dynamics of this mechanism coincide with the sensitivity of different stage projects owing to market liquidity … conditions. We find that the early-stage funds demand relatively more intra-family CFCFs than later-stage funds during liquidity …
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