This article investigates the characteristics of US and Canadian pension funds that allocate assets to hedge funds. The typical pension fund that invests in hedge funds is a large sophisticated pension fund that diversifies its portfolio across numerous classes of investments, private equity in...

Mutual funds industry has been sought by French politicians as mediation between the popular savings and company’s investments through the financial markets. Questioning the link between finance and industry requires analyzing the effectiveness of this mediation. This article intends firstly...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potentials offered by New Product Committees for the development of responsible innovation in the financial services industry; and to provide grounds for policy recommendations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potentials offered by New Product Committees for the development of responsible innovation in the financial services industry; and to provide grounds for policy recommendations. Design/methodology/approach - The paper takes the form of...

[fre] Le concept de place financière renvoie traditionnellement à un ensemble géographiquement intégré. Mais le développement des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication a eu pour conséquence une désintégration verticale des activités financières. Ceci...

[fre] L’exemple de la multigestion montre l’importance de savoir s’il existe réellement des styles de gestion pouvant différencier les pratiques des gérants. Cet article propose une classification et une analyse des styles de gestion fondées sur un questionnaire adressé aux gérants...

Mutual funds industry has been sought by French politicians as mediation between the popular savings and company?s investments through the financial markets. Questioning the link between finance and industry requires analyzing the effectiveness of this mediation. This article intends firstly to...

The location of financial activities is traditionally characterized by a great deal of inertia. However, the boom in new information and communication technologies, the globalization of economies and the 2007-08 financial crisis have considerably modified the geography of finance. Financial...

With financial globalization, there has been a thorough reorganization of financial activities. A new geography of finance has emerged with, first of all, activities being transferred from the historical heart of big cities to the peripheral areas. Alternative asset management that has emerged...

The mimetism observed on financial market is often explained by an individual choice. These explanations do not consider social influences of norms, organization and institutions. We propose to analyze the social roots of financial imitation by considering decision done by mutual funds’...