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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Investment advisors"”.
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The civil liability of credit rating agencies in South African law: recent developments in comparative perspective
… actions by investors against their investment advisors, but there is now a clear, global trend where plaintiffs are casting their nets more widely and going after the financial actors allegedly responsible for the crisis itself. One class of defendants who fit squarely in this …
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Factors influencing German private equity investment in US real estate
… decisions about US real estate private equity investments. Through research and in-depth interviews with key clients and investment advisors of Taurus Investment Holdings, LLC, each factor is examined based on available data and is ranked in a significance hierarchy according to client …
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Contribution of pension funds in the development of capital markets in Tanzania
… collected from PFs, the DSE, stock brokers and investment advisors. Data collected was analysed using the spreadsheet computer software to establish evidence on the contribution of PFs to the development of DSE in terms of turnover, liquidity and portfolio ratio. The results show that there is …
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Contribution of Pension Funds in the Development of Capital Markets in tanzania
… collected from PFs, the DSE, stock brokers and investment advisors. Data collected was analysed using the spreadsheet computer software to establish evidence on the contribution of PFs to the development of DSE in terms of turnover, liquidity and portfolio ratio.The results show that there is …
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An impact investing and blended finance framework for foundations to leverage impact capital
… foundations that have deployed impact investment and structuring strategies, this study formed an understanding of how key enablers to adoption of these strategies were utilised. Thereafter, the leaders of fourteen local foundations were interviewed to expose current practices and …
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Three Perspectives of Mutual Fund Performance: The Indiviudal Investor, the Finance Professional, and the Board of Directors
… parties: individual investors, financial advisors, and the boards of directors of mutual fund companies. In the first essay, "Comparing Fund Flow Sensitivity for Load and No-Load Funds Under Different Market States," I compare the flow-performance sensitivity of no-load funds and the three …
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The disposition effect in South African Equity markets
… sooner than losses through selling profit making investments more readily than loss making investments. This behaviour has been observed in financial markets across the world and across all investor classes, albeit to varying degrees. Such trading behaviour has been found not to be profit or …
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Empirical Studies in Asset Management
… connections alter manager career concerns and if investment distinctiveness, employee risk-taking and fund performance are affected. I measure connectedness using a dataset of within-firm networks based on 13,357 mutual fund managers across 26 years. Well-connected managers within the fund family …
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Two Essays on Herding in Financial Markets
… stabilizing force, banks, insurance firms, investment companies, investment advisors, university endowments, hedge funds, and internally managed pension funds participated in herds in the rise and to a lesser extent in the fall of new economy stocks. In contrast to previous research, we find …
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Perceptions of financial counselling in Western Australia
The development of financial counselling in Australia during the past decade has been complex and fragmented. Financial counselling and rural counselling services within Western Australia are funded from a range of government, non-government and church based groups. This has contributed to problems …