... and sector bets versus the MSCI World Index and limits the exposure to all but one of Barra s risk factors8 Risk-adjusted performance suffers as a result of these additional constraints Source: ... assess its sector otherwise All factor exposures are standardized after truncating outliers Monthly factor returns are estimated through multivariate regression of stock returns on all exposures ... investment and business strategy • Prior to joining Deutsche Asset Management, she spent 11 years as an investment strategist and manager of the Asset Allocation Strategies Group at Barclays Global...
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... section 4, we discuss our outcomes and estimation strategy, and present our findings Section concludes Background and Literature Review 2.1 Conceptual considerations Parental involvement laws ... advantage of studies based on aggregate data is that most states are represented, and this permits analyses based on pooled time-series cross-sections with state fixed effects (Ohsfeldt and Gohmann ... use the outcomes of teens ages 17 years and 10-11 months as the counterfactual, since this is the youngest group of teens who are unaffected by the law, and thus the closest in age to our treatment...
... exposures follow a discrete non-stationary process As seen, this system is essentially used to describe the dynamics of the strategy returns on the asset classes for which assumptions about the ... between the asset classes Table 5: Descriptive Statistics of Traditional Asset Classes Index MSCI US MSCI EU MSCI JP EM DWI GSCI JPMGBI CSFBHY VIX Min Max Median Mean Stdev Skewness Kurtosis -15.11 ... andbondmarkets (interest-rates) These figures are plausible given that both trading groups carry significant long or short exposure to equity index andbond futures as their main asset classes...
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... of Equity Issuance This table presents the results on real estate risk andequity issuance The dependent variable is the equity issuance dummy in the observation year The independent variables ... cross sectional variations of asset returns Fluctuations in real estate impact the real economy through its interaction with asset and credit markets Recent literature use real estate markets ... itself, but differs across the real estate assets and other corporate assets, hence I can use the exposure or relative portion of real estate assets over total assets as a good proxy for the adjustment...
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... Depository Institutions (commercial banks, savings and loan associations, mutual savings banks, credit unions); Contractual Savings Institutions (life insurance companies, fire and casualty insurance ... intermediaries Distinctions Between Securities Markets • Primary Versus Secondary Markets Primary markets are securities markets in which newly issued securities are offered for sale to buyers Secondary markets ... markets are securities markets in which existing securities that have previously been issued are resold The initial issuer raises funds only through the primary market • Debt Versus Equity Markets...
... depository institutions, investment banks, and insurance companies These institutions are simultaneously the biggest investors in and issuers of money market instruments There are specialized instruments ... face value at maturity Further, most discount securities use an ACT/ 360 day count convention In this section, we discuss how yields on discount securities are quoted, how discount securities are ... offering is announced on Mondays and is auctioned on Tuesdays Correspondingly, 3-month Nonmarketable Treasury securities are issued directly to U. S Government accounts and trust funds U. S Treasury...
... Renewable Fuel Standard mandates biofuel use The baseline assumes that authority to waive the statutory cellulosic mandate is utilized After 2013, it is also assumed that total and advanced mandates ... bushels High prices and limited supplies have resulted in sharply lower exports and feed use Those uses should rebound in 2012/13 if production increases 600 400 300 200 100 Food and industrial ... 21/22 August-July marketing year Crush and other uses of peanuts increase in response to lower prices in 2012/13, but then remain steady Food use Crush Exports Market sales as share of peanut receipts...
... microstructure differences, such as securities transaction taxes, could also alter asset allocations (see also Schwert and Seguin 1993) Lacking unusual consumption or investment opportunities that ... Charles M Engel There are six assets-dollar bonds, U. S equities, deutsche mark bonds, German equities, Japanese bonds, and Japanese equities Time is discrete Table 3.1 lists the variables used ... might seem interesting to test the assumptions underlying Model That is, does Model 4, which assumes that investors assess returns in dollar terms, outperform Model 2, which assumes that investors...
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... for banking institutions This should be based upon a cost-benefit analysis of various choices Should supervision be on the basis of separate industries or products/services? There is a wide variety ... holdings and address that risk proactively throughout all of the institutions A regulatory regime must be designed to address the broad issues of systemic risks Do differences in the size or composition ... increasingly global Citigroup does business in more than 100 countries, has roughly 40 percent of its assets and more than half of its employees outside the United States, and earns nearly half of its income...
... North versus South (Debt versus Equity) East versus West (Derivatives versus Funds) Investors Brokers, Banks, and Advisors Physical Securities Agency Purchase and Sale of Securities and the Development ... tax purposes This is important for non -U. S investors in hedge funds with U. Sequity investments, as it provides a shield against U. S estate taxes (inheritance taxes) and trade or business taxes ... banking7 services for the issuers of securities and distribute those securities through the brokers The investment firm would give the brokers research about the issue being distributed as well as research...
... degrees or less Crude oil is also classified by sulphur content Sweet crude has less than 1% sulphur content, sour crudes greater than 1% Crude prices vary depending on the oil s density, sulphur ... demand for gas Industrial demand comes primarily from manufacturing sectors such as chemicals, stone, clay and glass production, steel/metal manufacturing, and paper and paper products manufacturing ... both full-cost and successful-efforts accounting is on a unit of production basis Hence, the depreciation factor used is annual production divided by remaining reserves; although in successful-efforts...