Institutional Investors In Global Capital Markets

Author : Narjess Boubakri
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780522436
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Investors In Global Capital Markets written by Narjess Boubakri and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines various issues concerning the strategies of institutional investors, the role of institutional investors in corporate governance, their impact on local and international capital markets, as well as the emergence of sovereign and other asset management funds and their interactions with micro and macro economic and market environments.

Author : Gordon L. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198793219
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Investors in Global Markets written by Gordon L. Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is about what institutional investors do, how they do it, and when and where they do it; it is about the production of investment returns in the global economy. Being a text about the production process, it also tackles some of the key issues found in the academic literature on the theory of the firm.

Author : Gordon L Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192511688
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Investors in Global Markets written by Gordon L Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional Investors in Global Market provides you with a comprehensive overview about what institutional investors do, how they do it, and when and where they do it; it is about the production of investment returns in the global economy. Being a book about the production process, you learn about key issues found in the academic literature on the theory of the firm. In this case, the focus is on the global financial services industry, where the building blocks underpinning the study of industrial corporations are less relevant. You gain an understanding of how and why the production of investment returns differs from that of manufactured goods. You are provided with an analytical framework that situates financial institutions within the complex web of the intermediaries that dominate developed financial markets. In summary, you gain further insights into analysis of the organization and management of institutional investors; as well as an analysis of the global financial services industry.

Author : Dimitri Vittas
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Investors and Securities Markets written by Dimitri Vittas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December 1998 The answer varies by type of investor. Pension funds and insurance companies should be promoted for their own sake, but mutual funds are unlikely to thrive without well-regulated securities markets. Anglo-American experience suggests that institutional investors can provide a strong stimulus to market development. This takes time and requires both critical mass and conducive regulations. Institutional investors comprise pension funds, insurance companies, and mutual funds. Should a country promote their creation if it lacks well-developed securities markets? The answer to this question, says Vittas, varies by type of investor. He argues that private pension funds and insurance companies are promoted for their own sake and for their potential economic, fiscal, and financial benefits, whether or not a country already has well-developed securities markets. Mutual funds, by contrast, are unlikely to thrive without strong and well-regulated securities markets. A limited supply of financial instruments should not be a major obstacle to the creation of pension funds and insurance companies. Such institutions build up their financial resources gradually but steadily, giving reforming governments ample time to develop securities markets. More important than the prior development of securities markets is a strong and lasting political commitment to holistic reform: macroeconomic, fiscal, banking, and capital market reform, as well as pension and insurance reform. Institutional investors need to attain critical mass and to be supported by conducive regulations. Vittas reviews Anglo-American experience since the 1940s. This shows that institutional investors can serve as a countervailing force to commercial and investment banks, helping to stimulate financial innovation, modernize capital markets, enhance transparency and disclosure, strengthen corporate governance, and improve financial regulation. This paper-a product of Finance, Development Research Group-was presented at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, Latin America and the Caribbean, June 18-30, 1998, in San Salvador. The author may be contacted at [email protected].

Author : Joseph B. Oyedele
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3736946384
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Capital Flows to Infrastructure Investments written by Joseph B. Oyedele and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demand pressure and the plethora of evidences observed in the form of increasing infrastructure financing gap, ageing infrastructure, environmental factors, such as climate change and rising quality standards are factors attracting institutional and private sector participation in infrastructure investment. Therefore, the search for innovative means of financing infrastructure has become incessant. Also, the features of the financial landscape, especially in a financial crisis has further underpinned the significance of looking beyond the present infrastructure need, to a more sustained infrastructure financing scheme anticipated from institutional investors. A well established capital market has therefore been identified as a viable option for long term and steady global capital flows to financing infrastructure projects; else, the burden will remain on governments to offer direct or indirect support to private investors in attracting financing for infrastructure development. This book therefore conceptually investigates the potentials of the capital market and institutional investors’ capital flows in bridging the global infrastructure funding gap. A fundamental conclusion from the book revealed that institutional investors particularly pension funds have the capacity to pool enormous resources into the infrastructure market, thus emphatically projecting them as a force to be reckoned with in the global infrastructure investments.

Author : Theodor Baums
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311089338X
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance written by Theodor Baums and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains 23 articles by international experts, both scholars and practioners dealing with the development of institutional investors (such as banks, insurances, investment companies, pension funds etc.), their investment and voting policies, the impact on managements of the companies concerned and related issues. The consequences of the international development on capital markets as well as policy implications for the respective national legislations are treated.

Author : Kulwant Singh Phull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788177083767
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) and Capital Market in India written by Kulwant Singh Phull and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, one of the major forces changing the face and structure of international capital markets has been the flow of cross-border portfolio investments, especially by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) from developed countries to the developing economies. Portfolio investors provide institutional character to the capital markets, flavored by highly intensive research and diversified investments. FIIs are specialized financial intermediaries managing savings collectively on behalf of investors, especially small investors, towards specific objectives in terms of risks, returns, and maturity of claims. FIIs make investments in various countries to provide a measure of portfolio diversification and hedging to their assets. The forces driving the recent change in the investment portfolio of FIIs - as reflected in the growing emphasis on equities of emerging market economies - include, inter alia: (a) increased accessibility of these markets after liberalization, (b) improved marketability, (c) fewer problems relating to thin trading, and (d) improved macroeconomic fundamentals of recipient countries. This book provides a detailed account and examination of various dimensions, determinants, deterrents, and other aspects of investment flows into India through FIIs.

Author : Gordon L. Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191835131
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Investors in Global Markets written by Gordon L. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is about what institutional investors do, how they do it, and when and where they do it; it is about the production of investment returns in the global economy. Being a text about the production process, it also tackles some of the key issues found in the academic literature on the theory of the firm

Author : Frank J. Fabozzi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262351722
Total Pages : 1105 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Global Financial Markets and Institutions, fifth edition written by Frank J. Fabozzi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly revised and updated edition of a textbook for graduate students in finance, with new coverage of global financial institutions. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of a widely used textbook for graduate students in finance now provides expanded coverage of global financial institutions, with detailed comparisons of U.S. systems with non-U.S. systems. A focus on the actual practices of financial institutions prepares students for real-world problems. After an introduction to financial markets and market participants, including asset management firms, credit rating agencies, and investment banking firms, the book covers risks and asset pricing, with a new overview of risk; the structure of interest rates and interest rate and credit risks; the fundamentals of primary and secondary markets; government debt markets, with new material on non-U.S. sovereign debt markets; corporate funding markets, with new coverage of small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures; residential and commercial real estate markets; collective investment vehicles, in a chapter new to this edition; and financial derivatives, including financial futures and options, interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange derivatives, and credit risk transfer vehicles such as credit default swaps. Each chapter begins with learning objectives and ends with bullet point takeaways and questions.

Author : Pedro Matos
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1944960988
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ESG and Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World: A Critical Review written by Pedro Matos and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey examines the vibrant academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. While there is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues, responsible investors increasingly assess stocks in their portfolios based on nonfinancial data on environmental impact (e.g., carbon emissions), social impact (e.g., employee satisfaction), and governance attributes (e.g., board structure). The objective is to reduce exposure to investments that pose greater ESG risks or to influence companies to become more sustainable. One active area of research at present involves assessing portfolio risk exposure to climate change. This literature review focuses on institutional investors, which have grown in importance such that they have now become the largest holders of shares in public companies globally. Historically, institutional investors tended to concentrate their ESG efforts mostly on corporate governance (the “G” in ESG). These efforts included seeking to eliminate provisions that restrict shareholder rights and enhance managerial power, such as staggered boards, supermajority rules, golden parachutes, and poison pills. Highlights from this section: · There is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues and their materiality. · The ESG issue that gets the most attention from institutional investors is climate change, in particular their portfolio companies’ exposure to carbon risk and “stranded assets.” · Investors should be positioning themselves for increased regulation, with the regulatory agenda being more ambitious in the European Union than in the United States. Readers might come away from this survey skeptical about the potential for ESG investing to affect positive change. I prefer to characterize the current state of the literature as having a “healthy dose of skepticism,” with much more remaining to be explored. Here, I hope the reader comes away with a call to action. For the industry practitioner, I believe that the investment industry should strive to achieve positive societal goals. CFA Institute provides an exemplary case in its Future of Finance series (www.cfainstitute.org/research/future-finance). For the academic community, I suggest we ramp up research aimed at tackling some of the open questions around the pressing societal goals of ESG investing. I am optimistic that practitioners and academics will identify meaningful ways to better harness the power of global financial markets for addressing the pressing ESG issues facing our society.