infonet-economy

Performance of investment managers is predominantly evaluated against targeted benchmarks, such as stock, bond or commodity indices. However, most professional databases
do not retain timeseries for companies that disappeared, and do not necessarily track the change of constitution in these benchmarks. Consequently, standard tests of performance suffer from the “look-ahead...

Vermögende Kunden weisen eine ausgeprägte Wertschätzung für persönliche Anlageberatung auf. Dies zeigt eine repräsentative Studie des Institutes für schweizerisches Bankenwesen der Universität Zürich. Befragt wurden Schweizer Private Banking Kunden sowie Kundenberater und Exponenten des Managements Schweizer Vermögensverwalter. Allerdings geht aus der Studie auch hervor, dass sich...

Purpose – In order to classify individuals based on their needs, this paper aims to consider both self-stated attitudes and behaviours in a comprehensive range of daily financial affairs. Furthermore, it aims to study the impacts of socio-demographic variables such as gender, age, and education.

Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was answered by 1,282 respondents in...

This paper shows how independent component analysis can be used to estimate the generalized orthogonal GARCH model in a fraction of the time otherwise required. The proposed method is a two-step procedure, separating the estimation of the correlation structure from that of the univariate dynamics, thus facilitating the incorporation of non-Gaussian innovations distributions in a...

We show that prospect theory is a valuable paradigm for wealth management. It describes well how investors perceive
risk and with appropriate modeling it can be made consistent with rational decision making. Moreover, it can be
represented in a simple reward-risk diagram so that the main ideas are easily communicated to clients. Finally, we
show on data from a large...