Cyclical investment behavior across financial institutions

Y Timmer - Journal of Financial Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper contrasts the investment behavior of different financial institutions in debt
securities as a response to past returns. For identification, I use unique security-level data …

Sentiment‐dependent impact of funding liquidity shocks on futures market liquidity

D Ryu, J Yu - Journal of Futures Markets, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the effect of funding liquidity changes on futures market liquidity, depending on
economic sentiment. Futures market liquidity improves following negative funding liquidity …

Seventy-five years of investing for future generations

D Chambers, E Dimson, C Kaffe - Financial Analysts Journal, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
University endowments invest for future generations, so their strategy should reflect their
long horizon. We researched whether they really do behave like long-term investors. We …

International investment positions revisited: Investor heterogeneity and individual security characteristics

MA Boermans, R Vermeulen - Review of International …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper contributes to the literature by empirically documenting the importance of investor
heterogeneity and security level characteristics for international investment positions. We …

Pension fund equity performance: Patience, activity or both?

TA Gonzalez, I van Lelyveld, K Lučivjanská - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2020 - Elsevier
We study how pension fund (out) performance is influenced by a) a pension fund's activity,
ie, how much the pension fund deviates in its stock allocation from typical pension fund …

The asymmetric and time-varying effects of trade policy uncertainty on the insurance premiums in China: Evidence from cross-quantilogram

F Xiang, Y Fu - Finance Research Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the asymmetric and time-varying effects of trade policy uncertainty
(TPU) on China's insurance premiums by applying the bivariate cross-quantilogram …

Home bias and local equity portfolio decisions of Chinese insurance institutional investors

S Yang, N He, H Yu - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Our paper explores whether Chinese insurance companies exhibit a local preference in
deciding their equity portfolios and the incentive of this preference. Our research finds that …

[PDF][PDF] Pension funds carbon footprint and investment trade-offs

MA Boermans, RJ Galema - DNB working papers, 2017 - dnb.nl
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, better understanding of
portfolio carbon dioxide (CO2) exposures has become increasingly important for investors …

Insurers' investments before and after the Covid-19 outbreak

F Apicella, R Gallo, G Guazzarotti - Bank of Italy Temi di …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examines the impact of the pandemic outbreak on Italian insurers' investment
decisions between 2017 and 2020. By adopting a unique security-by-security holding …

[HTML][HTML] Investment Portfolio Allocation and Insurance Solvency: New Evidence from Insurance Groups in the Era of Solvency II

T Poufinas, E Siopi - Risks, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study examines the effect of the investment portfolio structure on insurers' solvency, as
measured by the Solvency Capital Requirement ratio. An empirical sample of 88 EU-based …