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Holding Periods for Institutional Real Estate in the NCREIF Database
This study provides empirical evidence of the property tenure (holding period) for a group of U.S.-based tax-exempt institutional owners and their managers derived from the...
Company: Institutional Investor
Date: November 2000 |
Institutional Investor |
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Captured Money? Differences in the Performance Characteristics of Retail and Institutional Mutual Funds
Since the early 1990s, a number of mutual funds have emerged that cater exclusively to institutional investors, i.e. pension funds, trusts and corporate benefit plans....
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: December 2002 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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The Growth of Institutional Stock Ownership: A Promise Unfulfilled
Academics have pointed to the dramatic growth of institutional stock ownership in the United States during the past 20 years as the best hope for...
Company: Bank of America
Date: October 2000 |
Bank of America |
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In Search Of ISO: An Institutional Perspective On The Adoption Of International Management Standards
This paper analyzes the determinants of the cross-national adoption of the international Environmental Management System standard ISO 14001 using a panel of 102 countries from...
Company: Stanford Knowledgebase
Date: February 2003 |
Stanford Knowledgebase |
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Institutional Investment in REIT Common Stocks: An Examination of the Prudent Man Investment Hypothesis
This study examines the determinants of institutional investment demand for real estate investment trust (REIT) common strock and whether institutional investment decisions are influenced by...
Company: College of Business & Economics
Date: January 2003 |
College of Business & Economics |
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The Benefits Of Alternative Investment Strategies In The Institutional Portfolio
This paper presents an empirical study of the performance of Alternative Investment Strategies (AIS: hedge funds and managed futures). The different strategy sectors within the...
Company: Cole Partners
Date: November 2001 |
Cole Partners |
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Institutional Holdings and Payout Policy
This paper examines the relation between institutional holdings and payout policy in U.S. public firms. It is found that payout policy affects institutional holdings. Institutions...
Company: Cornell University
Date: August 2004 |
Cornell University |
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Institutional Investors in Germany: Insurance Companies and Investment Funds
This paper focuses on institutional investors in the German financial markets. Institutional investors are specialized financial intermediaries who collect and manage funds on behalf of...
Company: Center for Financial Studies
Date: June 2003 |
Center for Financial Studies |
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Institutional Quality and International Trade
The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, it studies the consequences of trade when institutional differences are the source of comparative advantage among countries....
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: December 2004 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Reflections on the Relation Between Institutional Transformation and Organizational Development
Leaders, managers, and consultants in organizations have used the word change frequently and even carelessly. People note that organizations are facing change when they are...
Company: continents.com
Date: January 2003 |
continents.com |
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Institutional Investors and REITS Equity Prices
In this article one investigates whether the changing composition of institutional demand for REIT stock can partially explain changes in the relative prices of the...
Company: University of Wisconsin System
Date: June 2000 |
University of Wisconsin System |
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Short Sales, Institutional Investors, and the Book-to-market Effect
When institutional ownership is low, stock loan supply tends to be sparse, and short-sale constraints are thus more likely to bind. This paper shows that...
Company: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Date: February 2003 |
Social Science Electronic Publishing |
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The Market and Technical Potential for Combined Heat and Power in the Commercial/Institutional Sector
This report characterizes typical technologies used in commercial CHP, analyzes existing CHP capacity in commercial and institutional applications, and develops estimates of additional technical potential...
Company: US Department of Energy
Date: January 2000 |
US Department of Energy |
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The Impact of Institutional Differences on Derivatives Usage: A Comparative Study of US and Dutch Firms
This paper tests the influence of institutional differences on risk management practices. It compares derivative practices of US and Dutch firms. This comparison is interesting...
Company: Johns Hopkins University
Date: August 2001 |
Johns Hopkins University |
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Institutional Trading and Return Autocorrelation: Empirical Evidence on Polish Pension Fund Investors' Behavior
This paper extends the empirical finance literature about the influence of institutional traders by investigating the impact of Polish pension funds trading on individual stock...
Company: University of London
Date: July 2003 |
University of London |
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The Long and Winding Road: Canadian Institutional Investing in an Unconstrained Environment
Until recently, investors who desired greater non-domestic exposure were forced to use derivatives or convoluted pooled on pool strategies. In the former, they gave up...
Company: Franklin Templeton Investments
Date: June 2005 |
Franklin Templeton Investments |
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Sample Institutional Research Director Cover Letter
Use this template as a cover letter to apply for the post of institutional research director. This institutional research director cover letter displays the applicant's...
Company: Job Bank USA
Date: January 2009 |
Job Bank USA |
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The Institutional Investor in Long-term Care
Practical considerations point to the benefits of institutional placement. It is helpful to consider the role of institutional investors in the context of several specific...
Company: AAHSA
Date: March 2002 |
AAHSA |
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The Equity Home Bias: Contrasting an Institutional With a Behavioral Explanation
An empirically well-established finding is that equity portfolios are concentrated in the domestic equity market of the investor. Previous theoretical and empirical analyses have mainly...
Company: finance-research.net
Date: March 2003 |
finance-research.net |
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Social Capital by Design: Structures, Strategies, and Institutional Context
The article examines social entrepreneurship from a structural perspective, distinguishing between two structures of social capital and their associated entrepreneurial strategies: structural holes and the...
Company: Humax
Date: January 2003 |
Humax |
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Why Institutional Investors Are Tapping The Asset-Based Market
While the investment grade market continues to shrink in size—particularly for true new-money deals—and the cash-flow leveraged loan market becomes more and more the domain...
Company: Bank of America Business Capital
Date: August 2003 |
Bank of America Business Capital |
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The New Market Players: Implications for Institutional Investors
"This article examines the volume and pace of investment into U.S. real estate by these new market players, along with specific structural developments and the...
Company: Institute for Fiduciary Education
Date: January 2003 |
Institute for Fiduciary Education |
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The Dynamics of Institutional and Individual Trading
In this article, one studies the daily and intra-daily cross-sectional relation between stock returns and the trading of institutional and individual investors in Nasdaq 100...
Company: American Finance Association
Date: January 2003 |
American Finance Association |
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Institutional Investors’ Expectations as a Catalyst to the Hedge Fund Industry
Despite hedge funds’ growing appeal as an alternative investment proposition, investors can pay a high price because of inefficiencies pervading the industry. These include scarcity...
Company: The Arab Bankers Association of North America
Date: October 2003 |
The Arab Bankers Association of North America |
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Institutional Or Institutionalized - Are Hedge Funds Crazy?
This article looks at factors that both promote and impede the institutionalization of the hedge fund industry. One understands the allure of hedge funds. Certain...
Company: NewRiver
Date: December 2002 |
NewRiver |
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Characteristics of Institutional Investment in Real Estate Investment Trusts
This paper tries to investigate whether the changing composition of institutional demand for real estate investment trust (REIT) stocks can partially explain changes in the...
Company: University of North Carolina
Date: March 2000 |
University of North Carolina |
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Institutional Demand for Hedge Funds: New Opportunities and New Standards
The objective in this report is to be both descriptive of and prescriptive to the hedge fund industry. The report describes the current state of...
Company: Bank of New York Mellon
Date: September 2004 |
Bank of New York Mellon |
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STP for Institutional Settlement
As a significant step toward providing a straight-through processing (STP) solution for the institutional marketplace, the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), a subsidiary of the...
Company: The Depository Trust & Clearing Company
Date: May 2003 |
The Depository Trust & Clearing Company |
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Institutional Investors and REIT Equity Prices
This paper investigates whether the changing composition of institutional demand for REIT stocks can partially explain changes in the relative prices of REIT shares over...
Company: University of Wisconsin
Date: June 2000 |
University of Wisconsin |
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The Declining Information Content of Dividend Announcements and the Effect of Institutional Holdings
This paper proposes an explanation for the "disappearing dividend" phenomenon: the decline in the information content of dividend announcements. It reduces the propensity of firms...
Company: New York University
Date: May 2003 |
New York University |
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Some Structural Attributes of Institutional Office Investments
This study explores some of the less cyclical characteristics of the office investment market. Offices comprise more than one-third of investable commercial real estate by...
Company: American Real Estate Society
Date: June 2003 |
American Real Estate Society |
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Equity Style Returns and Institutional Investor Flows
This paper explores institutional investor trades in stocks grouped by style and the relationship of these trades with equity market returns. It aggregates transactions drawn...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: March 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Institutional Investors, Financial Market Efficiency and Financial Stability
Institutional investors have grown strongly in the past few decades, as a consequence not only of the overall expansion of financial sectors relative to GDP,...
Company: University of London
Date: January 2003 |
University of London |
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Institutional Investors, Corporate Governance and the Performance of the Corporate Sector
Proportions of equity held by institutional investors are rising across all OECD countries. Paradigms of corporate governance involving a key role for institutions are market...
Company: University of London
Date: May 2002 |
University of London |
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Institutional Traders' Behavior in an Emerging Stock Market: Empirical Evidence on Polish Pension Fund Investors
This paper contributes to the literature on institutional herding and positive feedback trading by analyzing the behavior of pension fund investors on the Polish stock...
Company: University of London
Date: July 2003 |
University of London |
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Providing Strategic Insurance Industry Consulting Services to Institutional Investment Firms
The institutional investment firms, commonly referred to as capital management firms, have significantly grown in number over the last several years. The analysts at these...
Company: Fairbanks Consulting Group
Date: July 2004 |
Fairbanks Consulting Group |
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Institutional Investors and Stock Market Volatility
This paper presents a theory of excess stock market volatility, in which market movements are due to trades by very large institutional investors in relatively...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: October 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Goal 10. White Paper - Creating the Institutional Processes Necessary to Accurately Assess Our Progress
The university has been moving ahead in the challenging process of changing institutional processes and culture to support continuous examination of goals, self reflection, and...
Company: California State University, Stanislaus
Date: February 2002 |
California State University, Stanislaus |
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Foreign Investment Location And Institutional Development In Transition Economies
Institutions are widely regarded as a crucial locational advantage of host countries aiming to attract foreign investors. However, there is little agreement on which institutions...
Company: Elsevier
Date: December 2003 |
Elsevier |
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Beyond the Cult of the CEO: Building Institutional Leadership
Article discusses that after surveying thousands of executives and interviewing hundreds of them as part of the World Economic Forum's Strategic Leadership Project it was...
Company: Booz Allen Hamilton
Date: January 2003 |
Booz Allen Hamilton |
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