证券投资基金绩效评价方法及实证分析

为考察中国证券投资基金是否取得了超越基准市场市场指数的表现、中国基金是否为投资者创造了价值 ,主要采用 3大经典的风险调整绩效衡量指标对 10只样本基金及基准市场在 2 0 0 2年的表现进行相关计算和排序 ,同时还对基金的择券和择时能力及其投资风格进行了讨论和分析。结论表明有些证券投资基金在 2 0 0 2年投资业绩不如市场 ,投资风格与所宣称的也有较大出入 ,基金投资管理能力及其风格均有待提高和稳定。     

Commodity Markets and Commodity Mutual Funds

Fundamental economic factors—market demand and supply conditions—provide the most consistent explanation for trends in commodity prices from 2004 to 2011. This paper presents empirical evidence that the rise and fall of commodity prices on a monthly basis can be strongly linked to the value of the U.S. dollar and the world business cycle—in particular, to the strength or weakness in emerging market economies such as China, Brazil, India, and Russia. Despite concerns raised by some policymakers that increased commodity index investment (the financialization of commodities) has driven commodity price movements, numerous academic studies have concluded that index-based investing has not moved prices or exacerbated volatility in commodity markets in recent years. An examination of weekly and monthly net flows into commodity mutual funds reveals that these flows have little or no effect on the overall growth rate of commodity prices. In particular, weekly flows into commodity mutual funds do not lead to future commodity price changes. These results are consistent with academic papers that find little or no impact of commodity index investors on commodity prices in individual markets. The paper concludes by briefly discussing three key factors that illustrate why flows into commodity mutual funds cannot explain commodity price movements.     

构建农村互助储蓄银行的现实基础与制度设计

对在沪工作的200位农民工的有效问卷调查和对主要劳务输出地区-安徽省太湖县450户农户的实地调研的基础上,根据近年来农村经济、金融需求的新变化,分析构建新型农村合作金融组织-农村互助储蓄银行的现实基础,并结合实际提出具体可行的运作模式和实现路径。     

公募基金年末业绩追逐与风险调整行为研究

本文研究了我国公募基金追逐年末业绩对其风险调整行为的影响以及公募基金提高投资组合风险对业绩表现的影响,探讨了公募基金对高风险的追求是否能够带来更好的年末业绩.研究发现,前三季度表现较差的公募基金、资金净流入量较大的公募基金倾向于在最后一个季度提高投资组合的风险;而公募基金在最后一个季度提高投资风险的策略并不能够显著改善其年终业绩表现.     

Environmental Mutual Funds: Financial Performance and Managerial Abilities

For 15 years, former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky used his Penn State University perquisites to lure young and fatherless boys by offering them special access to one of the most revered football programs in the country. He repeatedly used the football locker room as a space to groom, molest, and rape his victims. In February 2001, an eye-witness alerted Penn State’s top leaders that Sandusky was caught sexually assaulting a young boy in the showers. Instead of taking swift action against Sandusky, leaders began a cover-up that is considered one of the worst scandals in sports history. While public outcry has focused on the leaders’ silence, we focus on the talk that occurred within the organization by key personnel. Drawing from court documents and internal investigative reports, we examine two euphemism clusters that unfolded in the scandal. The first cluster comprises reporting euphemisms, in which personnel used coded language to report the assault up the chain of command. The second cluster comprises responding euphemisms, in which Penn State’s top leaders relied on an innocuous, but patently false, interpretation of earlier euphemisms as a decision-making framework to chart their course of (in)action. We use this case to demonstrate how euphemistic language impairs ethical decision-making, particularly by framing meaning and visibility of acts, encouraging mindless processing of moral considerations, and providing a shield against psychological and material consequences. Further, we argue that euphemism may serve as a disguised retort to critical upward communication in organizations.     

Securities Lending Activities in Mutual Funds and ETFs: Ethical Considerations

Securities lending has been a lucrative business for mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over the past decade. Unfortunately for investors, the sponsors of these funds have not been very transparent with the details of their securities lending programs, and consequently most investors in these funds are unaware of their exposure to the risks inherent in securities lending. Interestingly, most funds do not return the full profits from securities lending activities to their investors. In this paper, we examine and discuss the ethical considerations related to the securities lending activities of mutual funds and ETFs and offer a series of best practices that we believe will provide better transparency of these activities to fund investors.     

Sustaining Inter-organizational Relationships Across Institutional Logics and Power Asymmetries: The Case of Fair Trade

This paper explores an empirical puzzle, namely, how inter-organizational relationships can be sustained between organizations that draw upon distinctive—and potentially conflicting—institutional logics under conditions of power asymmetry. This research analyses cases of these relationships and suggests some key conditions underlying them. Examining relationships between ‘Fair Trade’ organizations and corporate retailers, a series of contingent factors behind the dynamic persistence of such relationships are proposed, namely: the presence of pre-existing ‘hybrid logics’; the use of boundary-spanning discourses; joint tolerance of conflict; and co-creation of common rules. These four elements are supported by a fifth mediating factor, i.e. the presence and use of a Fair Trade certification system in the collaboration. The latter appears as a central vehicle facilitating cross-logic relationships—it can be seen as a ‘boundary object’ embodying a series of narratives and discourses that are open to multiple interpretations corresponding to the dominant institutional logics of each partner organization.     

提高开放式基金发行效率的若干思考

开放式基金的发行风险可能导致效率低下 ,引发运作期内的赎回风险。本文对国内开放式基金发行中面临的现实问题及风险作了分类描述 ,并提出若干对策 ,认为开放式基金可通过品种创新、实质管理、扩大首发规模和注重管理公司质量达到风险的化解 ,从而提高发行效率。     

高春辉:孤独的站长

挺过互联网的十年,一个创业者经历的幸运、得到、失去、挫折以及穿越谁还记得高春辉?网上搜索他的新闻,最新消息是2008年在网上谈创业,再往前的2006年,是他的一个好消息,手机之家被太平洋商业网络公司收购了,价格     

Pricing of Mutual Fund Services in Retirement Plans: Evidence from Open-End Equity Funds

Management fees of mutual funds are more costly to investors than is often realized. Moreover, research indicates that in many cases, the fees are not related to performance, contrary to what might be expected from an efficient market. This study uses sample data to illustrate the consequences of inefficiency to an individual investor. It then turns to an empirical examination of the determinants of the ratio of management fees to total assets (MER), investigating market concentration, fund performance, and non-performance characteristics as explanatory variables. All of these classes of variables contributed to the variation of MERs . JEL Classification G23     

The path-to-profitability of Internet IPO firms

Extant empirical evidence indicates that the proportion of firms going public prior to achieving profitability has been increasing over time. This phenomenon is largely driven by an increase in the proportion of technology firms going public. Since there is considerable uncertainty regarding the long-term economic viability of these firms at the time of going public, identifying factors that influence their ability to attain key post-IPO milestones such as achieving profitability represents an important area of research. We employ a theoretical framework built around agency and signaling considerations to identify factors that influence the probability and timing of post-IPO profitability of Internet IPO firms. We estimate Cox Proportional Hazards models to test whether factors identified by our theoretical framework significantly impact the probability of post-IPO profitability as a function of time. We find that the probability of post-IPO profitability increases with pre-IPO investor demand and change in ownership at the IPO of the top officers and directors. On the other hand, the probability of post-IPO profitability decreases with the venture capital participation, proportion of outsiders on the board, and pre-market valuation uncertainty.     

欧盟中小企业互助担保的制度模式及启示

由于在法律制度、市场运行机制和文化背景上具有相似性,欧盟各国的中小企业互助担保制度在发展中形成了共同的制度模式,通常是以互助担保协会为中心形成一个包括专业性协会、中小企业、银行、政府、高校等在内的运作系统.互助担保制度兼有内在制度和外在制度的特征,这一性质决定了其他国家在进行制度移植时要注意培育互助担保制度中无法移植的内部非正式规则,同时要不断完善发展互助担保制度的基础制度环境.文章提出,我国在进行互助担保制度移植时,除了要通过立法等方式确立互助担保制度与继续推进政治体制、经济体制改革,完善法律体系外,还应鼓励、帮助成立中小企业商业或专业性协会及中小企业互助合作社,培育中小企业的民主管理意识,增强其自我管理能力,建立促进中小企业发展的社会化服务体系.     

中国开放式基金的营销渠道分析

本文从当前国内开放式基金销售面临的现实困难出发,对比分析了中美开放式基金的营销环境,指出我国的营销环境、目标客户都与美国不同,要发展我国的开放式基金,应建立以证券交易系统为主、银行系统为辅的多渠道销售模式,向真正的目标客户销售,同时可以极大地提高基金申购赎回的效率.     

新股发行定价的聚类分析方法研究

新股定价问题一直是国际金融界公认的最具迷惑性的难题之一。针对我国证券市场的特点 ,对现行国内外各种新股定价模型和理论进行了研究。在此基础上 ,将多元分析方法的聚类分析应用于新股定价中 ,并通过实证研究表明这种方法是一种比较实用的、客观有效的新股定价方法 ,该方法可以有效地解决新股抑价现象 ,并对我国新股发行定价的改革将产生重要的指导意义。     

基于制度改进模型的财政公平收入分配研究

目前,我国收入分配差距日益扩大的趋势既是社会各界关注的现实问题,也是需要政府努力破解的重点难题。由于单纯依靠市场机制无法解决收入分配扩大问题,解决这一问题还要依靠非市场机制,这就要从财政角度审慎研究促进公平的政策,通过优化财政收入、支出结构及制度改进促进收入公平分配。     

A Masterpiece of Kingwai Holdings

China Kingwai Holdings Co., Ltd. （hereafter, Kingwai Holdings） was invested by Kingwai international investment holdings Co., Ltd. It is the first solely foreign-owned holdings company since China＇s reform and opening up to the outside. It was registered in Shantou Special Economic Zone with approval of National Industrial and Commercial Administrative Bureau.     

Institutional Effects on the Evolution of the Size Distribution of Firms

In this paper it is argued that the size distribution of firms may largely be determined by institutional factors. This hypothesis is tested in an exploratory fashion by studying the evolution of the size distribution of firms over time in Sweden for a period spanning from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. The data used are divided into finer size classes compared to most previous studies. This gives more scope for investigating the impact of institutions. Moreover, we use a unique data set, starting in 1984, to take account of corporate groups and government ownership. The analysis shows a poor development for intermediate-sized (10–199 employees) firms. This is likely to reflect the existence of a threshold that many firms are either unwilling or unable to cross. The analysis of the institutions and rules of the game determining the entrepreneurial and business conditions in Sweden indicate that the conditions have been unfavorable for small firms, and hence that too few small firms have managed to grow out of the smallest size classes. The conclusion is supported by an international comparison of the number of firms in different size classes. Data indicate that Sweden has fewer small (10–99 employees), and more large (500+) firms per capita than other European countries.     

Leveraging Equity Across The Brand Portfolio

Industry informants suggest that the equity of well-known, established brands can be leveraged to create value for unfamiliar or less-established brands. To the extent that cues in the retail environment imply some commonality between the high-equity brand and the less-established brand, benefits to the less-established brand may be expected. We refer to this implied commonality as strategic equivalence. Sharing the retail brand portfolio with high-equity brands is one way of establishing strategic equivalence. Display structure—whether the brands are displayed separately or intermixed—can also affect perceptions of strategic equivalence. In two studies, we demonstrate the ability of high-equity brands to increase the value of lower-equity brands in the same retail department and the ability of display structure to moderate this effect.     

发展我国期货投资基金研究

国际期货市场发展的历程表明,以机构投资者为主体的投资者结构是期货市场走向成熟的一个重要标志。而期货投资基金正是机构投资者中非常重要的一种组织形式。发展期货投资基金不但有利于解决我国期货市场规模小、流动性差的问题,同时对我国资本市场的持续、健康、稳定发展也将起到巨大的推动作用。发展期货投资基金已经成为整个期货业和资本市场梦寐以求的目标。     

封闭式基金业绩持续性研究

采用基于横截面回归的方法,考察1999年12月至2003年6月间的20只封闭式基金的业绩,从单位净值收益率和市价收益率两个方面研究基金业绩的持续性。检验结果显示,以基金单位净值收益率衡量,封闭式基金在样本期间内并未表现出显著的持续性,但如果以基金市价收益率衡量,封闭式基金的收益率在样本期间在中短期内呈现出显著的反转性。