Putting our money where their mouth is: Alignment of charitable aims with charity investments – Tensions in policy and practice

Given the values-driven nature of the mission of most charities, it might be expected that investment behaviour would be similarly values-driven. This paper documents the ethical investment policies and practices of the largest UK charities and explores how these are aligned with the charitable aims, drawing upon accountability, behavioural and managerial perspectives as theoretical lenses. The study employs two distinct research methods: responses to a postal questionnaire and follow-up semi-structured interviews with selected charities. The evidence indicates that a significant minority of large charities do not have a written ethical investment policy. Charities with larger investments, fundraising charities and religious charities were more likely to have a written ethical policy. We suggest that there is a pressing need for improved alignment between charities' aims and their investment practices and better monitoring of investment policies.     

中国农产品期货主力及近月合约套期保值效果研究

主力合约和近月合约的偏离是中国期货市场特有的现实问题,它在一定程度上阻碍对中国期货市场功能的发挥。文章以ZCE棉花和DCE豆一期货为代表对中国农产品期货市场进行研究,研究发现,中国ZCE棉花和DCE豆一期货的近月合约套期保值效果明显优于主力合约套期保值效果,但均远远低于发达期货市场的套期保值效果。根据研究结果,本研究结合实际提出几个有针对性的措施,以利于中国农产品期货功能的发挥。     

我国黄金期货市场功能发挥的实证研究

本文运用协整检验、Granger因果检验、Garbade-Silber模型、误差修正模型等对2008年1月9日到2008年11月14日上海期货交易所黄金期货合约的价格发现功能和套期保值功能进行研究,结果表明:黄金现货价格对期货价格存在单向引导关系,在价格发现功能中,黄金现货价格起着决定性的作用,期货市场价格发现功能相对较弱。     

价格异常与不对称相关结构下套期保值策略——来自亚洲股指期货市场的实证

在不对称相关结构下,尾部区域期货和现货价格联动模式异常复杂,传统套期保值策略在极端价格行为下将不可避免地出现系统性偏差。为此,恰当的连接函数被引入描述尾部区域的价格联动模式,依据MV框架构建局部套期保值策略,以解决极端价格行为下的套期保值问题。对亚洲市场日经指数和恒生指数期货套期保值的实证研究表明:(1)采用Rotated Gumbel连接函数,在传统MV策略(全局策略)下,虽然在降低套保组合方差方面没有明显优势,但日经指数和恒生指数期货的套期保值成本将显著下降,套保组合收益/组合方差的比率显著上升;(2)如果套期保值者能够对未来形成可靠预期,套期保值的成本将进一步下降,并且现货价格风险也得到有效控制。     

日本商品期货市场近年衰落的原因和思考

进入21世纪以来,曾引领亚洲期货市场发展的日本商品期货市场明显衰落。在最初的要素条件、需求状况等外生比较优势逐步削弱的同时,规模经济、技术进步、产品差别等内生比较优势发展的滞后及市场分割、产业需求不足等固有矛盾的暴露,决定了日本商品期货市场发展的下行态势,日本监管当局规范和发展期货市场脱离实际的改革措施尤其加速了市场衰落的进程。本文从日本商品期货市场的现状入手,通过比较优势理论分析衰落的原因,并从大国商品期货市场的竞争和发展中探寻教训与经验,为我国商品期货市场发展提供借鉴。     

股指期货与现货市场的关系研究

本文从市场结构、交易执行效率和市场信息传播三个方面,由浅入深地展开了期现货市场关系的梳理和分析。股指期货市场的出现,一是使得原本现货市场单轨运行的市场结构变为了期现货市场双轨运行的新结构,增加了市场稳定性;二是依托期货交易方式的独特机制,大大提高了交易执行效率;三是期货价格也因此包含了更多内容,促进了市场信息的传播与扩散。同时,股指期货的独特设计使得其非常适合在危机条件下充分发挥功能,是一个重要的风险管理工具,已经成为现代资本市场的重要组成部分和基础性的内在稳定机制。     

How numbers of the future are shaping today: The role of forecasts and calculations in public sector strategic thinking

This article examines the role of numbers in forming a city strategy in the case of Gothenburg, Sweden. The article illustrates how numbers make people act and react and shape the strategy process. The study is situated between the theoretical fields of accounting and strategy processes in cities. By relating them to the concept of ‘governmentality’, numbers are seen as helping render the city governable. Because strategizing is seen as concerning the future, the actors involved in drafting the strategy feel free to challenge historically institutionalized practices. The effect is paradoxical: the future‐looking strategy process becomes a forum for solving current problems.     

Preparing for the professional futures field:: Observations from the UHCLC futures program

The futures field is an arena of increasing interest and activity. This article seeks to: (1) provide general information about key information sources for directed inquiry into futures studies; (2) sketch the origins and current status of the graduate program in Studies of the Future offered by the University of Houston at Clear Lake City—currently the largest and most comprehensive program of its kind; (3) Describe the methodology used in a recent strategic planning and program development project to update the UHCLC program; and (4) convey some guiding observations on teaching and research in futures studies, and on helping students find appropriate employment.     

当前我国慈善组织关系探析

慈善组织是慈善事业发展的载体。当前我国慈善组织依据不同方式分为多种类型,不同类型慈善组织之间存在着互助协作一面,也存在着不和谐的一面。慈善组织间不和谐原因在于募捐不规范、组织间缺乏沟通及“大慈善”意识的缺乏,为此需要改进募捐办法、加强组织间沟通、树立“大慈善”意识、发挥政府管理部门“裁判”作用,来解决慈善组织间不和谐状况,促进慈善组织和慈善事业的顺利发展。     

Sequential information arrival in the Finnish stock index derivatives markets

This paper investigates the hypothesis of sequential information arrival in the Finnish stock index futures and options markets. With no short selling restrictions in the derivatives markets, no causality relationships between returns and trading volume are observed. However, by using the so-called call-put signal, based on call and put volumes, causality between returns and volume is found supporting the hypothesis of sequential information arrival. In addition, it is discovered that the increased volume in stock index options relative to index futures has significantly increased their importance in the intermarket price discovery process.     

Dynamic Hedging Effectiveness in South Korean Index Futures and the Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis

This paper focuses on the impact of the 1997 Asian financial market crisis upon hedging effectiveness within the KOSPI 200 stock index and index futures markets. The paper utilizes the inter-temporal relationship between the two markets to examine the characteristics of several minimum variance hedge ratios. It also examines the performances of alternative hedging strategies for dynamic portfolio management in the presence of cointegrated time-varying risks. The results show a decline in the persistence of conditional volatility within market prices after the crisis. This decline leads to the relative performance of utilizing constant hedge ratios to increase, though not significantly so to guarantee a superior performance over more sophisticated time-varying hedge ratio strategies.     

Intraday Empirical Regularities in Interest Rate and Equity Index Futures Markets, and the Effect of Macroeconomic Announcements

This paper focuses on the intraday behaviour of returns, volatility, volume and price reversals for the Short Sterling interest rate and FTSE100 stock index futures contracts traded on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE). It also examines the effect of scheduled macroeconomic announcements and interest rate changes on the intraday behaviour of the variables of interest. We find clear differences and similarities with US studies and between the interest rate and equity contracts, which have important theoretical implications. This new evidence helps discriminate between the theories seeking to explain these intraday patterns.     

对证券期货监管合作中委托监管的思考

探索对基层证券期货机构实施委托监管是一项金融监管工作创新,对深入推进银证监管合作,发挥金融监管合力具有重要意义。本文从法律角度出发。分析了在证券期货监管合作中委托监管的法律支撑点、委托监管的可能内容、人民银行接受委托监管面-临的问题。并据此提出对策建议。     

期货类备案立法存在的问题及其对策建议

本文以中国证监会派出机构负责的期货经营机构事项备案为研究对象,分析了期货类备案的类型以及备案过程中存在的备案范围设定较随意、标准不一、要求不完善、管理不精细等问题,并对更好地完善备案监管立法提出增强备案可操作性、加强备案材料管理等建议。     

韩国金融衍生品市场发展的经验及对我国的启示

近年来,韩国金融衍生品市场飞速发展,其独特的投资者结构和严格的管理与细致的服务,特别是股指期货、期权交易的成功经验,为我国即将开启的金融衍生品交易提供了很好的借鉴。本文主要介绍了韩国金融衍生品市场的发展历程,并总结了韩国发展金融衍生产品市场的特点。     

Pig in the middle: Overcoming inflexibility unemployment

The growth in unemployment is not inevitable. It is the product of an implicit consensus amongst the most powerful social actors, which instead of implementing rules adapted to the new technological and economic era, fight to preserve the old rules from which they continue to draw profit. In the short run, preserving the inflexible attitudes towards work (the single salaried job with full salary) is such that unemployment is bound to increase and social strife will intensify. A more flexible approach to work supply and demand is illustrated by the game ‘pig in the middle’, which, with an equitable distribution of gains in productivity directly related to the implementation of new technology, does not exclude full employment for all.     

公司面向未来角逐什么

21世纪新的产业革命也许将深入许多领域，并将驾驭任何劳动，使劳动变成只是执行某些简单的指令，而科学技术的竞争和培养人才的竞争在其中发挥决定性的作用。另一方面，经济全球化的发展要求加强国际间的合作，解决竞争中的矛盾和摩擦，克服面临的共同困难和问题，促进共同发展。创造新观念，解决新问题。使我们在21世纪的竞争中取得主动权。     

Management of environmental and social risks and topics in the banking sector - An empirical investigation

This paper investigates how environmental and social (E&S) risks and topics (i. e. E&S issues that are important in terms of adaptation to a changing business environment) are integrated in the banking sector. Despite banks’ key role in steering financial flows towards sustainable development, little is currently known as to whether and how banks integrate E&S aspects into their management control systems and whether this integration translates into E&S performance. Building on prior studies in the environmental management control literature, we design a conceptual model in which we link contextual factors, a proactive strategy approach, E&S management controls, and E&S performance. Following common practice in the banking sector, we differentiate between two paths of E&S management controls: risk management (value protection) and topic management (value creation). Based on survey data for a small sample of 50 European banks, we find evidence that contextual factors, reflected in the perceived power and legitimacy of clients, voluntary standard setters and NGOs, are positively related to a proactive strategy approach. This proactive strategy translates into both topic and risk management. Yet, in the next step, only topic management is positively related to the E&S performance of a bank, but not risk management.     

Towards a new approach for the identification of atypical accident scenarios

Proper hazard identification (HAZID) in safety reports has become progressively more difficult to achieve. Several major accidents in Europe in recent years, such as Buncefield and Toulouse, were not even considered by their site ‘Seveso-II’ Safety Case. One of the reasons is that available HAZID methodologies take no notice of apparently least likely events. Nonidentified scenarios thus constitute a latent risk, whose management is extremely complex and open ended. For this reason, the EC project iNTeg-Risk, in one of its tasks, aimed to investigate the issue of atypical scenarios and explain how they could have been identified. This study wants to describe the approach used and its immediate results, paving the way towards a new method for the identification of atypical accident scenarios. An in-depth accident analysis of some of these accidents was performed, in order to outline general features of plants in which they occurred, their causes, consequences, and lessons learned. This analysis followed a precise common scheme, which allowed a systematic approach to the problem by the experts involved. Based on the findings, failures connected to risk management and risk appraisal were identified. Three main basic issues in risk appraisal were identified: the low perception of emerging risks related to atypical accident scenarios, the lack of knowledge about related events, such as early warnings, and the incapability of current techniques in leading analysts to the identification of atypical scenarios.