scholarly journals Performance and Role of Singapore REITs in Multi-Asset Class Investment Portfolios

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Wong ◽  
Canon Tong ◽  
Yeong Ming Keow
Keyword(s):  
Asset Class ◽  
Investment Portfolios

scholarly journals Initial coin offerings and the cryptocurrency hype - the moderating role of exogenous and endogenous signals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Thies ◽  
Sören Wallbach ◽  
Michael Wessel ◽  
Markus Besler ◽  
Alexander Benlian
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Initial Coin Offerings

AbstractInitial coin offerings (ICOs) have recently emerged as a new financing instrument for entrepreneurial ventures, spurring economic and academic interest. Nevertheless, the impact of exogenous and endogenous signals on the performance of ICOs as well as the effects of the cryptocurrency hype and subsequent downfall of Bitcoin between 2016 and 2019 remain underexplored. We applied ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions based on a dataset containing 1597 ICOs that covers almost 2.5 years. The results show that exogenous and endogenous signals have a significant effect on the funds raised in ICOs. We also find that the Bitcoin price heavily drives the performance of ICOs. However, this hype effect is moderated, as high-quality ICOs are not pegged to these price developments. Revealing the interplay between hypes and signals in the ICO’s asset class should broaden the discussion of this emerging digital phenomenon.

scholarly journals The implications for bank risk posed by the bail-in amendments to the ranking of unsecured senior debt instruments in insolvency hierarchy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Laurence Jones ◽  
Enrico Geretto ◽  
Maurizio Polato ◽  
Giulio Velliscig
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Bank Risk ◽  
Panel Data Regression ◽  
Data Regression ◽  
Bank Managers ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
European Banks

Given the scarce empirical research supporting the branch of literature investigating the shortcomings of the bail-in regime (Hadjiemmanuil, 2015; Walther & White, 2020; Tröger, 2020), this paper offers a contribution in this regard investigating the implications for bank risk posed by the amendments to the unsecured senior debt asset class required to enhance the bail-in regime. To this purpose, we use a sample of 46 banks distributed over 17 European countries over the period of Q1 2010–Q4 2019. We thus run a fixed effect panel data regression over the entire period and also over the subperiods before and after the start of the overhaul of the unsecured senior debt asset class. Our main result points out the significant role of unsecured senior debt in explaining bank’s risk after the start of the amendments campaign which allowed this asset class to serve the enhancement of the bail-in regime. We attribute this result to the uncertain gone-concern loss-absorbing capacity of unsecured senior debt and its material cost exacerbated by the bail-in buffer shortfall of many European banks. Our result pique policymakers’ attention to the side-effects of the amendments to the bail-in regime and further guide bank managers’ decisions about regulatory funding strategies.

Encoded Perception

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-196
Author(s):  
Helena Shaskevich
Keyword(s):  
Computer Art ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Early Computer ◽  
Asset Class

Despite her status as an unpaid “resident visitor” for most of her nearly two-decade tenure there, Lillian Schwartz created some of the most important works of early computer art at Bell Labs. This essay unravels the conceptual frameworks of “vision” as they manifest in Schwartz’s early computer films made between 1970 and 1972, with a specific emphasis on vision as “information” and “data.” It argues that these specific films in Schwartz’s oeuvre explored a newly emerging model of vision based on the rendering practices of computers and scientific instruments, while navigating the fraught question of the role of the embodied viewer. Resisting this rationalized order of vision, which would ultimately result in the emergence of information as both a commodity and an asset class, Schwartz’s films instead explore the contingencies of rendering information with the newly developing medium of the computer.

scholarly journals From right to good, and to asset: The state-led financialisation of the social rented housing in Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442094151
Author(s):  
Emanuele Belotti ◽  
Sonia Arbaci
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The State ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Investment Fund ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Asset Class

Rental housing has been regarded as the new ‘frontier for financialisation’ since the 2007 financial crisis. But research examining financialisation of de-commodified rental housing is limited and is primarily focused on stock acquisitions by financial investors and the enabling role of either national or local governments. This critically overlooks the emergence of the financialised production of social rented housing, the interplay between levels of government (particularly with the regional level), and the leading role of the state in these processes. By combining a political sociology approach to policy instruments with a housing system studies perspective, the paper investigates how Italy, through the interplay between national, regional (Lombardy) and local (Milan) governments, led the financialisation of its social rented housing production. Through analyses of six decades of financial-legislative changes in the housing system regarding production/provision, finance and land supply, it identifies a three-stage journey towards financialisation: (1) the rise and fall of publicly-owned rental social housing (1950s to 1990s); (2) the regionalisation and marketisation of the sector up to the late 2000s; and (3) the upward transfer from the first local-scale experiment with the real estate mutual investment fund in Milan to the creation of a national-scale System of Funds for the production of social rented housing. The study shows that the re-commodification of housing and land initiated in the 1980s were intertwined and a conditio-sine-qua-non for financialisation; that the state played a crafting—rather than solely enabling—role in this process; and that trans-scalar legislative–financial innovations transformed social rented housing into a liquid asset class.

The Role of Taiwan REITs in Investment Portfolios

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsu Wen Peng ◽  
Graeme Newell
Keyword(s):  
Investment Portfolios

Landmark buildings and diversification opportunities in the residential market

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Gibilaro ◽  
Gianluca Mattarocci
Keyword(s):  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Time Horizon ◽  
Efficient Frontier ◽  
Diversification Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Risk Return ◽  
Good Investment ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
Housing Investments

Purpose This article aims to analyze the performance and risk of landmark building in the housing sector and to evaluate their usefulness for a diversification strategy. Design/methodology/approach After comparing summary statistics on the performance of landmark building with respect to other types of housing investments, the article evaluates their usefulness for a diversification strategy. The role of landmark buildings is studied using the modern portfolio theory and evaluating the role of this type of asset in the optimal asset allocation. The analysis is performed considering both the risk/return trade-off in a one-year and a multiple-year time horizon. Findings The results show that a landmark building can be a good investment opportunity, especially for high-risk/return investors. A not perfect correlation of the returns of this asset class with other types of housing investments implies the existence of a minimum investment in this asset class for almost all portfolios on the efficient frontier. Results are robust with respect to the length of the investment time horizon. Originality/value The article presents a unique analysis of intra-housing market diversification opportunities focusing on the role of landmark building in the portfolio construction. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that real estate investors can take advantage of investing in landmark buildings in the residential sector as well because there are no reasons to limit such investments to trophy buildings in the office and commercial sectors.

scholarly journals Cryptocurrencies and Finance Theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-365
Author(s):  
AbdulQuddoos AbdulBasith ◽  
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Mohammed M Elgammal ◽  
Bana Abuzayed ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Sufficient Data ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
Critical Feedback ◽  
The Times ◽  
Finance Theory ◽  
Term Analysis

Cryptocurrency (CCY) as a new key player in the currency system that has drawn the attention of scholars to examine its influence, relations and the opportunities that it may provide. However, a financial theoretical framework to connect CCY with financial theory is missing. This paper fills this gap by providing a review for the theoretical framework introduced in the literature to position CCY in investment and finance theories. This is done by studying the CCY literature and providing a critical feedback on the overall contributions in the area and possible venues for improvement. We report a need for a long-term analysis for CCY as this asset class is fairly new and sufficient data may not be available. Moreover, a better connection and linking with finance theories is required as it is significantly deficient. The promising potential of blockchain/ CCY stresses the need for interdisciplinary research including business, legal and information technology disciplines. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic opens the door for further research to investigate the role of CCY as a hedge in the times of crises. Keywords: digital ledger technology, cryptocurrency bitcoin, finance theory, investment, fintech

scholarly journals كيفية إخراج زكاة المحافظ الاستثمارية: دراسة فقهية تأصيلية (Zakat on investment portfolios: a fiqhi Ta’sili studies)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-114
Author(s):  
ياسر عبد الله عمر ◽  
حبيب الله زكريا
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Islamic Financial Institutions ◽  
Investment Portfolios

أصبحت المحافظ الاستثمارية من الأدوات المهمة في عصرنا الحاضر، وذلك لكثرة توجه الناس إليها لاستثمار أموالهم من خلالها، ولما تحمله من رؤوس أموال ضخمة. وتهدف هذه الورقة إلى بيان المسائل الفقهية المتعلقة بكيفية إخراج زكاة المحافظ الاستثمارية. وقد تناولت هذه الورقة زكاة محفظة الأصول المالية المكونة من أسهم وسندات وعملات، وكذلك ما يتعلق بمحفظة الأصول العينية من سلعٍ وعقارات ومعادن. أما المنهج المتبع في هذه الورقة فهو المنهج الاستنباطي والمنهج التحليلي وذلك بالاعتماد على المصادر الثانوية للبحث العلمي من خلال مراجعة التراث الفقهي وتحليل ما ذُكر من أقوال فقهية في كيفية إخراج زكاة المحافظ الاستثمارية. كما اعتمدت الورقة على القرارات الفقهية الصادرة عن المجمع الفقهي الإسلامي التابع لرابطة العالم الإسلامي، ومعايير هيئة المحاسبة والمراجعة للمؤسسات المالية الإسلامية AAOIFI)). وخلصت الدراسة إلى أن المحافظ الاستثمارية تجب فيها الزكاة بحسب صافي الموجودات الزكوية فيها. وتوصي هذه الورقة مؤسسات الزكاة والهيئات المختصة للعمل في تفعيل دور الزكاة في جميع القطاعات الاستثمارية، كما توصي الورقة بمواصلة الدراسات الشرعية المتخصصة خاصةً من قبل الهيئات العلمية والمجامع الفقهية في مجال الاستثمارات الحديثة وتأصيلها وربطها بالتراث الفقهي. الكلمات المفتاحية: الزكاة، المحافظ الاستثمارية، الشريعة الإسلامية. Abstract Investment portfolios have become one of the important investment tools in modern society, due to the large number of people turning to them to invest their money through them, and because of the huge capital, they carry. This paper aims to explain the jurisprudential issues related to how to pay zakat on investment portfolios. This paper dealt with zakat in the financial assets’ portfolio consisting of stocks, bonds, and currencies, as well as what is related to the in-kind assets’ portfolio of commodities, real estate, and metals. As for the approach used in this paper, it is the deductive approach and the analytical method by relying on secondary sources of scientific research by reviewing the jurisprudential heritage and analyzing the aforementioned jurisprudential sayings on how to pay zakat for investment portfolios. However, the paper also relied on the decisions issued by the Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Muslim World League, and the standards of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). Moreover, the study concluded that investment portfolios are subject to zakat according to the net zakat assets therein. Therefore, this paper recommends zakat institutions and specialized bodies to work in activating the role of zakat in all investment sectors. Also, this paper recommended the continuation of Shariah studies, especially by the scientific bodies and jurisprudence councils, in the field of modern investments, establishing them and linking them to the jurisprudential heritage. Keywords: Zakat, Investment portfolios, Shariah.

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