Former Italian minister accused over space funds

Canada accused of hypocrisy over asbestos exports.

Asbestos is a lethal and naturally occurring group of minerals that has brought death and misery to people worldwide. Due to its good tensile strength and resistance to damage, asbestos became extremely popular throughout the early 20th century, and, in many less wealthy nations, remains so today, where it has several uses including strengthening cement and prolonging the life of road surfaces....

Funds of funds portfolio composition and its impact on the performance: evidence from the Italian market

Funds of Funds (FoF) are particular investment funds that invest resources in some mutual funds. This type of funds offers the possibility to achieve an higher diversification that an investor can’t realize using other instruments. One of the main differences among FoFs available is the strategy adopted by the manager to select the investment funds to include in the portfolio and the number of ...

Quebec Health Minister blames former CEO for MUHC deficit, resulting cuts.

Too Many Mutual Funds?1 — Financial Product Differentiation Over The State Space

This paper identifies in the mutual fund industry a novel form of product differentiation — financial product differentiation over the state space. On the one hand, it is a well-documented fact that investors chase past performances of the mutual funds. On the other hand, the mutual funds’ performances are determined not only by fund managers’ abilities, but also by stochastic noise factors. In...

Questioni Di Economia E Finanza Italian Real Estate Investment Funds: Market Structure and Risk Measurement Questioni Di Economia E Finanza Italian Real Estate Investment Funds: Market Structure and Risk Measurement Italian Real Estate Investment Funds: Market Structure and Risk Measurement

This paper describes the Italian real estate investment funds industry, providing an overview of the distinctive features and risk factors of this sector. By using accounting and supervisory data, we: (1) compute the returns of the real estate assets in the portfolio of these funds; (2) construct a price index and a total return index of the real estate assets held by the Italian funds; (3) def...