Download or read book Closed End Fund Pricing written by Seth Anderson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closed-End Investment Companies (CEICs) have experienced a significant revival of interest, both as investment vehicles and as the subject of academic research, over the past decade. This academic research has focused on the nature of closed-end funds' discounts and premiums and on the share price behavior of these firms. The first book by the authors, "Closed-End Investment Companies: Issues and Answers," addresses closed-end fund academic articles published prior to 1991. This second book addresses those articles that have appeared since that time. Closed-End Fund Pricing: Theories and Evidence is designed for the academic researcher interested in CEICs and the practitioner interested in using CEICs as an investment vehicle. The authors summarize the evolution of CEICs, present the factors thought to cause CEIC shares to trade at different levels from their net asset values, provide a complete survey of the recent academic literature on this topic, and summarize the current state of research on CEICs.

Download or read book Closed End Funds Exchange Traded Funds and Hedge Funds written by Seth Anderson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Closed-End Funds, Exchange-Traded Funds, and Hedge Funds: Origins, Functions, and Literature is a concise and valuable book that will be of interest to individual investors, financial professionals, and academic researchers, alike. It provides a brief history and institutional discussion of these investment companies and also presents a summary of the research on these funds. Investment practitioners will find the book useful as a reference and as a quick refresher on the current state of knowledge regarding each fund type. Equally important, it provides academic researchers with an accurate institutional framework within which to cast their theoretical models, and a point of departure for expanding the empirical analysis for improving our understanding of these funds. All-in-all, this is a very valuable book; I highly recommend it." (John J. Jackson, Professor of Economics, Auburn University) "Professors Anderson, Born, and Schnusenberg provide a valuable service in this monograph. The practical significance of closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, and hedge funds has increased dramatically in recent years, but all too many academics and investors know little about them. This text presents a carefully-focused and understandable description of these investment vehicles, highlighting the big, unresolved questions, while also including careful and fair accounts of the state of the literature. Nothing extraneous clutters the presentation, but, more importantly, nothing necessary is left out. Highly recommended." (T. Randolph Beard, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Auburn University) "This book is both useful as a reference book and as an additive, educational overview of ETFs and hedge funds, as well as CEFs. In today’s tumultuous markets, much reference is made to these subjects without a clear understanding of the vehicles, their structure and their history. This is a very timely publication and should be viewed as an important read. The book contains definitive explanations and also includes an excellent summary of past works in this area. Readable, informative and highly useful as a reference source." (Kathleen A. Wayner, President and CEO, Bowling Portfolio Management)

Download or read book The Investor s Guide to Closed end Funds written by Thomas J. Herzfeld and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Herzfeld s Guide to Closed end Funds written by Thomas J. Herzfeld and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closed-end funds continue to gain prominence as one of today's most popular vehicles for buying stocks and bonds. This text aims to provide individual investors and professionals with access to information on these funds.

Download or read book Risk and Return in Trading Closed End Country Funds written by Marcelle Arak and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discounts of closed-end country funds, from their net asset value, vary substantially from week to week. Statistical tests in this paper indicate that these discounts are mean reverting and therefore the discount has a predictable component. We investigate whether additional returns can be gained from a strategy of switching from equities into the closed-end funds when the discount is large and selling the fund and rebuying equities when the discount narrows. Because only limited data exists for closed-end country funds, we use Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the expected returns from the strategy. These simulations show that substantial profits, over and above the returns on the portfolio of foreign stocks held by the fund, can be earned. One drawback to investing in these country funds is that their prices tend to be more highly correlated with the US market than their portfolios are. We estimate the relevant betas and compute the additional returns necessary to compensate the investor for the additional systematic risk. After netting out the risk compensation, substantial abnormal returns remain.

Download or read book Closed end Country Funds and U S Market Sentiment written by James N. Bodurtha and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Closed end Fund Discount written by Elroy Dimson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Recent Turmoil in Emerging Markets and the Behavior of Country Fund Discounts written by Mr.Charles Frederick Kramer and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper argues that recent movements in closed-end emerging markets funds present a strong challenge to the leading explanations of the behavior of closed-end country fund prices. In particular, closed-end funds dedicated to Mexico and other Latin American stock markets developed large premia after the December 1994 devaluation of the Mexican peso and the subsequent financial crisis. The so-called “investor sentiment hypothesis” could explain these events only by suggesting that investors became very optimistic about emerging markets stocks, and especially Mexican stocks; this possibility seems unlikely given the facts surrounding the devaluation. We argue instead that a sensible explanation for recent dynamics of closed-end country funds is that investors in these funds are loss-averse, implying that they do not want to realize paper losses on their closed-end fund shares. This works to put a drag on the downward movement in closed-end fund prices.

Download or read book Investing in Closed end Funds written by Albert J. Fredman and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the only up-to-date comprehensive book on the subject written for investors as well as stock brokers and financial planners.

Download or read book Closed end Country Funds written by John Eric Richard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open end Mutual Funds written by Dunhong Jin and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to prevent runs on open-end mutual funds? In recent years, markets have observed an innovation that changed the way open-end funds are priced. Alternative pricing rules (known as swing pricing) adjust funds’ net asset values to pass on funds’ trading costs to transacting shareholders. Using unique data on investor transactions in U.K. corporate bond funds, we show that swing pricing eliminates the first-mover advantage arising from the traditional pricing rule and significantly reduces redemptions during stress periods. The positive impact of alternative pricing rules on fund flows reverses in calm periods when costs associated with higher tracking error dominate the pricing effect.

Download or read book Closed End Country Funds and U S Market Sentiment Mitsui Life Financial Research Center written by James N. Bodurtha and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premiums on closed-end country funds tend to move in tandem, but do not move together with premiums on domestic closed-end funds. After controlling for foreign market fundamentals, changes in the stock price of country funds co-move with U.S. market returns, but changes in their net asset values do not. An index of changes in country fund premiums explains cross-sectional stock returns in the U.S. market. Collectively, these findings suggest U.S. stock prices are affected by market-wide sentiments which are reflected in closed-end country fund premiums.

Download or read book Valuation of Closed end Country Funds written by Dong-Soon Kim and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Design and Pricing of Country Funds Under Market Segmentation written by Cheol S. Eun and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Closed End Country Funds and International Diversification written by Andreas Charitou and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from 1993 to 2002 for eight developed and fifteen emerging markets, we find that return correlations, mean-variance spanning, and Sharpe ratio tests support that closed-end country funds (CECF) can mimic their corresponding foreign indices, and that they are more heavily influenced by their corresponding local markets instead of the U.S. market. This implies that U.S. investors, by investing in CECF, can achieve similar international diversification benefits to those achieved by investing directly in the foreign indices. We also document increased correlation between the U.S. market and foreign markets during this period and find no compelling evidence of economically and statistically significant international diversification benefits, as opposed to a pre-1993 period. These findings could be associated with the financial market liberalization that was prevalent during the period.

Download or read book Country Funds and Asymmetric Information written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book UK Closed end Country Funds written by Mary H. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis we investigate the relation between UK closed-end country fund pricing and measures of illiquidity, sentiment and segmentation. First, we examine whether the UK closed-end country fund premium is related to the illiquidity of the UK fund or the illiquidity of the country in which the fund invests. We also consider whether emerging market country funds behave differently in terms of their premium and illiquidity to developed market country funds, and in particular whether they offer more stability during the period of the recent financial crisis. Overall, we find country illiquidity plays a significant role in the premium of emerging market funds. However, in developed market funds country illiquidity is not significant. Fund illiquidity, in contrast, is significant for developed market funds but not for emerging market funds. Second, we analyse the effect of sentiment on the pricing of UK closed-end country funds between 1992 and 2009. We find that country consumer sentiment is significantly negatively related to the share price and NAV (net asset value) return over different time horizons. We also find that UK consumer sentiment is significantly negatively related to the closed-end fund premium. The results suggest that both institutional investors and so called 'discount traders' influence country fund pricing. Third, we examine the effect of time-varying direct investment barriers on the pricing of UK closed-end country funds in emerging markets. We focus on the post-liberalisation period (1993-2009) and analyse the relation between time varying measures of direct and indirect market segmentation. We find that the direct measures of capital market segmentation are significantly negatively related to both the share price return and the return on the NAV of UK closed-end country funds in emerging markets. We also find, however, that direct investment barriers have an insignificant effect on the premium.