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The four essays collected in this dissertation serve as a contribution to the broad field of pension finance. They focus on the economic understanding of liability valuation on the one hand and investment policy for pension funds on the other. The first article concerns the impact of the sponsor’s c
This dissertation contains six studies on asset pricing. It analyzes questions related to life-cycle portfolio choice in the presence of time-varying bond risk premia, annuity risk management, delegated and decentralized investment management, return predictability, and mortgage choice. The first th
The central theme of the dissertation is longevity risk. Institutions offering products depending on the lifetime of an individual face micro-longevity risk, simply because lifetime is uncertain. This type of risk reduces significantly when the portfolio size is increased. Mortality patterns may als
Abstract: This thesis consists of three parts that examine several topics concerning institutional asset management. In Part I, investment strategies based on stock returns in previous months known as momentum strategies are investigated in more detail. More specifically, the driving forces behind t
In efficient markets, security prices move in response to the release of new information. Since transactions contain information, trading itself causes traders and market makers to update their beliefs and prices to be revised. The main part of this thesis (Chapters 2, 3, and 4) is devoted to the em
Abstract: This thesis investigates empirically and theoretically the behavior of mutual fund investors and managers. These two aspects are closely related to each other. Investors try to select funds that follow an optimal investment policy from their point of view, while fund managers are typically
Abstract: Nowadays, both large financial and non-financial institutions use models for the term structure of interest rates for risk management and pricing purposes. This thesis focuses on these two important applications of term structure models. In the first part, the empirical performance of seve
Abstract: Many different motivations for investing in mutual funds have been provided in the literature, including the claim that managers of mutual funds have special abilities that can be used to outperform the market. Testing of the validity of these claims is complicated by two facts. First, the
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