Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck (Banking and Finance), course: Management von Preis-, Zins- und Wahrungsrisiken, language: English, abstract: Exchange Traded Funds are one of the most successful and promissing innovations in financial markets in the last decades. In contrast to most other finance innovations ETFs are especially beneficial for private investors. Nevertheless some developments took place creating mostly unknown risks for those who decided to invest into them....

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck (Banking and Finance), course: Management von Preis-, Zins- und Wahrungsrisiken, language: English, abstract: It seems to be common that financial products are developed further and further, making them more and more complex. This process sometimes continues until nobody is any more able to exactly assess the contained risks. Such a trend can currently be observed in the Exchange Traded Funds business where especially active managed ETFs...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, University of Innsbruck, course: Sales Management in Banking and Finance, language: English, abstract: Asset allocation strategies are a frequently discussed topic with increasing importance in times of crisis. Such strategies should prevent us from price deterioration in bad times and ensure high return potentials in good times. More and more tactical asset allocation funds emerge and promise better returns than simple strategy funds. They always try to be on the right market side, in up as well as...