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We analyze the relationship between ECB monetary policy and prudential policies in the host country and international lending by Dutch insurers and pension funds, using confidential institution-specific data. Our results suggest that insurers and pension funds do not significantly change their foreign lending in response to ECB policy changes, proxied by a shadow rate capturing both conventional and...
This study assesses the factors driving insurance companies and pension funds’ portfolio allocation to emerging market assets. By making use of the Emerging Portfolio Fund Research database, it estimates asset demand equations for emerging markets’ equities and bonds for insurance companies and pension funds from advanced countries. These are estimated by using recent advances in the literature on...
This paper analyses investment strategies of three types of Dutch institutional investors – pension funds, life insurers and non-life insurers – over the period 1999–2005. We use balance sheet and cash flow data, including purchases and sales of equity, fixed income and real estate. We trace asset reallocations back to both active trading and revaluations and link investment decisions to firm-specific...
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