rational investment decisions but their decisions are usually influenced by several factors and restrictions; emotion, beliefs and biases, for example. Those factors and restrictions cause investors to
mutual fund. Such factors include emotion, personal belief and attitudes toward different channels of savings and investment. For example, some investors prefer low risk, principal guaranteed investment
characteristics (Matsumoto, 2002) - Institutional ownership - Reliance on implicit claims with their stockholders - Value-relevance of earnings Natural disasters (such as hurricanes: Byard et al. 2007
are sustainably different from the underlying financial version of the agency theory. It assumes that each stakeholder is a part of implicit and explicit contracts that can contribute to a corporation
implicit in the methodology but have been clarified through notes Web pages that facilitate dissemination Research highlights on the credit implications of ESG trends and factors ESG- specific conferences or
information. • Recognise that human characteristics such as emotion can have an impact on investing decisions in unanticipated ways. • Recognise that discipline in investing can minimise behavioural biases. 7
does not constitute an implicit or explicit investment advice. The information provided herein is general in nature and does not constitute an advertisement of financial products in Switzerland pursuant
underlying asset(s) in which they invest – as discussed above. One aim of internal governance structures and the Principles in this respect is to minimise the frictional costs implicit in the investment chain
products (i.e., annuities), tax-efficient allocation decisions, and a portfolio optimization that includes a proxy for the investor’s implicit and/or explicit liabilities. Each of these five Gamma components
implicit assumption behind the expected relation between future earnings and stock price is that markets possess information about future earnings. Prior research on the price informativeness reveals that