Performance and governance in investment management companies

During the crisis the asset management is affected by a lack of investors' confidence and an increase of risk exposure for all financial instruments traded and investor need more efficient solution for constructing and managing their investment portfolio. The real estate market was the source of the financial crisis development and the main limits of the market could be ascribed to the low quality of the information available, the investment strategies adopted by the managers and the mistakes done in evaluating the risk exposure. Due to the crisis, financial resources available for the public sector are lower and Public entities have to develop new instruments for collecting financial resources and to take care about the market reaction to their investment and expenditure policies. The book provides an original analysis of the effect of the crisis in the three sectors and points out the new instruments or approaches proposed in order to avoid the development of a new crisis.