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Les investisseurs institutionnels (sociétés d'assurance, sociétés d'investissement et fonds de pension) sont les principaux collecteurs de l'épargne et émetteurs de fonds sur les marchés financiers. Leur rôle en tant qu'intermédiaires financiers et leur impact sur les stratégies d'investissement se sont accrus de façon significative.

Institutional investors. --- Institutional investments.

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This report presents the results of the second thematic peer review based on the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. The report is focused on the role of institutional investors in promoting good corporate governance practices including the incentives they face to promote such outcomes. It covers 26 different jurisdictions, including in-depth reviews of Australia, Chile and Germany.

Corporate governance. --- Institutional investors. --- Governance, Corporate --- Stockholders --- Industrial management --- Directors of corporations

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This paper estimates the effects of peer benchmarking by institutional investors on asset prices. To identify trades purely due to peer benchmarking as separate from those based on fundamentals or private information, the paper exploits a natural experiment involving a change in a government imposed underperformance penalty applicable to Colombian pension funds. This change in regulation is orthogonal to stock fundamentals and only affects incentives to track peer portfolios allowing the authors to identify the component of demand due to peer benchmarking. The authors find that peer effects among pension fund managers generate excess in stock return volatility, with stocks exhibiting short-term abnormal returns followed by returns reversal in the subsequent quarter. Additionally, peer benchmarking produces an excess in comovement across stock returns beyond the correlation implied by fundamentals.

Asset Prices --- Comovement --- Debt Markets --- Economic Theory & Research --- Emerging Markets --- Herding --- Institutional Investors --- Markets & Market Access --- Mutual Funds

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Pension funds have been expected to invest in a wide range of securities and provide liquidity to domestic capital markets since they are the most sophisticated investors, with plenty of resources to gather private information and manage portfolios professionally. However, by analyzing unique, monthly asset-level data from the pioneer case of Chile, this paper shows that pension funds tend to herd. This is consistent with pension funds copying each other in their investment strategies as a way to extract information, boost returns, and reduce risk. The authors compute measures of herding across asset classes (equities, government bonds, and private sector bonds) and at different pension fund industry levels. The results show that pension funds herd more in assets for which they have less market information and when risk increases. Moreover, herding is more prevalent across funds that narrowly compete with each other, that is, when comparing funds of the same type across pension fund administrators. There is much less herding within pension fund administrators and across pension fund administrators as a whole. This herding pattern is consistent with incentives for managers to be close to industry benchmarks, which might be driven by both market forces and regulation.

Capital Market Development --- Debt Markets --- Economic Theory & Research --- Emerging Markets --- Institutional Investors --- Investment and Investment Climate --- Investment Pattern --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Mutual Funds --- Portfolio Allocation

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Using the ARFIMA-FIGARCH model, this paper studies the efficiency of the Japanese equity market by examining the statistical properties of the return and volatility of the Nikkei 225. It shows that both follow a long range dependence, which stands against the efficient market hypothesis (EMH). The result is valid for all sample periods, suggesting that the recent equity market reform has not produced major efficiency gains.

Finance: General --- Investments: Stocks --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- Investment & securities --- Finance --- Stocks --- Stock markets --- Financial institutions --- Financial markets --- Stock exchanges --- Japan