TY - UNPD A1 - Maurer, Raimond T1 - Institutional investors in Germany : insurance companies and investment funds T2 - Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2003,14 N2 - This chapter focuses on institutional investors in the German financial markets. Institutional investors are specialized financial intermediaries who collect and manage funds on behalf of small investors toward specific objectives in terms of risk, return and maturity. The major types of institutional investors in Germany are insurance companies and investment funds. We will examine the nature of their businesses, their size and role in the financial sector, the size and the composition of the assets under their management, aspects of financ ial regulation, and features of their asset-liability-management. T3 - CFS working paper series - 2003, 14 KW - Institutional Investors KW - Insurance Companies KW - Investment Funds KW - Regulation KW - Pension KW - Investmentfonds KW - Versicherungsbetrieb KW - Deutschland KW - Institutioneller Anleger Y1 - 2003 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3669 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-18094 IS - This version Thursday, June 05, 2003 ER -