Published in Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology
An increasing number of biotechnology projects are being brought to commercialization using conventional structured finance sources, which have traditionally only been available to proven technologies and primary industries. Attracting and securing competitive cost financing from main-stream lenders, however, will require the sponsor of a new techn...
Transfers of joint stock companies can be executed in several ways - for example by transferring individual shares or by transferring all shares or by selling the company's assets and liabilities. It is not fully clear which rules should apply to transfers of joint stock companies. Some legal experts claim that the Sales Act (Köplagen) is applicabl...
Published in Wirtschaftsinformatik
Published in Journal of Commercial Biotechnology
In a maturing bio-pharma industry and with capital markets closed, collaboration is becoming the main route for companies to achieve the critical mass and cash flow necessary for sustainability. Indeed, collaboration is currently being driven by several factors, including the high-risk/high-reward profile of drug development, the lengthy time to pr...
Published in Pensions: An International Journal
This paper deals with the opaqueness and the ethics of reporting practices of funds of hedge funds (FOFs) by examining this increasingly popular black box alternative investment strategy. Numerous statistical reports sent out by FOFs managers to institutional investors have been examined and it has been discovered that many FOFs (a basket of hedge ...
Värdepappersmarknaden fyller en mycket central plats i vårt samhälle då många affärer görs där och betydande belopp omsätts. De marknader där man omsätter kapital och risk är indelade i aktiemarknad, kreditmarknad och derivatmarknad, varav fokus här ligger på aktiemarknaden. På denna marknad, som även kallas riskkapitalmarknaden, omsätts i första h...
The Private equity industry is receiving a lot of attention in the daily news. The Private equity firms are acquiring other companies through a Leverage buyout transaction (LBO). The ownership period is short with an average ownership of five to seven years. The business strategy of the PE firms is only focusing on generating the highest possible p...
Published in Derivatives Use, Trading & Regulation
This article examines and addresses the arguments presented against the hedge fund industry in past years. We try to identify the source of each argument and verify whether these arguments are still valid. We find that a majority of these arguments are largely unfounded, although some still apply. The conclusions we draw from this analysis allow us...
Published in Derivatives Use, Trading & Regulation
Some hedge fund investors may pay close attention to market risk while not spending enough time considering operational risks. The examples of Bayou, Wood River and Lancer are used to illustrate the operational risks that are all too present in hedge funds. A proposal to gather and aggregate data directly from brokers and custodians could reveal a ...
This report presents the results from a survey conducted by Queensland University of Technology’s Faculty of Law as part of the Legal Framework for e-Research Project, funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), under the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII), Research Information Infrastructure Fr...
