Volume 2006, Issue 1

Financial Market Trends

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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends

OECD’s twice-yearly journal providing timely analyses and statistics on financial matters of topical interest and longer-term developments in specific financial sectors. Each issue provides a brief update of trends and prospects in the international and major domestic financial markets along with articles covering such topics as structural and regulatory developments in OECD financial systems, trends in foreign direct investment, trends in privatization, and financial sector statistics covering areas such as bank profitability, insurance, and institutional investors.

Periodically, a small number of articles within one field of financial sector developments – constituting the so-called special focus for the particular issue – may be included.

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ISSN: 16096886 (online)
https://doi.org/10.1787/16096886

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2006 Volume 2006, Issue 1

Twice each year, Financial Market Trends provides an overview of trends and prospects in international and major domestic financial markets of the OECD area, as well as article on matters of topical or longer term interest. In addition to its usual assessment of recent trends, this issue of Financial Market Trends also provides an overview of the financial policy landscape, a look at risk capital in OECD countries, pension fund demand for long-term bonds, and overviews of OECD activities in the areas of pension statistics and financial outreach.

20 Apr 2006 English

https://doi.org/10.1787/fmt-v2006-1-en

Author(s): OECD

Articles

Mark		Title
		Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets Financial markets in major economies have been broadly strong after some weakening in the first part of the fourth quarter of 2005. Equity markets in the euro area have been buoyant over the past few months, and the strong upswing of Japanese ...	Click to download PDF - 1.82MB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		The Financial Policy Landscape This article discusses different aspects of the formulation of financial policy against the backdrop of a changing financial services landscape. Recent trends and developments in the financial services industry, and some longer dated issues as well ...	Click to download PDF - 782.15KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		Risk Capital in OECD Countries This article follows up on monitoring and analysing developments and structural issues related to risk capital undertaken by the OECD since the mid-1990s. Risk capital, i.e. finance for fast-growth SMEs, should help to foster entrepreneurship and a ...	Click to download PDF - 551.27KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		Pension Fund Demand for High-quality Long-term Bonds The article describes the results of a modeling exercise to gauge the size of potential pension fund demand for bonds under some simplifying assumptions, so as to illustrate the potential role of this specific group of investors. It provides a ...	Click to download PDF - 1.30MB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		The OECD Global Pension Statistics Project A useful proxy for the total assets accumulated in long-term savings and retirement systems is the sum of investments of pension funds and life insurance companies. This proxy covers the vast majority of occupational and personal pension ...	Click to download PDF - 524.80KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		Highlights of OECD Financial Outreach Activities in 2005 In the late 1980's the OECD began co-operation (i.e. policy dialogue with nonmember economies) with the Asian Newly Industrialising Economies, and when the Berlin wall fell in 1989 it launched a programme with the Central and East European countries ...	Click to download PDF - 278.78KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ

Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets

Financial markets in major economies have been broadly strong after some weakening in the first part of the fourth quarter of 2005. Equity markets in the euro area have been buoyant over the past few months, and the strong upswing of Japanese ...

The Financial Policy Landscape

This article discusses different aspects of the formulation of financial policy against the backdrop of a changing financial services landscape. Recent trends and developments in the financial services industry, and some longer dated issues as well ...

Risk Capital in OECD Countries

This article follows up on monitoring and analysing developments and structural issues related to risk capital undertaken by the OECD since the mid-1990s. Risk capital, i.e. finance for fast-growth SMEs, should help to foster entrepreneurship and a ...

Pension Fund Demand for High-quality Long-term Bonds

The article describes the results of a modeling exercise to gauge the size of potential pension fund demand for bonds under some simplifying assumptions, so as to illustrate the potential role of this specific group of investors. It provides a ...

The OECD Global Pension Statistics Project

A useful proxy for the total assets accumulated in long-term savings and retirement systems is the sum of investments of pension funds and life insurance companies. This proxy covers the vast majority of occupational and personal pension ...

Highlights of OECD Financial Outreach Activities in 2005

In the late 1980's the OECD began co-operation (i.e. policy dialogue with nonmember economies) with the Asian Newly Industrialising Economies, and when the Berlin wall fell in 1989 it launched a programme with the Central and East European countries ...