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Alternative Investments in the Contemporary Period of Low Interest Rates.
Zavadil, Marek ; Schindler, Jaroslav (referee) ; Rejnuš, Oldřich (advisor)
The subject of the diploma thesis is to evaluate the development in post-crisis years and to determine the impacts that affect the current financial investment environment in the USA but also its future and create the prerequisites for other risks, which the market can affect in the next perspective and influence the global development. On this basis, a portfolio of the mutual fund will be drawn up, according to the assignment of its manager with an alternative investment component, which can adequately complement it in the current period of low interest rates.
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Alternative Investment in Fine Wine
Tisoň, Eduard ; Teplý, Petr (advisor) ; Smutná, Šarlota (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to examine diversification opportunities and relative investment performance of fine wine over several different periods. We found that fine wine indices have higher risk-adjusted returns than stocks in the most of ours periods and that cheaper fine wines performed substantially better than expensive ones. However, over the periods of financial crisis, fine wine had a strong correlation to major stock indices and lost a significant part of its value. Finally, since fine wine did not show any evidence of exposure to stock markets over the recent period, we concluded that fine wine can bring substantial diversification benefits, which we illustrated in the case of anti-cyclical and pro-cyclical portfolio.
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Je výhodné investovat do vína?
Syrová, Veronika
This bachelor thesis deals with investments in wine. The aim of the thesis is to compare the profitability and riskiness of investments in wine with stocks and with other alternatives, such as gold. Part of the work is focused on the characteristics of wine as an asset and on the ways in which it can be invested in wine. The second part contains a description of the indices and the calculation of return, risk, correlation or Sharpe ratio.
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Alternativní fondy kolektivního investování
Machátová, Aneta
This diploma thesis is focused on a comparison of mutual funds in the Czech Re-public. The theoretical part is about collective investment characteristics, alterna-tive and standard investments and one part is focused on the current capital mar-ket situation in the Czech Republic. The main part of this thesis compares real es-tate funds, commodity funds and standard mutual funds based on their risk and yield according to different lengths of the investment horizon. The main aim of this thesis is to make investment recommendations based on empirical analysis re-sults.
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Alternative Investment in Fine Wine
Tisoň, Eduard ; Teplý, Petr (advisor) ; Smutná, Šarlota (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to examine diversification opportunities and relative investment performance of fine wine over several different periods. We found that fine wine indices have higher risk-adjusted returns than stocks in the most of ours periods and that cheaper fine wines performed substantially better than expensive ones. However, over the periods of financial crisis, fine wine had a strong correlation to major stock indices and lost a significant part of its value. Finally, since fine wine did not show any evidence of exposure to stock markets over the recent period, we concluded that fine wine can bring substantial diversification benefits, which we illustrated in the case of anti-cyclical and pro-cyclical portfolio.
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Investing in LEGO sets
Voborský, Michal ; Brada, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kováč, Michal (referee)
This Bachelor thesis indetifies LEGO sets as an opportunity for investment and determines sets as alternative assets. The thesis is divided into five chapters. First defines alternative assets and investing in them. Second describes the history of the LEGO Company and their products. Third one describes ways of investing in LEGO sets and defines markets, where LEGO is traded. Fourth part describes factors which influence the value of LEGO sets. Last, fifth, part analyses return on investment and compound annual growth rate.
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Private Equity
Plavec, Martin ; Hraba, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jan (referee)
74 ABSTRACT This thesis deals with the private equity industry. Its aim is to coherently introduce private equity as a distinctive and integral part of today's economy, to provide relevant insight on the principles of functioning of private equity business model, and to analyse the mechanism of the most commonly used private equity transaction type. The thesis is structured into three chapters with each chapter being dedicated to one of the sub-aims. First chapter defines the notion of private equity and discusses the history of the industry and its economic performance. Private equity encompasses all types of equity investments into non-publicly traded companies. The industry itself has been gaining on significance since its emersion in the 1980s, mainly due to the fact that private equity investments have been consistently outperforming public markets in terms of realized returns. Second chapter is dedicated to the business model of private equity funds, their structure and lifecycle, as well as the investment process itself. Private equity funds take on the limited partnership legal form, which is managed by a professional private equity house while the investors' involvement consists solely in the provision of capital. A fund's lifetime is usually limited by a period of ten years and its lifecycle is...
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Alternative Investments in the Contemporary Period of Low Interest Rates.
Zavadil, Marek ; Schindler, Jaroslav (referee) ; Rejnuš, Oldřich (advisor)
The subject of the diploma thesis is to evaluate the development in post-crisis years and to determine the impacts that affect the current financial investment environment in the USA but also its future and create the prerequisites for other risks, which the market can affect in the next perspective and influence the global development. On this basis, a portfolio of the mutual fund will be drawn up, according to the assignment of its manager with an alternative investment component, which can adequately complement it in the current period of low interest rates.
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The International Art Trade
Kozáková, Kateřina ; Taušer, Josef (advisor) ; Trojanová, Kamila (referee)
The present diploma thesis deals with international art trade. It is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces key market agents and describes briefly the art market history. It also shortly evaluates the current market situation. The second chapter describes major international art trade centers and analyses key market patterns and electronic trading. The third chapter provides overview of regulations and rules at the US, EU, and Chinese art markets. The last chapter compares investment into art with selected other investment options. This chapter includes also a case study concerning Picasso's late works on paper. The theoretical part of the thesis aims to provide comprehensive overview of the international art trade. The objective of the case study is to analyze evolution of a narrowly defined art market segment in a given period and to compare it with the development of global art market and also with the presumptions resulting from the theoretical part. The other objective of the case study is to compare the return on investment of this art market segment with respect to the S&P 500 shares and gold.
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Management of an art collection as an investment opportunity
Kálalová, Jana ; Tyslová, Irena (advisor) ; Prokůpek, Marek (referee)
This diploma thesis is dedicated to the phenomenon of art collecting, which under certain circumstances can be considered as an alternative investment. The aim of the thesis is to examine the possibilities of art collecting and investing in the context of both Czech and world art markets, and determine whether art collecting is a form of investment that can generate future profit. Another goal of the thesis is the creation of recommendations that can help collectors create a quality collection while increasing its value over time, no matter if the collection is to be sold afterwards or not. The thesis is divided into several parts. In the first part I describe the collecting itself, various types of collections, significant collectors and also the institutionalized forms of collections in the Czech Republic and abroad. After that I talk about the art market regarding its selling channels together with their advantages and disadvantages for collectors. Subsequently I focus on the price-making process on the art market which creates the base for the next chapter about investing in art where I describe types and rules of investing in art, and afterwards I define the rules regarding the management of an art collection in general with emphasis on its appreciation. In the end I show a practical example of the artworks price development using the artworks of one well-known Czech artist, where some of the formal theoretical statements are applied about investing in art and building an art collection. The whole thesis is assembled together with the opinions of experts from the art field in the form of expert interviews by adding their practical notes continuously to the text.
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