The Cluster Private Finance contains all activities in the Center of Finance belonging to Retail Finance. We analyze investment and finance decisions of households. Benefit and pension plans are also part of the cluster’s theoretical and empirical research.
Specific research topics/projects in this cluster are for instance:
- Investment-management and asset-management for private investors
- Pension finance
- Influence of taxes on investment decisions
- Behavioral finance
- Real estate finance
- Exchange traded funds, certificates, Lottery bonds
- Corporate valuation
- Investor relations
- M & A and fairness opinions
- IPOs
Professors Röder (President, Head of Cluster), Sebastian (Vice President) and Dorfleitner (Vice President) – and their teams – are particularly involved in this cluster, they all have published numerous articles on the above subjects in both national and international journals.
The following lectures belong in this cluster:
- Investment and asset management
- Financial management
- Real estate investment
- Capital market management
The participants in the cluster are working with practitioners in cooperation and in the fields of consulting and education, including:
- Value Investing with the Value Group, Munich
- Fairness Opinion with Oppenhoff & Rädler Corporate Finance, Munich, and Duff & Phelps, Munich
