A new study by the Center for Research in Financial Communication at leipzig University in cooperation with the DIRK - Deutscher Ivestor Relations Verband and Deutsches Aktieninstitut shows that young people under the age of 35, the...
Employee share ownership is an important point on the capital market policy agenda of the federal government. The tax allowance, which was already raised last year from 360 euros p.a. to 1,440 euros p.a., is to be increased again. Reason...
Where do German listed companies stand in the transformation process towards a sustainable economy? We explored this question with the law firm Hengeler Mueller in the joint study "Companies in the Transformation Process - Challenges and...
The study "Foreign Listings of BioNTech, CureVac & Co. - Recommendations for policymakers for more IPOs in Germany", in cooperation with RITTERSHAUS Rechtsanwälte, answers the question why German high-growth companies go public abroad.
The...
A reliable audit is in the interest of all stakeholders. The Wirecard case has once again brought the discussion on audit quality into sharper focus. Due to the importance of the topic, we have investigated the question of how the...
How has the 2020 virtual AGM proved itself? What can companies learn from last year's experience? And what makes a good virtual AGM in the first place?
In our study, CFOs, AGM service providers, shareholder representatives and...
How do shareholders inform themselves? What are their preferences regarding dividend payments? Do they regard shares as instruments of wealth building? These and other related questions are analysed by this study which was prepared by Prof....
Misunderstandings, bad feelings and a significant level of desinterest prevent Germans from investing money into shares. Even historically low interest rates have not increased their interest in equity investments. This is the core result...
The return triangle for employee shares developed by experts of the hkp/// group calculates returns of, by way of examples, employee share ownership programs of the indices DAX, MDAX, TecDAX und SDAX, and for companies belonging to the...
Deutsches Aktieninstitut jointly published the results of a survey among small and mid seized listed companies and capital market experts regarding the going and being public. Apart from the necessity to invest more in shares via the...
Together with EY Deutsches Aktieninstitut released a guideline explaining the steps for a successful implementation of employee share schemes (planning, design, compliance, communication and administration). These steps are illustrated by...
Allocating assets partly into equities can help foundations to better serve their charitable objectives – not only at the currently low interest rates. This is a central result of a study of Deutsches Aktieninstitut and UBS Deutschland AG...
The Germans still show a number of misunderunstandings about and prejudices against shares that form an obstacle for a deeper equity culture. However, the potential for improvement is higher than the number of shareholders in Germany...
As a result of the increasing regulation more and more banks refrain from providing investment advice for shares. This is the main outcome of a survey conducted among German credit institutions. Due to strict regulatory requirements 22 per...
The study provides the results of asurvey among morethan 400,000 retail investors of Deutsche Post DHL. Answers to the following questions are given: What sources of information do retail investors use? Do they preferdividends or...
A study conducted by Deutsches Aktieninstitut and Ernst [&] Young (EY) shows that many stock listed companies already provide a share based compensation or intend to implement one. Nevertheless, the potential for employee shareholdership in...
This joint study of Deutsches Aktieninstitut and PricewaterhouseCooopers summarises the experience of listed companies with the enforcement of accounts by the German enforcer, Deutsche Prüfstelle für Rechnungslegung (Financial Reporting...