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INTRODUCTION; 1.1 PROBLEM DEFINITION; 1.2 OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE OF THE PAPER; 1.3 METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; 1.4 COMPOSITION OF THE PAPER; 1.5 DEFINITIONS; 2. PRINCIPLES OF INSTITUTIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT; 2.1 SCIENTIFIC APPROACH; 2.2 INDUSTRY EXAMINATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF FUNDS; 2.3 RECENT INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS; 3. ASSET MANAGEMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE; 3.1 LEGAL ENVIRONMENT IN GERMANY AND THE USA 327 $a3.2 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE INSURANCE AND PENSION FUND INDUSTRY3.3 PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE IMPACT OF REGULATION AND GOVERNANCE; 4. EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES; 4.1 DESCRIPTION OF DATA BASIS AND MATHEMATICAL APPROACH; 4.2 RESULTS OF STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; 4.3 ANALYSIS OF RESULTS; 4.4 CONCLUSIONS OF EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION; 5. IMPLICATIONS OF FINDINGS; 5.1 IMPLICATIONS FOR REGULATORS; 5.2 IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS; 6. CONCLUSION; 6.1 SUMMARY; 6.2 OUTLOOK; Appendix; List of References 330 $aThis study examines the current legislature and best practice corporate governance for institutional investors in Germany and the United States. Differences in investment regulation, compliance and disclosure requirements, as well as expense and tax schemes are identified for insurance companies and the pension fund industry. Based on current academic literature, hypotheses about the impact of different regulatory regimes are derived and tested empirically in a comparison between Germany and the United States over the last five years. 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Introduction -- 2. Foundations -- 3. Functions -- 4. The Theory -- 5. Witch-hunts -- 6. Explanations -- 7. Cases -- 8. Reflections -- 9. Conclusion. 330 $aWhy did early modern Europeans hunt for witches? Were these persecutions a shrewd tool to oppress women or the poor, or were they just a way of making money? Or were witch-hunters primarily driven by a genuine belief in witchcraft? The witches' sabbath, the diabolical pact, and the nightly flight were elements in the early modern concept of witchcraft that seem to have been intelligently designed to trigger persistent witch persecutions. But in contrast to what many past historical scholars presumed, witch-hunts were not based on intelligent design. So how to explain them? This book proposes a new model: Darwinian cultural evolution. It contends that witch-hunting's apparent design emerged from a hidden evolutionary process in which cultural variants which accidentally unleashed larger persecutions were cumulatively preserved. 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