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This book relates to strategic asset allocation for institutional investors. It consists of a collection of edited papers from academics worldwide on the latest developments in asset allocation, portfolio management and international investments. These expert studies can improve the risk and return characteristics of your investment portfolio.
List of contents
Time Varying Downside Risk: An Application to the Art Market; R. Campbell and R. Kräussl International Stock Portfolios and Optimal Currency Hedging with Regime Switching; M. Leippold and F. Morger The Determinants of Domestic and Foreign Biases: An Empirical Study; F. Abid and S. Bahloul The Critical Line Algorithm for UPM-LPM Parametric General Asset Allocation Problem with Allocation Boundaries and Linear Constraints; D. Cumova, D. Moreno, and D. Nawrocki Currency Crises, Contagion and Portfolio Selection; A. Bandopadhyaya and S. Nagarajan Bond and Stock Market Linkages: The Case of Mexico and Brazil; A. Bandopadhyaya Australian Stock Market: An Empirical Investigation; A. Chan and J. Wickramanayake The Price of Efficiency - so, what do you think about emerging markets?; Z. Berenyi Liquidity and Market Efficiency before and after the Introduction of Electronic Trading at the Sydney Futures Exchange; M. Burgess and J. Wickramanayake How Does Systematic Risk Impact Stocks? A Study on the French Financial Market; H. Gatfaoui Matrix Elliptical Contoured Distributions versus Stable Model: Application to Daily Stock Returns of Eight Stock Markets; T. Bodnar and W. Schmid Modified Sharpe Ratio Applied to Canadian Hedge Funds; G. N. Gregoriou Index
About the author
GREG N. GREGORIOU is Assistant Professor of Finance and coordinator of faculty research in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York (Plattsburgh). He received his BA in economics from Concordia University and his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Quebec at Montreal. He is an associate with the Peritus Group in Montreal and the hedge fund editor and an editorial board member for Derivatives Use, Trading and Regulation (London). Gregoriou has published over forty articles on hedge funds and CTAs for peer-reviewed publications such as the Journal of Futures Markets, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Finance, and Journal of Asset Management. He is coauthor or coeditor of three books on hedge funds and CTAs: Performance Evaluation of Hedge Funds; Hedge Funds: Strategies, Risk Assessment, and Returns; and Commodity Trading Advisors: Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection (Wiley).
Summary
This book relates to strategic asset allocation for institutional investors. It consists of a collection of edited papers from academics worldwide on the latest developments in asset allocation, portfolio management and international investments. These expert studies can improve the risk and return characteristics of your investment portfolio.
