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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254876503321

Titolo

Asset Management : Portfolio Construction, Performance and Returns / / edited by Stephen Satchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-30794-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (Approx. 345 p. 142 illus.)

Disciplina

657.7

Soggetti

Investment banking

Securities

Risk management

Capital investments

Personal finance

Pension plans

Capital market

Investments and Securities

Risk Management

Investment Appraisal

Personal Finance/Wealth Management/Pension Planning

Capital Markets

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; Stephen Satchell -- 1) Performance of UK equity unit trusts; G Quigley and R A Sinquefield -- 2) A demystification of the Black–Litterman model: Managing quantitative and traditional portfolio construction; S Satchell and A Scowcroft -- 3) Tracking error: Ex ante versus ex post measures; S Hwang and S Satchell -- 4) Hedge Fund Survival Lifetimes; G N Gregoriou -- 5) Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry; D Blake, B N Lehmann and A Timmermann -- 6) Do hedge funds add value to a passive portfolio? Correcting for non-normal returns and disappearing funds?; R Kourwenberg -- 7) The performance of value and momentum



investment portfolios: Recent experience in the major European markets; R Bird and J Whitaker -- 8) Measuring investor sentiment in equity markets; A Bandopadhyaya and A L Schnader -- 9) Incorporating estimation errors into portfolio selection: Robust portfolio construction; S Ceria and R A Stubbs -- 10) Best-practice pension fund governance; G L Clark and R Urwin -- 11) Fundamental indexation in Europe; J Hemminiki and V Puttonen -- 12) Fundamental indexation: An active value strategy in disguise; D Blitz and L Swinkels -- 13) Emerging markets of South-East and Central Asia: Do they still offer a diversification benefit; C L Dunis and G Shannon -- 14) A robust optimization approach to pension fund management; G Iyengar and A K C Ma.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a series of contributions on key issues in the decision-making behind the management of financial assets. It provides insight into topics such as quantitative and traditional portfolio construction, performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry, pension fund governance, indexation, and tracking errors. Markets covered include major European markets, equities, and emerging markets of South-East and Central Asia. .