"Portfolio Management with Heuristic Optimization consist of two parts. The first part (Foundations) deals with the foundations of portfolio optimization, its assumptions, approaches and the limitations when ""traditional"" optimization techniques are to be applied. In addition, the basic...

Ergänzende und vertiefende Lernhilfe zum Lehrbuch "Finanzwirtschaft für Anfänger". Es richtet sich an alle, die erste Kenntnisse in den Bereichen Finanzmathematik, Investitionsrechnung und Emission junger Aktien zu erwerben haben.

This paper investigates the time-varying corporate bond index returns in a multi-factor smooth transition regression model. We find that expected index returns vary between weak and strong economic regimes, where the transition from one regime to the other is governed by the 3-quartered growth...