Credit Portfolio Management is a topical text on approaches to the active management of credit risks. The book is a valuable, up to date guide for portfolio management practitioners. Its content comprises of three main parts: The framework for managing credit risks, Active Credit Portfolio...

Read examines probability, risk, and uncertainty through the contributions of John von Neumann, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Kenneth Arrow and Harry Markowitz. These Portfolio Theorists provided us with a dramatic leap forward in our understanding of and insights into financial rewards under risk and...

Bei einer wohnwirtschaftlichen Portfoliobewertung ist eine qualifizierte Wertermittlung auf Einzelobjektebene insbesondere in einer frühen Transaktionsphase aus Zeit- und Kostengründen nicht machbar. Stefan Haas entwickelt eine Bewertungsmethodik, welche standardisiert einen...

Für eine fundierte Anlageentscheidung ist die Messung und Beurteilung der erzielten Ergebnisse unabdingbar. Die Dimensionen Rendite und Risiko sind daher immer gemeinsam zu betrachten, um Fehlallokationen zu vermeiden. Jens Daum untersucht die zur Verfügung stehenden Instrumente der...

Einführung -- Eine Entscheidungstheorie für zeitoptimale Entscheidungen -- Risikoneigung über Zielerreichungszeiten - Eine Analyse auf Basis der klassischen Zeitpräferenztheorie -- Risikoneigung über Zielerreichungszeiten - Eine Analyse auf Basis eines neuen St. Petersburg-Spiels --...

This book presents new approaches to fixed income modeling and portfolio management techniques. Taking into account the latest mathematical and econometric developments in finance, it analyzes the hedging securities and structured instruments that are offered by banks, since recent research in...

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity. Addressing this challenge, this book provides a...

Institutions now dominate trading in equities around the world. Mutual funds are the most prominent, and doubly important as custodians of retirement savings. Despite this, there is no comprehensive description of fund manager behaviour, much less a matching theory. This is troubling because one...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of asset price movement. It examines different aspects of stock return predictability, the interaction between stock return and dividend growth predictability, the relationship between stocks and bonds, and the resulting implications for asset price...

Asset bubbles and contagion have had a profound effect on the financial markets after the financial and sovereign debt crises. This book takes a quantitative approach to examining these phenomena and will appeal to practitioners who need to understand the repercussions of these events on trading...