"Asymmetric Dependence (hereafter, AD) is usually thought of as a cross-sectional phenomenon. Andrew Patton describes AD as "stock returns appear to be more highly correlated during market downturns than during market upturns." (Patton, 2004) Thus at a point in time when the market return is...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Disappointment Aversion, Asset Pricing and Measuring Asymmetric Dependence -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 From Skiadas Preferences to Asset Prices -- 1.3 Consistently Measuring Asymmetric Dependence --...

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...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Behavioural Finance and Momentum -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The failure of risk‐based explanations -- 1.3 Behavioural models of momentum -- 1.4 Slow information diffusion -- 1.5 Patterns in information...

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...

"Broadly, financial market momentum occurs when past high returns are followed by subsequent high returns, while past low returns are similarly followed by subsequent low returns. It is claimed that the momentum phenomenon contravenes the Efficient Markets Hypothesis. Consequently, it has been...