Cochrane and Piazzesi [Cochrane, J.H., Piazzesi, M., 2005. Bond risk premia. American Economic Review 95, 138-160] use forward rates to forecast future bond returns. We extend their approach by applying their model to international bond markets. Our results indicate that the unrestricted...

This article identifies a common latent liquidity factor, which is the driver of observable and commonly used liquidity proxies across asset classes. We use two methodologies to identify the latent liquidity factor: state space modeling (SSM) and principal component analysis (PCA). We find that...

This article finds strong evidence for the presence of the disposition effect among US mutual fund managers. The analysis can establish a link between the disposition effect and mutual fund characteristics as well as changes in the macroeconomic environment. Managers with a lower disposition...

Disappointed with the performance of market weighted benchmark portfolios yet skeptical about the merits of active portfolio management, investors in recent years turned to alternative index definitions. Minimum variance investing is one of these popular concepts. I show in this paper that the...

Quantitative portfolio management has become a highly specialized discipline. Computing power and software improvements have advanced the field to a level that would not have been thinkable when Harry Markowitz began the modern era of quantitative portfolio management in 1952. In addition to raw...

The textbook view on risk in asset management companies is summarized by Hull (Risk Management and Financial Institutions, p. 372, <CitationRef CitationID="CR6">2007</CitationRef>): “For an asset manager the greatest risk is operational risk.” Using evidence from various panel regression models, we show that asset management revenues...</citationref>