Polynomial goal programming, in which investor preferences for skewness can be incorporated, is utilized to determine the optimal portfolio from Latin American, US and European capital markets.The empirical findings suggest that the incorporation of skewness into an investors portfolio decision...

Based on several research studies and in particular the theoretical study of Prakash, de Boyrie, Hamid and Smyser (1997), it is known that the variance as well as the skewness of the probability distribution of rates of return increases if the investors' investment interval increases. In the...

We use daily geometric mean returns to investigate abnormal returns in mutual funds by applying four well known models, namely the CAPM, three-moment CAPM, Fama and French (1993) three-factor and Carhart (1997) four-factor models under different economic cycles and over different fund...