This monograph consists of two parts. One part is portfolio selection theory and the other part is capital asset pricing theory. For each part, a comprehensive review of the original theory, efforts to improve the theory afterwards and future works to be done are presented. Some innovative...

This article analyzes the effect of liquidity risk on the performance of various hedge fund portfolio strategies. Similarly to Avramov et al. (2007), we find that, before accounting for the effect of liquidity risk, hedge fund portfolios that incorporate predictability in managerial skills...