Asset Management

This book presents a series of contributions on key issues inthe decision-making behind the management of financial assets. It providesinsight into topics such as quantitative and traditional portfolioconstruction, performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fundindustry, pension fund governance, indexation, and trackingerrors. Markets covered include major European markets, equities, andemerging markets of South-East and Central Asia.

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
measures;
S Hwang
and
S Satchell
. -
4) Hedge Fund Survival Lifetimes;
G N
Gregoriou
. - 5) Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund
industry;
D Blake, B N Lehmann and A
Timmermann
. - 6) Do hedge funds add value to a passive portfolio? Correcting
for non-normal returns and disappearing funds? ; R Kourwenberg. - 7) The performance of value and momentum investment portfolios: Recent experience in the major European markets;
R Bird and J Whitaker
. - 8) Measuring investor sentiment in equity
markets;
A Bandopadhyaya and A L Schnader
. - 9) Incorporating estimation
errors into portfolio selection: Robust portfolio construction;
S Ceria and R A Stubbs. -
10)
Best-practice pension fund governance;
G
L Clark and R Urwin
. - 11) Fundamental indexation in Europe;
J Hemminiki and V Puttonen
. - 12)
Fundamental indexation: An active value strategy in disguise
; D Blitz and L Swinkels
. - 13)
Emerging markets of South-East and Central Asia: Do they still offer a
diversification benefit;
C L Dunis and G Shannon.
- 14) A robust optimization approach to
pension fund management;
G Iyengar and A
K C Ma.