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Asset Management

Portfolio Construction, Performance and Returns

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Demystifies the Black–Litterman model
  • Presents robust portfolio construction strategies
  • Explores the performance of UK equity unit trusts
  • Analyses ex ante versus ex post measures
  • Covers issues in fundamental indexation in Europe

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction

    • Stephen Satchell
    Pages 1-8
  3. Performance of UK Equity Unit Trusts

    • Garrett Quigley, Rex A. Sinquefield
    Pages 9-35
  4. Tracking Error: Ex Ante Versus Ex Post Measures

    • Stephen E. Satchell, Soosung Hwang
    Pages 54-62
  5. Performance Clustering and Incentives in the UK Pension Fund Industry

    • David Blake, Bruce N. Lehmann, Allan Timmermann
    Pages 63-94
  6. Measuring Investor Sentiment in Equity Markets

    • Arindam Bandopadhyaya, Anne Leah Jones
    Pages 258-269
  7. Best-Practice Pension Fund Governance

    • Gordon L. Clark, Roger Urwin
    Pages 295-322
  8. Fundamental Indexation in Europe

    • Julius Hemminki, Vesa Puttonen
    Pages 323-330
  9. Fundamental Indexation: An Active Value Strategy in Disguise

    • David Blitz, Laurens Swinkels
    Pages 331-338
  10. A Robust Optimization Approach to Pension Fund Management

    • Garud Iyengar, Alfred Ka Chun Ma
    Pages 339-363
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 364-369

About this book

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 fund governance, indexation, and tracking errors. Markets covered include major European markets, equities, and emerging markets of South-East and Central Asia. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sydney University, Australia

    Stephen Satchell

About the editor

Stephen Satchell is Professor of Finance at Sydney University, Australia. His research covers a number of topics in the broad areas of econometrics, finance, risk measurement and utility theory, and his current research looks at alternative methods of portfolio construction and risk management, as well as work on non-linear dynamic models. Stephen has strong links with Inquire (Institute for Quantitative Investment Research), is on the management committee of LQG (London Quant Group), and is a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge where he has Isaac Newton's rooms.

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eBook USD 139.00
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Softcover Book USD 179.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 179.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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