Asset Management: Portfolio Construction, Performance and Returns [Paperback]

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) Performanceof UK equity unit trusts; G Quigley and RA Sinquefield.- 2) Ademystification of the BlackLitterman model: Managing quantitative andtraditional portfolio construction; SSatchell and A Scowcroft.- 3) Tracking error: Ex ante versus expost measures; S Hwang and S Satchell.-4) Hedge Fund Survival Lifetimes; G NGregoriou.- 5) Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fundindustry; D Blake, B N Lehmann and ATimmermann.- 6) Do hedge funds add value to a passive portfolio? Correctingfor 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 equitymarkets; A Bandopadhyaya and A L Schnader.- 9) Incorporating estimationerrors into portfolio selection: Robust portfolio construction; S Ceria and R A Stubbs.- 10)Best-practice pension fund governance; GL Clark and R Urwin.- 11) Fundamental indexation in Europe; J Hemminiki and V Puttonen.- 12)Fundamental indexation: An active value strategy in disguise