Asset Management and Institutional Investors

Institutional Investors - Typologies, Roles and Products: Institutional Investors -- Collective Investment Vehicles and Other Asset Management Products -- Investment Management Policy: The Stages of Investment Management Policy -- Strategic Asset Allocation with Mean-Variance Optimisation -- Methods and Tools for Portfolio Selection -- Alternative Approaches to Traditional Mean-Variance Optimisation -- Performance Evaluation for Traditional Investment Portfolios: Performance Evaluation -- Returns-Based Style Analysis -- Performance Attribution -- Portfolio Diversification Towards Alternative Asset Classes: Portfolio Diversification Policies - Alternative Asset Classes -- Hedge Funds -- Hedge Fund Performance -- Private Equity -- Real Estate -- Commodities -- Currency Overlay Techniques.