This self-contained book presents the main techniques of quantitative portfolio management and associated statistical methods in a very didactic and structured way, in a minimum number of pages. The concepts of investment portfolios, self-financing portfolios and absence of arbitrage...

Preface -- Credibility Theory -- Credibilistic Programming -- Mathematical Programming -- Expected Value Model -- Chance-Constrained Programming -- Entropy Maximization Model -- Cross-Entropy Minimization Model -- Regret Minimization Model

This volume presents a collection of contributions dedicated to applied problems in the financial and energy sectors that have been formulated and solved in a stochastic optimization framework. The invited authors represent a group of scientists and practitioners, who cooperated in recent years...

Valuing portfolios of options embedded in investment decisions is arguably one of the most important and challenging problems in real options and corporate ?nance in general. Although the problem is common and vitally important in the value creation process of almost any corporation, it has not...

Markowitz for the Masses: Portfolio Construction Techniques -- Markowitz for the Masses: The Risk and Return of Equity and Portfolio Construction Techniques -- Markowitz and the Expanding Definition of Risk: Applications of Multi-factor Risk Models -- Markowitz Applications in the 1990s and the...

Als Reaktion auf die Schwächen des Value-at-Risk-Konzeptes wurden in der Literatur axiomatische Risikomessansätze als Alternative vorgeschlagen. Mario Brandtner charakterisiert die diesen Ansätzen zugrunde liegenden Risikoverständnisse und präsentiert Techniken zu deren Umsetzung bei der...

Pensionomics puts forward a portfolio perspective on the combination of funded and unfunded pension arrangements. In a second-best type argument it is formally shown that a Pay-As-You-Go pension system can substitute the tradability of human capital. While this ideal form of diversification can...

This book criticizes the fact that profitability measures derived from capital market models such as the Sharpe ratio and the reward-to-VaR ratio are proposed for loan portfolios, although it is not proven whether their risk-return trade-offs are optimal for banks. The authors demonstrate that...