We propose a new holding horizon measure of active management and examine its relation with fund performance. Our measure identifies long-horizon funds as having higher future long-term alphas and owning stocks with superior long-term fundamentals. Such funds supply skills, but these skills only...

We consider a consumption and investment problem where an investor¡¯s investment opportunity gets enlarged when she becomes rich enough, i.e., when her wealth touches a critical level. We derive optimal consumption and investment rules assuming that the investor has a time-separable von...

It is shown that in a market modeled by a vector-valued semimartingale, when we choose the wealth process of an admissible self-financing strategy as a numeraire such that the historical probability measure becomes a martingale measure, then this numeraire must be the wealth process of a growth...