Strategic asset allocation purposes and particularly the evaluation of new asset classes require a forward-looking approach. Philipp M. Becker investigates the attractiveness of microfinance investments for different investor categories. To integrate microfinance into an asset allocation...

Part 1. Portfolio building blocks covering foreign exchange, money markets, fixed Income and derivatives Instruments -- 1 Traded Foreign Exchange Instruments -- 2 Traded Money Market Instruments -- 3 Fixed Income Instruments market condition, pricing mechanism, quoting and settlement convention...

Globale Anlagetrends – aktuelle Herausforderungen -- Globalisierung der Güter- und Finanzmärkte – ausgewählte Aspekte aus Sicht einer Notenbank -- Freier Kapitalfluss in Zeiten der Globalisierung -- Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen der Globalisierung – vom Wettbewerb der Rechtsordnungen zu...

Ansätze, Stile und Schubladen -- Volker Schilling und Dirk Sammüller -- Peter E. Huber -- Luca Pesarini -- Dr. Jens Ehrhardt -- Dr. Markus Stahl -- Martin Mack -- Dr. Heinz-Werner Rapp -- Hans-Olov Bornemann -- Markus Mezger -- Felix Zulauf -- Christoph Metzger -- Exkurs: Finanzmärkte und...

As a game of economics, investing involves the basic principles of economics that help investors identify financial goals and constraints, and come up with the right asset and portfolio allocation. Mourdoukoutas outlines the rules for investing in irrational markets successfully.

Introduction -- Part I Fundamentals: Credit Derivatives and Markets -- Mathematical Preliminaries -- Part II Static Models: One Factor Gaussian Copula Model -- Normal Inverse Gaussian Factor Copula Model -- Part III: Term-Structure Models -- Large Homogeneous Cell Approximation for Factor Copula...

Despite popular belief, bond and stock investors are not opposites. Stock investors can apply bond strategies to safeguard returns. And bond investors can do better using a stock selection strategy designed to improve the portfolio's income distribution. This book will teach you to look at...

Foreword; Alejo José G. Sison.- List of tables -- List of figures -- About the editors -- About the authors.- Introduction; Wim Vandekerckhove, Jos Leys, Kristian Alm, Bert Scholtens, Silvana Signori and Henry Schäfer.- Chapter 1. Global finance and the role of responsible investors; Steve...