Dieses Papier beschäftigt sich mit dem Herdenverhalten (“Herding”) vonInvestmentfondsmanagern in Folge von Analystenempfehlungen. Dabei wird zunächstuntersucht, ob sich überhaupt ein gleichgerichtetes Verhalten der Fondsmanager nachVeröffentlichung einer Analystenempfehlung beobachten...

Due to the recent downturn in international equity markets, the interest in real-estate investments has soared. However, the well-known problems of direct real-estate investments complicate becoming well-diversified with this investment class. Indirect real-estate investments can provide a...

As past research suggest, currency exposure risk is a main source of overall risk of internationaldiversified portfolios. Thus, controlling the currency risk is an important instrument forcontrolling and improving investment performance of international investments. This studyexamines the...

Estimation risk is known to have a huge impact on mean/variance (MV) optimized portfolios,which is one of the primary reasons to make standard Markowitz optimization unfeasible inpractice. Several approaches to incorporate estimation risk into portfolio selection are suggestedin the earlier...

The present paper seeks to study the possible diversification potential by the integration ofindirect real estate investments in international portfolios. To this end, monthly index-returntime-series in the time-period from January 1985 till December 1998 from real estate investmentcompanies as...

This paper reports the results of an experiment on portfolio choice in the presence of nontradeable income. The nontradeable income part could either be riskless or risky (background risk). (...)

The authors determine, whether adding foreign assets to a domestic benchmark portfolio improves the risk-return profile from the perspective ofan investor located in a specific country. Here Hungary and Germany.