US investors hold much less foreign stocks than mean/variance analysis applied to historical data predicts. In this article, we investigate whether this home bias can be explained by Bayesian approaches to international asset allocation. In contrast to mean/variance analysis, Bayesian approaches...

Traditional balanced funds with a more or less constant stock allocation cannot solve the conflict of various investment horizons that most institutional investors face. In order to generate capital gains, large allocations in risky asset classes such as equities are needed. However, this is not...

U.S. investors hold much less international stock than is optimal according to mean-variance portfolio theory applied to historical data. We investigated whether this home bias can be explained by Bayesian approaches to international asset allocation. In comparison with mean-variance analysis,...