Responses to a survey of investment management practitioners in Europe show that most practitioners are aware of key academic concepts in portfolio construction. But they still resort to ad hoc heuristics when they construct portfolios. Consideration of risk-return matters is less common in...

This paper introduces a novel method for the construction of equity indices that, unlike their cap-weighted counterparts, offer an efficient risk/return trade-off. The index construction method goes back to the roots of modern portfolio theory and focuses on the tangency portfolio, the portfolio...