This paper presents information on institutional investorsí and investment consultantsí attitudes towards and their performance assumptions for the alternative asset classes, property, and the mainstream markets. It also gives estimates of UK institutional exposures to these asset classes....

This study investigates the effects of the market portfolio being unknown on the estimation of beta in the CAPM. Providing an analysis of the impact of using a proxy for the market portfolio when the market portfolio is known. This allows one to ask and answer 'if what' questions, such as if...

In the paper the exponential risk measure of Damant and Satchell is used to formulate an investor's utility function and the properties of this function are investigated. The utility function is calibrated for a typical UK investor who would hold different proportions of equity. It is found...