A common belief among academicians and practitioners is that a company’s strategy should be aligned with its customers' value drivers to deliver superior financial performance. Yet, extant literature lacks 1) an objective measure of strategy-customer alignment, 2) empirical research linking...

Investors have a growing awareness that climate transition risks (such as carbon pricing policy) are among the new risk drivers of the financial system. One of the relevant implications of a shock in carbon price is the increase in business costs, which may diminish profitability and affect...

DAS Standardwerk für die richtige Portfoliostrategie und eine kontinuierliche Rendite in allen Marktphasen. Der Bestseller "Stocks for the long run" in der 5., komplett überarbeiteten Auflage. Weltweit schwankende Aktienmärkte IBM die Zeiten sind chaotisch. Viele Anleger ziehen sich von den...

This paper examines the impact of strategic asset allocation on total returns of investment portfolios. It aims to confirm the results of previous studies using US investment data that found strategic asset allocation dominating the other investment decisions namely market timing and security...

Dynamic trading strategies, in the spirit of trend-following or mean-reversion, represent an only partly understood but lucrative and pervasive area of modern finance. Assuming Gaussian returns and Gaussian dynamic weights or signals, (e.g., linear filters of past returns, such as simple moving...

In this paper, we propose a stop-loss strategy to limit the downside risk of the well-known momentum strategy. At a stop-level of 10%, we find, with data from January 1926 to December 2013, that the maximum monthly losses of the equal- and value-weighted momentum strategies go down from -49.79%...

Vorwort -- Einführung -- Die Konfrontation mit der Finanzkrise -- Weiteres neues Material in der fünften Ausgabe -- Abschließende Bemerkungen -- Danksagungen -- Teil I: Aktienrenditen - Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft -- 1. Das Argument für Aktien -- Historische Fakten und mediale...

"This book is a comprehensive and authoritative presentation of ALM techniques and issues. It covers modeling and practical aspects of ALM and greatly benefits for the author's experience within the ALM group of BNP-Paribas. I think anyone from the student involved in a risk management degree to...