, investment processes, risk management, monitoring, and transparency. We find empirical evidence that pension fund governance is …

arising from a fund's assets, investor risk reflecting the likelihood that a fund's shareholders will redeem shares … disruptively, and sponsor risk due to uncertainty about MMF sponsors' support for distressed funds. I find that during the run on … three types of risk. In contrast, as the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) crisis unfolded in 2007, many MMFs suffered …

We implement a long-horizon static and dynamic portfolio allocation involving a risk-free and a risky asset. This model …

theory suggests that with increasing labor income risk, the reluctance of households to hold stocks increases. We propose to … measure income risk as the observed variation of household income over a five year period. We find that indeed higher income … risk reduces the propensity to invest in stocks. However, when controlling for household heterogeneity as well as …

expectations of usually risk-averse investors. The manager should also consider that the investor are seeking for a downside … protection when the benchmark performs poorly and thus they should integrate a form of downside risk control. We propose a …, the control of the downside risk is carried out through the presence of a floor benchmark with respect to which we can …

about estimation risk in FFMs in high dimensions. We investigate whether recent linear and non-linear shrinkage methods help … to reduce the estimation risk in the asset return covariance matrix. Our findings indicate that modest improvements are …

risk and returns that characterize the domestic and the foreign investment opportunity sets. Optimal portfolios and hedging …

consistently outperform the 1/N naive diversification strategy, which highlights estimation-risk concerns. Building from Stevens … mitigating estimation risk. Using five different data sets of disaggregate portfolio returns over the 1926-2012 period, we find …

income risk affects equity ownership turnover. A portfolio choice model with an income process extracted from survey data … risk. The model yields realistic estimates for the coefficient of relative risk aversion (= 3.09) and the discount factor …