Part 1: Portfolio Management -- Chapter 1. Return -- Chapter 2. Risk -- Chapter 3. Other Investment Characteristics -- Chapter 4. Efficient Risky Portfolios -- Chapter 5. Optimal Portfolio -- Chapter 6 Capital Asset Pricing Model and Fama−french Model -- Chapter 7. Portfolio Management Process...

We introduce a new meaure of risk appetite in financial markets, based on the cross sectional behavior of excess returns. Turning them into probabilities through a Markov Switching model, we define one global risk appetite measure as the cross-sectional average of the individual probabilities...

We conduct a comprehensive asset pricing analysis for the U.S. property/liability insurance industry using monthly data from 1988 to 2015. We find that state-of-the-art models such as the Fama and French (2015) five-factor model cannot explain the returns of property/liability insurance stocks...