In this paper, we examine the scope for international stock portfolio diversification, from the viewpoint of a United States representative investor, in regard to both the Asian and the European stock markets. Our findings indicate that despite correlation style evidence to the contrary, the...

Variations in fine wine prices can be prominent and have widespread economic and financial implications. Although fine wine investments are dominated by French wines, we demonstrate that significant international diversification benefits exist for investors in Italian, Australian and Portuguese...

This paper examines the gains to portfolio diversification in the corporate bond market, which has largely gone ignored despite the extensive literature documenting the benefits in equity markets. Analysis of a newly compiled bond level data-set finds that portfolio diversification in corporate...

Using data on security holdings of 10,771 institutional investors from 72 different countries, we test whether concentrated investment strategies result in excess risk-adjusted returns to institutional investors. We examine three measures of portfolio concentration: home country, foreign...

We investigate the effects of bull and bear markets on correlations between developed and emerging country equity returns, and on the benefits of combining international markets in a portfolio. We find that, contrary to most other studies, correlations fall in both bull and bear markets,...

Investors are increasingly showing interest in risk premia strategies across asset classes. Carry is one of the most studied premia. To successfully execute a risk premia strategy, it is important to have a detailed understanding of how individual premia returns are affected by macroeconomic...

I present an improved equity momentum measure for corporate bonds and study the Euro denominated global investment grade corporate bond market between 2000 and 2016. I document economically meaningful and statistically significant corporate bond return predictability. In contrast to the widely...

This Article attempts to define hedge funds and to distinguish them from a variety of similar investment funds. After reviewing the hedge fund definition in the U.S. and the EU, this Article argues that the current regulatory framework, which defines hedge funds by reference to what they are not...

This paper proposed an optimisation mechanism in the currency overlay portfolios construction process, an area that has not been explored in the literature that tend to focus on pre-determined fixed weights, such as the trading volume of currencies from the survey of the Bank for International...

We investigate the effects of bull and bear markets on correlations between developed and emerging country equity returns, and on the benefits of combining international markets in a portfolio. Contrary to most other studies we find that correlations fall in both bull and bear markets, although...