The purpose of this study is to identify the behavior of returns and volatility with the attributes of non-linearities and asymmetric patterns in the returns series of KSE and modeling of volatility for asset pricing with macroeconomic, value at risk and semi-variance in GARCH specification....

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all the steps of asset allocation: detecting the market invariants; estimating the invariants' distribution; modeling the market at any horizon; defining optimality; accounting for estimation- and model-risk; including the practitioner's experience...