This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory they should not? - How do investors deal with such...

The trend towards eliminating defined benefit (DB) pension plans in favour of defined contribution (DC) plans implies that increasing numbers of pension plan participants will bear the risk that final realized portfolio values may be insufficient to fund desired retirement cash flows. We compare...

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei Aufsätzen, welche Themen aus dem Bereich Risiko-Beurteilung und Risiko-Management behandeln. Der erste Aufsatz in Kapitel 1 analysiert die Risikodynamik von Hedge Funds, indem neue Faktoren zur Risikobeurteilung eingeführt werden. Der zweite Aufsatz in...