Fund managers are paid a fixed management fee in proportion to their assets under management. This means to maximize revenue, managers hoard assets. Whilst this results in increased revenue for the manager often, due to diseconomies of scale, it results in lower returns for the investor. Here we...

We introduce a technology that estimates basis assets and thus the cost of capital. The generalized basis assets technology groups firms together into homogeneous risk classes which share the same systematic risk and therefore the same, commensurate, systematic return. By knowing a firm's risk...

We consider the role of special orders in informed traders' order submission strategies and their effect on the market price discovery process. Special orders, such as Fill-or-Kill and All-or-Nothing orders, are not entered in the order book; instead, they are executed immediately. This means...