Duration and convexity are important measures in fixed-income portfolio management and help develop methodologies in interest rate risk management. This article presents empirical test of duration and convexity of Zero-Coupon Bonds( ZCBs )at NSE in order to determine sensitivity of ZCBs prices...

Among all topics discussed during the International Conference on Multidimensional Finance, Insurance and Investment (ICMFII' 2013) held at the College of Business Administration of University of Bahrain from 23 to 25 November 2013, Islamic finance generated a lot of interest from conference...

The present study investigates the possible existence of a systematic relation between beta and excess-return for portfolios of Turkish equities. In the process, no systematic relation is found between beta and realized portfolio excessreturn, in an unconditional sense. However, the study does...

Quantitative investment strategies are often selected from a broad class of candidate models estimated and tested on historical data. Standard statistical technique to prevent model overfitting such as out-sample back-testing turns out to be unreliable in the situation when selection is based on...