This is a portfolio of financial instruments held by an investor, which could be a brokerage or an investment bank. The financial instruments in this trading book include futures, options and straddles, which might be purchased or sold by the investor, in order for him to hedge against various...

Extending price momentum tests to the longest available histories of global financial assets, including country equities, government bonds, currencies, commodities, sectors and U.S. stocks, we create a 215-year history of cross-sectional multi-asset momentum, and confirm the significance of the...

Research on socially responsible investment in equity markets initially focused on sin stocks. Since then, the availability of data has been extended substantially and now covers environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. Using ESG scores of firms belonging to the MSCI World universe,...