Intro -- Alternative Investments -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- PART 1 Asset Allocation and Institutional Investors -- 1 Asset Allocation Processes and the Mean-Variance Model -- 1.1 Importance of Asset Allocation -- 1.2 The Five Steps of the Asset Allocation...

With growing liberalization of economies across the globe over the past few decades, there has been an increased sense among financial market participants that international financial markets have become more integrated. Yet there is very little consensus among the existing studies on the...

We examine the relation between chief executive officer (CEO) inside debt holdings and the firm's choice between debt and equity financing when it accesses external capital markets. We find positive relations between CEO inside debt holdings and both the firm's likelihood to issue debt and the...

Hedge fund managers with asymmetric performance-based compensation packages have the incentive to increase the risk taking of their funds in response to poor performance. Based on regression analysis of data from a panel of dollar-based hedge funds from 1994-2008, we find evidence that they do...