Fixed income investors attempt to outperform their benchmarks by expression views on yield curve allocations, sector and quality allocations and security selection. This article presents a quantitative study based on a perfect foresight world assumption of the relative merits of the various...

We develop a two-layer asset pricing framework to analyze the fragility of the corporate bond market. In the model, households allocate wealth to institutional investors such as mutual funds and insurance companies. Institutional investors then allocate funds to specific assets. Equilibrium...

Dieses Buch deckt die Konzepte der Finanzmarkttheorie ab, die für die Kapitalanlage relevant sind. Dabei werden die finanzmarkttheoretischen Konzepte verständlich erklärt, wobei neben der Theorie auch die praktische Umsetzung gezeigt wird. Die Finance-Konzepte werden, wann immer möglich, an...

Terms and Essays -- Deposit Insurance Schemes -- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: Creating a New Bank for a New Millennium -- Pre-funded Coupon and Zero-Coupon Bonds: Cost of Capital Analysis -- Intertemporal Risk and Currency Risk -- Credit Derivatives -- Foreign exchange risk premium and policy...