SUBJECT AREAS: valuation, investment analysis, portfolio management, country analysis, emerging markets, development economics.This CD-ROM contains an edited interview with Mark Mobius, one of the best-known asset managers specializing in emerging markets equities. His early advocacy of emerging...

Investors typically measure risk as the probability of a given loss or the amount that can be lost with a given probability at the end of their investment horizons. This view of risk considers only the final result, but investors perceive (or should perceive) risk differently. They are affected...

The financial crisis of 2007-2009 highlighted the importance of liquidity to many investors. University endowment funds, for example, were forced to sell publicly traded securities at substantially depressed values in order to meet funding commitments to private investments. Hedge funds engaged...

The U.S. government's failure to provide oversight and prudent regulation of the financial markets, together with excessive risk taking by some financial institutions, pushed the world financial system to the brink of systemic failure in 2008. As a consequence of this near catastrophe, both...

Investors who are about to retire are first and foremost concerned with supporting their spending needs throughout retirement. But they also derive satisfaction from growing their wealth beyond what is needed to support consumption in order to leave a bequest to their heirs or chosen charities....

The Applied Finance Conference has become an annual event in which academics and practitioners converge to discuss issues of interest to both. On May 15, the 2015 meeting took place at the new facilities of St. John's University in downtown New York. One of the two practitioner-oriented panels...

Retirees need to make two critical financial decisions, namely, the withdrawal rate and the asset allocation of their portfolios. We propose a methodology that retirees, and particularly advisors, could use to make these decisions in an optimal way. We introduce a new variable, the coverage...

"Investors have access to a vast array of assets with which to form portfolios, ranging from individual securities to broadly diversified funds. The first order of business is to organize this massive opportunity set into a manage- able set of choices. If investors stratify their opportunity set...