In dieser Arbeit setzen wir uns mit den Auswirkungen von Risikobeschränkungen auf das optimale Verhalten eines Investors auseinander, welcher versucht, den erwarteten Endnutzen zu einem festgelegten Zeitpunkt zu maximieren. Dazu kann er ein vorgegebenes Anfangsvermögen in einem Markt...

The work covers a variety of aspects, with the four main chapters combining qualitative and quantitative information on the hedge fund industry. Generally speaking, Chapters 2, 3, and the first part of Chapter 4 provide qualitative hedge fund research while quantitative aspects are discussed in...

In dieser Arbeit wird der Einfluss der Anlagedauer auf die strategische Asset Allokation untersucht. Als Modell wird ein Anleger angenommen, der sein Geld am Anfang auf eine Aktie (die ein Aktienportfolio repr?sentiert) und eine Anleihe aufteilt und bis zum Ende das Portfolio nicht umschichtet,...

Kern der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines Black-Litterman-Modells zur Allokation von Immobilienportfolios. Motiviert durch die global zunehmende Bedeutung des Immobilien-Portfoliomanagements und die begrenzte Eignung der Markowitz?schen Portfolio-Selektionstheorie in der Praxis wird...

This study uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine whether self-regulation, proxied by regularly dining together with family, is associated with better financial preparedness and greater wealth accumulation across time among households. Findings reveal that individuals who...

In order to obtain the best tradeoff between risk and return, optimization algorithms are particularly useful in asset allocation in a portfolio mix. Such algorithms and proper solution techniques are very essential to investors in order to circumvent distress in business outfits. In this paper,...

I use a transition probability matrix associated with different global market conditions and I assume that it captures switches in central bank preferences between approximated constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) expected utility and approximated increasing relative risk aversion (IRRA)...

The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is one of the most important economic and financial hypotheses that have been tested over the past century. Due to many abnormal phenomena and conflicting evidence, otherwise known as anomalies against EMH, some academics have questioned whether EMH is...

One of the main challenges investors have to face is model uncertainty. Typically, the dynamic of the assets is modeled using two parameters: the drift vector and the covariance matrix, which are both uncertain. Since the variance/covariance parameter is assumed to be estimated with a certain...

In this paper, we deal with the possibility of using econophysics concepts in dynamic portfolio optimization. The main idea of the research is that combining different methodological aspects in portfolio selection can enhance portfolio performance over time. Using data on CESEE stock market...