The world of private banking is undergoing tremendous change. Regulatory pressures combined with intensive competition are forcing the world's oldest and most respected banks, the Swiss banquiers, to look beyond their national borders and concentrate on exporting their domestic success into the...

The world of private banking is undergoing tremendous change. Regulatory pressures combined with intensive competition are forcing the world's oldest and most respected banks, the Swiss banquiers, to look beyond their national borders and concentrate on exporting their domestic success into the...

In this, the fourth article in the economists' hubris paper series we look at the contributions of academic thought to the field of asset management. We find that while the theoretical aspects of the modern portfolio theory are valuable they offer little insight into how the asset management...