The asset management industry is increasingly confronted with the investor’s demand for absolute-performance portfolios. Beside the challenge to come up with appropriate investment strategies, asset managers also face the problem of explaining the achieved results, especially whether these...

Introduction -- The Time Value of Money -- The Flat Yield Curve Concept -- The Internal Rate of Return for a Bond Portfolio -- The Term Structure of Interest Rate -- Spread Analysis -- Different Fixed Income Instruments -- Fixed-Income Benchmarks -- Convertible -- Multi Currency Portfolio --...

This textbook first introduces the reader to return measurement and then goes on to compare the time-weighted rate of return (TWR) with the money-weighted rate of return (MWR). To emphasize the importance of risk in conjunction with return, different tracking errors are analyzed and ex-post...