Asset Management and Institutional Investors [electronic resource] /
Basile, Ignazio.editor.
Ferrari, Pierpaolo.editor.
This book analyses investment management policies for institutional investors. It is composed of four parts. The first one analyses the various types of institutional investors, institutions which, with different objectives, professionally manage portfolios of financial and real assets on behalf of a wide variety of individuals. This part goes on with an in-depth analysis of the economic, technical and regulatory characteristics of the different types of investment funds and of other types of asset management products, which have a high rate of substitutability with investment funds and represent their natural competitors. The second part of the book identifies and investigates the stages of the investment portfolio management. Given the importance of strategic asset allocation in explaining the ex post performance of any type of investment portfolio, this part provides an in-depth analysis of asset allocation methods, illustrating the different theoretical and operational solutions available to institutional investors. The third part describes performance assessment, its breakdown and risk control, with an in-depth examination of performance evaluation techniques, returns-based style analysis approaches, and performance attribution models. Finally, the fourth part deals with the subject of diversification into alternative asset classes, identifying the common characteristics and their possible role within the framework of investment management policies. This part analyses hedge funds, private equity, real estate, commodities, and currency overlay techniques. .
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Institutional Investors - Typologies, Roles and Products: Institutional Investors -- Collective Investment Vehicles and Other Asset Management Products -- Investment Management Policy: The Stages of Investment Management Policy -- Strategic Asset Allocation with Mean-Variance Optimisation -- Methods and Tools for Portfolio Selection -- Alternative Approaches to Traditional Mean-Variance Optimisation -- Performance Evaluation for Traditional Investment Portfolios: Performance Evaluation -- Returns-Based Style Analysis -- Performance Attribution -- Portfolio Diversification Towards Alternative Asset Classes: Portfolio Diversification Policies - Alternative Asset Classes -- Hedge Funds -- Hedge Fund Performance -- Private Equity -- Real Estate -- Commodities -- Currency Overlay Techniques.
This book analyses investment management policies for institutional investors. It is composed of four parts. The first one analyses the various types of institutional investors, institutions which, with different objectives, professionally manage portfolios of financial and real assets on behalf of a wide variety of individuals. This part goes on with an in-depth analysis of the economic, technical and regulatory characteristics of the different types of investment funds and of other types of asset management products, which have a high rate of substitutability with investment funds and represent their natural competitors. The second part of the book identifies and investigates the stages of the investment portfolio management. Given the importance of strategic asset allocation in explaining the ex post performance of any type of investment portfolio, this part provides an in-depth analysis of asset allocation methods, illustrating the different theoretical and operational solutions available to institutional investors. The third part describes performance assessment, its breakdown and risk control, with an in-depth examination of performance evaluation techniques, returns-based style analysis approaches, and performance attribution models. Finally, the fourth part deals with the subject of diversification into alternative asset classes, identifying the common characteristics and their possible role within the framework of investment management policies. This part analyses hedge funds, private equity, real estate, commodities, and currency overlay techniques. .
Investment banking.
Securities.
Business enterprises-Finance.
Finance.
Risk management.
Capital market.
Investments and Securities.
Business Finance.
Quantitative Finance.
Risk Management.
Capital Markets.