4th Quarter (2008)

Kay Giesecke, Thorsten Schmidt and Stefan Weber Risk management is an important component of the investment process. It requires quantitative measures of risk that provide a metric for the comparison of financial positions. In this expository note we give an overview of risk measures. In particular, we contrast different risk measures with respect to their… Read more

Stephen J. Brown, Thomas L. Fraser and Bing Liang Due diligence is an important source of alpha in a well designed hedge fund portfolio strategy. It is generally understood that the high returns possible in investing in hedge funds are somewhat offset by the relative lack of transparency on operational issues. The performance of a… Read more

Hersh Shefrin Behavioral finance has profound implications for the pricing of all assets, from standard fixed income securities and equity to complex derivatives. This paper describes a general, unified framework for analyzing the impact of sentiment on asset prices. The approach brings together the psychological assumptions favored by behavioral asset pricing theorists and the powerful… Read more