Quantitative Fund Management

M.A.H. Dempster, Gautam Mitra, Georg Pflug, M.A.H. Dempster, Gautam Mitra, Georg Pflug

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9781420081923
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Finance
• Index: Business

The First Collection That Covers This Field at the Dynamic Strategic and One-Period Tactical Levels. Addressing the imbalance between research and practice, Quantitative Fund Management presents leading-edge theory and methods, along with their application in practical problems encountered in the fund management industry. A Current Snapshot of State-of-the-Art Applications of Dynamic Stochastic Optimization Techniques to Long-Term Financial Planning - The first part of the book initially looks at how the quantitative techniques of the equity industry are shifting from basic Markowitz mean-variance portfolio optimization to risk management and trading applications. This section also explores novel aspects of lifetime individual consumption investment problems, fixed-mix portfolio rebalancing allocation strategies, debt management for funding mortgages and national debt, and guaranteed return fund construction. Up-to-Date Overview of Tactical Financial Planning and Risk Management - The second section covers nontrivial computational approaches to tactical fund management. This part focuses on portfolio construction and risk management at the individual security or fund manager level over the period up to the next portfolio rebalance. It discusses non-Gaussian returns, new risk-return tradeoffs, and the robustness of benchmarks and portfolio decisions. The Future Use of Quantitative Techniques in Fund Management - With contributions from well-known academics and practitioners, this volume will undoubtedly foster the recognition and wider acceptance of stochastic optimization techniques in financial practice.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Contents
• Editors
• Contributors
• Introduction to Quantitative Fund Management
• Part 1: Dynamic Financial Planning
• Chapter 1. Trends in Quantitative Equity Management: Survey Results
• Chapter 2. Portfolio Optimization under the Value-at-Risk Constraint
• Chapter 3. Dynamic Consumption and Asset Allocation with Derivative Securities
• Chapter 4. Volatility-Induced Financial Growth
• Chapter 5. Constrant Rebalanced Portfolios and Side-Information
• Chapter 6. Improving Performance for Long-Term Investors: Wide Diversification, Leverage and Overlay Strategies
• Chapter 7. Stochastic Programming for Funding Mortgage Pools
• Chapter 8. Scenario-Geneeration Methods for an Optimal Public Debt Strategy
• Chapter 9. Solving ALM Problems via Sequential Stochastic Programming
• Chapter 10. Designing Minimum Guaranteed Return Funds
• Part 2: Portfolio Construction and Risk Management
• Chapter 11. DC Pension Fund Benchmarking with Fixed-Mix Portfolio Optimization
• Chapter 12. Coherent Measures of Risk in Everyday Market Practice
• Chapter 13. Higher Moment Coherent Risk Measures
• Chapter 14. On the Feasibility of Portfolio Optimization under Expected Shortfall
• Chapter 15. Stability Analysis of Portfolio Management with Conditional Value-at-Risk
• Chapter 16. Stress Testing for VaR and CVaR
• Chapter 17. Stable Distributions in the Black-Litterman Approach to Asset Allocation
• Chapter 18. Ambiguity in Portfolio Selection
• Chapter 19. Mean-Risk Models Using Two Risk Measures: A Multi-Objective Approach
• Chapter 20. Implied Non-Recombining Trees and Calibration for the Volatility Smile
• Index
• Back cover