Asset Management and International Capital Markets
This innovative volume comprises a selection of original research articles offering a broad perspective on various dimensions of asset management in an international capital market environment. The topics covered include risk management and asset pricing models for portfolio management, performance evaluation and performance measurement of equity mutual funds as well as the wide range of bond portfolio management issues.
Asset Management and International Capital Markets offers interesting new insights into state-of-the-art asset pricing and asset management research with a focus on international issues. Each chapter makes a valuable contribution to current research and literature, and will be of significant importance to the practice of asset management.
This book is a compilation of articles originally published in The European Journal of Finance.
Wolfgang Bessler is Professor of Finance and Banking at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany. His research interest includes corporate finance, empirical capital market research, securities markets, and asset management. He is a member of the editorial board of The European Journal of Finance and associate editor of the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money, amongst others.
Wolfgang Drobetz holds the chair for corporate finance and ship finance at the University of Hamburg, Germany. His research interests are corporate finance, asset pricing, and asset management. He is a member of the editorial board of The European Journal of Finance and served as co-president of the European Financial Management Association (EFMA).
Chris Adcock is Professor of Financial Econometrics at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests are in portfolio selection and asset pricing theory and the development of quantitative techniques for portfolio management. He has acted as an advisor to a number of international investment managers. He is founding editor of The European Journal of Finance and has been an associate editor of several finance journals.