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Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting (5th Edition)

Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting (5th Edition)

Bernd Scherer

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Completely updated and extended to cover the rapid expansion of the literature since the financial crises, this new edition of Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting provides the reader with a clear overview of the subject. The author presents quantitative methods and comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of alternative portfolio construction techniques, ranging from traditional methods based on mean– variance and lower-partial moments approaches, through Bayesian techniques, to more recent developments such as portfolio re-sampling and stochastic programming solutions using scenario optimisation.

Chapters feature:

•    Application in Mean–Variance Investing
•    Incorporating Deviations from Normality
•    Portfolio Resampling and Estimation Error
•    Robust Portfolio Optimisation and Estimation Error
•    Bayesian Analysis and Portfolio Choice

This new edition is highly recommended for practitioners including portfolio managers, consultants, strategists, marketers and quantitative analysts.

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Table of contents

1.    A Primer on Portfolio Theory

2.    Application in Mean–Variance Investing

3.    Diversification - NEW CHAPTER

4.    Frictional diversification costs - NEW CHAPTER

5.    Risk Parity - NEW CHAPTER

6.    Incorporating Deviations from Normality: Lower Partial Moments

7.    Portfolio Resampling and Estimation Error

8.    Robust Portfolio Optimisation and Estimation Error

9.    Bayesian Analysis and Portfolio Choice

10.    Testing Portfolio Construction Methodologies Out-of-Sample

11.    Portfolio Construction with Transaction Costs

12.    Portfolio Optimisation with Options: From the Static Replication of CPPI Strategies to a More General Framework

13.    Scenario Optimisation

14.    Core–Satellite Investing: Budgeting Active Manager Risk

15.    Benchmark-Relative Optimisation

16.    Removing Long-Only Constraints: 120/20 Investing

17.    Performance-Based Fees, Incentives and Dynamic Tracking Error Choice

18.    Long-Term Portfolio Choice

19.    Risk Management for Asset-Management Companies

20.    Valuation of Asset Management Firms

21.    Tail Risk Hedging