Applied Asset and Risk Management A Guide to Modern Portfolio Management and Behavior-Driven Markets /

• Main Authors: Schulmerich, Marcus (Author), Leporcher, Yves-Michel (Author), Eu, Ching-Hwa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Management for Professionals,
• Subjects: Finance.; Business mathematics.; Personal finance.; Pension plans.; Economics, Mathematical.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Industrial psychology.; Finance, general.; Quantitative Finance.; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology.; Business Mathematics.; Wealth Management/Pension Planning.; Mathematical Applications in Computer Science.

This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory they should not? - How do investors deal with such cri...

Table of Contents:

• Risk Measures in Asset Management
• Modern Portfolio Theory and Its Problems
• Stock Market Anomalies
• Stock Market Crashes
• Explaining Stock Market Crashes: A Behavioral Finance Approach
• Investor Risk Perceptions and Investments: Recent Developments.