Asset Management and International Capital Markets (Paperback, 1)

1. Introduction Wolfgang Bessler, Wolfgang Drobetz and Chris Adcock  2. From Markowitz to modern risk management Gordon J. Alexander  3. Long-horizon consumption risk and the cross-section of returns: new tests and international evidence Joachim Grammig, Andreas Schrimpf and Michael Schuppli  4. Performance measures and incentives: loading negative coskewness to outperform the CAPM Alexandros Kostakis  5. Conditional performance evaluation for German equity mutual funds Wolfgang Bessler, Wolfgang Drobetz and Heinz Zimmermann  6. Conditioning information in mutual fund performance evaluation: Portuguese evidence Paulo Armada Leite and Maria Ceu Cortez  7. Performance and characteristics of mutual fund starts Aymen Karoui and Iwan Meier  8. Individual home bias, portfolio churning and performance Lars Norden  9. Diversification benefits for bond portfolios Wassim Dbouk and Lawrence Kryzanowski  10. International bond diversification strategies: the impact of currency, country, and credit risk Mats Hansson, Eva Liljeblom and Anders Loflund  11. The performance of investment grade corporate bond funds: evidence from the European market Leif Holger Dietze, Oliver Entrop and Marco Wilkens