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Foundations and TrendsŪ in Finance

PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

by George O Aragon (Arizona State University) & Wayne E Ferson (University of Southern California)

Portfolio Performance Evaluation reviews the academic literature on evaluating portfolio performance, focusing on professionally managed investment portfolios. Recent years have witnessed an explosion of new methods for performance evaluation and new evidence on the subject.

Portfolio Performance Evaluation provides a selective review of the methods for measuring portfolio performance and the evidence on the performance of professionally managed investment portfolios. There is also a discussion of hedge funds presenting unique challenges for measuring risk adjusted performance and for interpreting performance measures.

Portfolio Performance Evaluation summarizes the historical evidence on the performance of mutual funds and hedge funds using actual data.

Published by Now Publishers and marketed by World Scientific


Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Classical Measures of Portfolio Performance
  • Conditional Performance Evaluation
  • The Stochastic Discount Factor (SDF) Approach
  • Implementing the Measures: A Fund-of-Funds Perspective
  • Bond Fund Performance Measurement
  • Hedge Fund Performance
  • Recent Evidence on Managed Portfolio Performance
  • A Summary: The Evidence on Managed Portfolio Performance and Market Efficiency
  • Conclusions
  • References


Readership: Academic and professional, graduate students in finance and investment management.

124pp Pub. date: Nov 2007
ISBN 978-1-60198-082-3(pbk)
1-60198-082-5(pbk)
US$90 / £65


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Updated on 9 May 2008