Abstract The secretive nature, opacity, and complexity of investment strategies employed by active asset managers lead to information asymmetry and to the agency problem. Under imperfect information, ex ante identification of skilled investment managers is difficult (adverse selection). Moreover, personal preferences may lead to investment decisions that play to the advantage of asset managers — who control the actions determining the distribution of investment outcomes — at the expense of asset owners’ objectives (moral hazard). Analysing investment actions that are prone to agency problems may aid in effectively gauging managerial skill and risk preferences. This dissertation, comprising three essays, offers empirical evaluation of the use...
This dissertation focuses on option-based risk management from corporate finance and investment pers...
The thesis consists of three studies that address issues surrounding the scale-return relationship, ...
What do asset managers believe regarding the financial performance of Environmental, Social, and Gov...
An exchange traded fund (ETF) is a financial instrument that tracks some predetermined index. Since ...
Abstract Recent years have witnessed growing pessimism from investment practitioners regarding hedg...
Abstract This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the literature on hedge fund performance in thr...
Non-listed real estate fund business has faced intense development during the past decade. So far t...
The conflicts of interest between owners and managers have spurred a great deal of research on share...
This thesis investigates the dynamically optimal risk-taking by a loss-averse hedge fund manager who...
Financial theory offers several rationales for financial risk management. Hedging enables firms to ...
Derivatives are widely utilized in corporate level risk management in order to hedge market risks, s...
We investigate a hedge fund manager's risk-taking profile and evaluate how fund composition and mult...
Asset Liability Management is a current topic where accountability of asset management is of high im...
The paper analyzes the e¤ects of career concerns of portfolio managers on their incentives to trade ...
Investing in mutual funds has become more popular than ever and the amount of money invested in mutu...
This dissertation focuses on option-based risk management from corporate finance and investment pers...
The thesis consists of three studies that address issues surrounding the scale-return relationship, ...
What do asset managers believe regarding the financial performance of Environmental, Social, and Gov...
An exchange traded fund (ETF) is a financial instrument that tracks some predetermined index. Since ...
Abstract Recent years have witnessed growing pessimism from investment practitioners regarding hedg...
Abstract This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the literature on hedge fund performance in thr...
Non-listed real estate fund business has faced intense development during the past decade. So far t...
The conflicts of interest between owners and managers have spurred a great deal of research on share...
This thesis investigates the dynamically optimal risk-taking by a loss-averse hedge fund manager who...
Financial theory offers several rationales for financial risk management. Hedging enables firms to ...
Derivatives are widely utilized in corporate level risk management in order to hedge market risks, s...
We investigate a hedge fund manager's risk-taking profile and evaluate how fund composition and mult...
Asset Liability Management is a current topic where accountability of asset management is of high im...
The paper analyzes the e¤ects of career concerns of portfolio managers on their incentives to trade ...
Investing in mutual funds has become more popular than ever and the amount of money invested in mutu...
This dissertation focuses on option-based risk management from corporate finance and investment pers...
The thesis consists of three studies that address issues surrounding the scale-return relationship, ...
What do asset managers believe regarding the financial performance of Environmental, Social, and Gov...