ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS AS A METHOD OF INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION: INVESTMENTS IN THE WINE COLLECTIONS

Ranking Independent Timber Investments by Alternative Investment Criteria

Portfolio Analysis of Investments in Risk Management

In many practical investment situations the amount of available memory on stock data is extremely huge. Thus many investors are attracted to base their decisions on the information "currently available in their minds" (see [1, 2]). In the present paper various risk measurement models having application in the investment management are discussed. First we explain the concept of mean variance eff...

The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put option writing strategy that offers monthly liquidity and complete transparency over its state-contingent payoffs. The contractual nature of the put options in the benchmark portfolio allows us to evaluate appr...

A framework for managing a portfolio of socially responsible investments

In this paper we present and illustrate using real-life data a framework for managing an investment portfolio in which the investment opportunities are described in terms of a set of attributes and part of this set is intended to capture the effects on society. Here we link with the emerging literature on SRI: socially responsible investment. Given the multi-attribute descriptions of the indivi...

Securitized Risk Instruments as Alternative Pension Fund Investments

Recent years have seen the introduction of a new class of derivative securities based on "exotic underlyings" such as natural catastrophes and weather. This paper analyzes the pros and cons of these new securities as assets for institutional investors. It is argued that the underlyings on which these derivatives trade have very low correlations with other factors that move the investment market...