Baker / Filbeck Alternative Investments

Instruments, Performance, Benchmarks and Strategies
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-28258-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 656 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Robert W. Kolb Series

A comprehensive guide to alternative investments that revealstoday's latest research and strategies
Historically low interest rates and bear markets in world stockmarkets have generated intense interest in alternative investments.With returns in traditional investment vehicles relatively low,many professional investors view alternative investments as a meansof meeting their return objectives. Alternative Investments:Instruments, Performance, Benchmarks, and Strategies, can putyou in a better position to achieve this difficult goal.
Part of the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance, AlternativeInvestments provides an in-depth discussion of the historicperformance, benchmarks, and strategies of every major alternativeinvestment market. With contributions from professionals andacademics around the world, it offers valuable insights on thelatest trends, research, and thinking in each major area. Empiricalevidence about each type of alternative investment is featured,with research presented in a straightforward manner.
* Examines a variety of major alternative asset classes, fromreal estate, private equity, and commodities to managed futures,hedge funds, and distressed securities
* Provides detailed insights on the latest research andstrategies, and offers a thorough explanation of historicalperformance, benchmarks, and other critical information
* Blends knowledge from the conceptual world of scholars with thepragmatic view of practitioners in this field
Alternative investments provide a means of diversification, riskcontrol, and return enhancement and, as such, are attractive tomany professional investors. If you're looking for an effective wayto hone your skills in this dynamic area of finance, look nofurther than this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, H. Kent

Filbeck, Greg

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
PART I Introduction 1
1 Alternative Investments: An Overview 3
H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck
2 The Role of Alternative Investments in Strategic AssetAllocation 19
Douglas Cumming, Lars Helge Haß, and DenisSchweizer
3 Trends in Alternative Investments 37
Erik Benrud
4 Alternative Investments and Due Diligence 53
Gökhan Afyonoglu
PART II Real Estate 77
5 REITs and the Private Real Estate Market 79
Shaun A. Bond and Qingqing Chang
6 Commercial Real Estate 99
Peter Chinloy
7 Real Estate Investment Trusts 119
Brad Case
8 Mortgaged-Backed Securities 143
Eric J. Higgins
9 Mezzanine Debt and Preferred Equity in Real Estate 163
Andrew R. Berman
10 Real Estate Appraisal and Valuation 185
Jeffrey D. Fisher and Demetrios Louziotis, Jr.
11 Performance of Real Estate Portfolios 213
David Geltner
PART III Private Equity 239
12 Venture Capital 241
Tom Vanacker and Sophie Manigart
13 Mezzanine Capital 263
Sameer Jain and Phillip Myburgh
14 Buyout Funds 281
Christian Rauch and Mark Wahrenburg
15 Distressed Debt Investing 303
Michelle M. Harner, Paul E. Harner, Catherine M. Martin, andAaron M. Singer
16 Performance of Private Equity 323
Christoph Kaserer and Rüdiger Stucke
17 Private Equity: Risk and Return Profile 345
Axel Buchner, Arif Khurshed, and Abdulkadir Mohamed
PART IV Commodities and Managed Futures 363
18 Investing in Commodities 365
Claudio Boido
19 Performance of Commodities 381
Andrew Clark
20 Commodity Futures and Strategic Asset Allocation 399
Yongyang Su, Marco C. K. Lau, and Frankie Chau
21 Managed Futures:Markets, Investment Characteristics, and Rolein a Portfolio 419
Davide Accomazzo
22 An Overview of Managed Futures' Performance: 1983 toPost-2008 Credit Crisis 437
Kai-Hong Tee
PART V Hedge Funds 453
23 Investing in Hedge Funds 455
Hunter M. Holzhauer
24 Performance of Hedge Funds 475
Dianna Preece
25 Hedge Funds and Risk Management 495
Theodore Syriopoulos
26 Hedge Funds and the Financial Crisis 521
Jing-Zhi Huang and Ying Wang
27 Hedge Funds: Replication and Nonlinearities 541
Mikhail Tupitsyn and Paul Lajbcygier
28 Fund-of-Funds: A Tale of Two Fees 567
Kartik Patel
Answers to Discussion Questions 587
Index 619

Über Autor(innen)

H. KENT BAKER, PhD, CFA, CMA, is University Professor ofFinance at the Kogod School of Business, American University inWashington, D.C. As one of the most prolific finance academics, heis the author or editor of 18 books, and more than 150 refereedarticles in such publications as the Journal of Finance, Journalof Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management,Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management,and Harvard Business Review. He has consulting and trainingexperience with more than 100 organizations. Professor Bakerreceived a BSBA from Georgetown University; MEd, MBA, and DBAdegrees from the University of Maryland; and an MA, MS, and twoPhDs from American University. He also holds CFA and CMAdesignations.
GREG FILBECK holds the Samuel P. Black III Professor ofInsurance and Risk Management at Penn State Erie, The BehrendSchool, and serves as Program Chair for Finance. He previouslyserved as senior vice-president at Kaplan Schweser, and also heldacademic appointments at Miami University (Ohio) and the Universityof Toledo, where he served as the associate director of the Centerfor Family and Privately-Held Business. Professor Filbeck is acoauthor of Derivatives and Risk Management and editor ofCFA Basics: The Schweser Study Guide to Getting Started. Hehas published more than 70 refereed academic journal articles thathave appeared in the Financial Analysts Journal, FinancialReview, and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.Professor Filbeck serves on the editorial board of the Journalof Business and Economic Perspectives and as a board member forthe Southern Finance Association.