Asset Management and Institutional Investors

Ignazio Basile is Full Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at University of Brescia, Italy, Department of Economics and Management.Pierpaolo Ferrari is Full Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at University of Brescia, Department of Economics and Management, and Professor of Banking and Finance at SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

• Institutional Investors.- Collective Investment Vehicles and Other Asset Management Products.- Stages of Investment Management Policy.- Strategic Asset Allocation with Mean-Variance Optimisation.- Methods and Tools for Portfolio Selection.- Alternative Approaches to Traditional Mean-Variance Optimisation.- Integrating Sustainability Criteria into the Investment Process.- Performance Evaluation.- Returns-Based Style Analysis.- Performance Attribution.- Portfolio Diversification Policies: Alternative Asset Classes.- Hedge Funds.- Hedge  Fund Performance.- Private Equity.- Private Debt.- Real Assets.- Commodities.- Currency Overlay.