INVESTMENTS
Securities Prices and
Performance
Investments, a two-volume
collection of articles in investment and portfolio management, spans the thirty-five-year
collaborative effort of two key figures in finance. Each of the nine sections begins with
an overview that introduces the main contributions of the pieces and traces the
development of the field. Each volume contains a foreword by Nobel laureate Harry
Markowitz.
This volume covers the
authors' work on analysts' expectations; performance evaluation of managed portfolios,
including commodity, stock, and bond portfolios; survivorship bias and performance
persistence; debt markets;and immunization and efficiency.
Edwin j. Eiton and Martin j.
Gruber are both Nomura Professors of Finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business,
New York University, and former Presidents of theAmerican Finance Association.
Contents
Foreword by Harry Markowitz
xi Preface xxi Sources xxiii
I Expectations and
Performance I
1 Improved Forecasting
through the Design of Homogeneous Groups
2 Professional Expectations:
Accuracy and Diagnosis of Errors with Mustafa Gultekin
3 Expectations and Share
Prices with Mustafa Gultekin
4 Expectational Data and
Japanese Stock Prices
5 Discrete Expectational Data
and Portfolio Performance with Seth Grossman
II The Performance of Managed
Portfolios
Theoretical
6 Differential Information
and Timing Ability
Empirical Commodities
Partnerships
7 Professionally Managed,
Publicly Traded Commodity Funds with Joel C. Rentzler Journal of Business
8 New Public Offerings,
Information, and Investor Rationality: The Case of Publidy Offered Commodity Funds with
Joel Rentzler
9 The Performance of Publicly
Offered Commodity Funds with Joel Rentzler
Mutual funds-Stock
Investments
10 Efficiency with Costly
Information: A Reinterpretation of Evidence from Managed Portfolios with Sanjiv Das and
Matthew Hiavka
11 Survivorship Bias and
Mutual Fund Performance with Christopher R. Blake
12 The Persistence of
Risk-Adjusted Mutual Fund Performance with Christopher R. Blake
Mutual funds-Bond
Investments
13 The Performance of Bond
Mutual Funds with Christopher R. Blake
14 Fundamental Economic
Variables, Expected Returns, and Bond Fund Performance with Christopher R. Blake
Debt Markets
15 Intra-Day Tests of the
Efficiency of the Treasury Bill FuturesMarket Joel Rentzler
16 Employing Financial
Futures to Increase the Return on Near CashTreasury Bill) Investments C. Rentzler
17 Bond Returns, Immunization
and the Return Generating Process Prafulla G.. Nabar
18The Structure of Spot Rates
and Immunization with Roni Michaely
425 pages