Worldwide Asset and Liability Modeling

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction:
1. Asset and liability management systems for long-term investors: discussion of the issues John M. Mulvey and William T. Ziemba
Part II. Static Portfolio Analysis for Asset Allocation:
2. The importance of the asset allocation decision Chris R. Hensel, D. Don Ezra and John H. Ikliw
3. The effect of errors in means, variances, and covariances on optimal portfolio choice Vijay K. Chopra and William T. Ziemba
4. Making superior asset allocation decisions: a practitioner's guide Chris R. Hensel and Andrew L. Turner
Part III. Performance Measurement Models:
5. Attribution of performance and holdings Richard C. Grinold and Kelly A. Easton
6. National versus global influences on equity returns Stan Beckers, Gregory Connor and Ross Curds
7. A global stock and bond model Lucie Chaumeton, Gregory Connor and Ross Curds
Part IV. Dynamic Portfolio Models for Asset Allocation:
8. On timing the market: the empirical probability assessment approach with an inflation adapter Robert R. Grauer and Nils Hakansson
9. Multiperiod asset allocation with derivative assets David R. Carino and Andrew L. Turner
10. The use of Treasury bill futures in strategic asset allocation programs Michael J. Brennan and Edwardo S. Schwartz
Part V. Scenario Generation Procedures:
11. Barycentric approximation of stochastic interest rate processes Karl Frauendorfer and Michael Schürle
12. Postoptimality for scenario based financial planning models with an application to bond portfolio management Jitka Dupacova, Marida Bertocchi and Vittorio Moriggia
13. The Towers Perrin global capital market scenario generation system John M. Mulvey and A. Eric Thorlacius
Part VI. Currency Hedging and Modelling Techniques:
14. An algorithm for international portfolio selection and optimal currency hedging Markus Rudolf and Heinz Zimmerman
15. Optimal insurance asset allocation in a multi-currency environment John C. Sweeney, Steve Sonlin, Salvatore Correnti and Amy P. Williams
Part VII. Dynamic Portfolio Analysis with Assets and Liabilities:
16. Optimal investment strategies for university endowment funds Robert C. Merton
17. Optimal consumption-investment decisions allowing for bankruptcy: a survey Suresh Sethi
18. Solving stochastic programming models for asset/liability management using iterative disaggregation Pieter Klaassen
19. The CALM stochastic programming model for dynamic asset-liability management Georgio Consigli and Michael A. H. Dempster
20. A dynamic model for asset liability management for defined benefit pension funds Cees Dert
21. Asset and liability management under uncertainty for fixed income securities Stavros A. Zenios
Part VIII. Case Studies of Implemented Asset-liability Management Models:
22. Modelling and management of assets and liabilities of pension plans in The Netherlands Guus C. E. Boender, Paul van Aalst and Fred Heemskerk
23. Integrated asset-liability management: an implementation case study Martin Holmer
Part IV. Total Integrated Risk Management Models:
24. The Russell-Yasuda Kasai model: an asset/liability model for a Japanese insurance company using multistage stochastic programming David R. Carino, Terry Kent, David H. Myers, Celine Stacy, Michael Sylvanus, Andrew Turner, Kanji Watanabe and William T. Ziemba
25. The home account advisor: asset and liability management for individual investors Adam J. Berger and John M. Mulvey.

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