Global Portfolio Diversification: Risk Management, Market Microstructure, and Implementation Issues

Global Portfolio Diversification synthesizes principal debates between analysts and academics. Covering subjects such as risk management, diversification and hedging strategies, deviations from market efficiency, and exchange rates, the book includes case studies, research, and commentary by the editors. Essayists include two past presidents of the American Finance Association and the current editors of the Journal of Finance and Economic Inquiry, as well as senior market regulators, financial managers, and representatives of international securities exchanges.

Key Features
* Deals with increased interest in the globalization of financial markets
* Covers managing and hedging risks
* Analyzes microstructures and analyses
* Shows how to implement portfolio diversification
* Prepared by an international team of leading financial academics and portfolio managers

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Contains papers from a conference on global portfolio diversification held at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, plus discussions between academics and practitioners, on subjects such as managing risk in international portfolios, foreign exchange risk, universal currency hedges, market microstructure and anomalies, the World Bank's global bond, and regulatory aspects. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)