A study comparing the performance of equal-, value-, and price-weighted portfolios of stocks in the major US equity indices over the last four decades has won a prestigious award. Raman Uppal, Member of EDHEC-Risk Institute and Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School, along with co-authors Grigory Vilkov and Yuliya Plyakha, both of Goethe University
The asset allocation of corporate pension plans should be driven by corporate finance not asset management according to Bernd Scherer, affiliate professor of finance at EDHEC Business School, and instructor of an upcoming seminar on portfolio construction and risk budgeting in Singapore.
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