Understanding Investment Risk and Return

Edited by Greg Filbeck and Hunter Holzhauer

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This timely book explores investment risk and return as fundamental concepts that underpin financial decision-making and portfolio management. With contributions from scholars and practitioners, it combines conceptual frameworks with real-world applications, providing insights into the biases of irrational investors and how value is assessed in past performance and future projections.

Keywords: Risk-Adjusted Returns; Asset Classes; Financial Speculation; Behavioural Economics; Future Trends; Financial Investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035339716
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Understanding risk and return: an overview

Greg Filbeck and Hunter Holzhauer

Ch 2 Measuring and managing risk

Xudong Fu

Ch 3 Measuring and managing returns

Timothy A. Krause, Eric J. Robbins and Santina A. Haddad

Ch 4 Risk and return across inflationary regimes

Jarah D. Macfarlane

Ch 5 Risk-adjusted performance measurement

Pilar Grau-Carles

Ch 6 Prioritizing risks

Auke Plantinga

Ch 7 Understanding, applying, and critiquing different factor models

Rustin T. Yerkes

Ch 8 Digital assets (cryptocurrencies): part of a multi-asset portfolio

Pankaj Agrrawal and Doug Waggle

Ch 9 Speculating return and hedging risk with derivatives

Tian (Lori) Tang

Ch 10 Irrational investors

Xing Lu

Ch 11 Bulls, bears, bubbles, and bankruptcy: what have we learned?

Melissa Woodley

Ch 12 Future trends and models for managing risk and return

M. Tony Via

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