Portfolio management techniques

Applying portfolio management techniques to customer segmentation so knowledge can be used to increase share of business with selected customers... 

Portfolio management concepts have been an accepted component of the financial services realm for decades, and the need to diversify risk continues to be an effective organizing principle for many financial instruments and analytic techniques. Risk assessment is also a key component in the pharmaceutical world, where as few as 1 in 5000 laboratory-tested compounds ever makes it to the market. As such, the pipeline portfolio is a critical indicator of the future of a pharmaceutical firm, and the process of analyzing and managing it effectively is of vital strategic importance. 

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For scientists with a basic chemical education, the contributors provide, in a simple and understandable but still comprehensive manner, descriptions of the most important methods used in routine molecular biology and immunology and give selected examples of important applications of these techniques in food analysis. The book is aimed at students and professional food chemists as well as quality assurance managers and can serve as guidance in understanding the techniques as well as implementing them in a laboratory to expand and complete a service portfolio. 

The obvious answer to heightened complexity and uncertainty lies in utilizing financial engineering techniques to manage asset portfolios. This chapter reviews the current state of the art from a practitioner s perspective. The prime focus is on mean-variance optimization techniques, which remain the principal application tool. The key message is that while the methods employed by today s specialists are not especially onerous mathematically or computationally, there are major issues in problem formulation and structure. It is in this arena that imagination and inventiveness take center stage. 

This chapter has presented a brief introduction to asset management, focusing on primary applications. The basic analytical tool for portfolio analysis has been and remains MV analysis and variants of the technique. Mean-variance an ysis is intellectuedly deep, has an intuitive theoretical foundation, and is mathematically efficient. Virtutilly all asset-management problems are solved using the approach or modified versions of it. 

In earlier chapters, we reviewed the basic features of index-linked bonds and their main uses. We also discussed the techniques used to measure the yield on these bonds. The largest investors in indexed bonds are long-dated institutions such as pension fund managers, who use them to match long-dated liabilities that are also index linked for example, a pension contract that has payments linked to the inflation index. It is common though for investors to hold a mixture of indexed and conventional bonds in their overall portfolio. 

For securitisations backed by a limited number of properties, the statistical techniques that can be used in large portfolio transactions become less appropriate, and it is important to undertake more detailed due diligence of the real estate asset or assets and the property company s management. 

In this chapter, we examine several techniques used in the market for estimating relative risk in a portfolio, their assumptions, advantages and pitfalls. We also look at what we believe are the more accurate procedures for understanding and estimating this risk, and the tools that allow managers to do so quickly and easily. 

Every investor managing portfolios has a critical decision to make—what kind of optimization technique (if any) should be used Several major methods are available and most of them have a quantitative grotuid. Some of them are extracted from the... 

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