Assessing the potential benefits from investing in emerging markets

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British institutional investors have started to include the equities of emerging market countries in their portfolios as part of their diversification efforts. To evaluate the benefits from international diversification, a study is conducted to examine the return, standard deviation and mean return per unit of risk of two portfolios. Relationships between developed UK market returns and emerging market returns, and between the returns of different emerging markets are examined. The study's results are discussed.

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An Analysis of the Distribution of Extreme Share Returns in the UK from 1975 to 2000

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Analysis shows that the Generalized Logistic or the Generalized Extreme Value best fit extreme share return distribution. Further, the Generalized Logistic distribution is most applicable to extremes in United Kingdom data and can be used to assess portfolio risk.

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Evaluating performance of ethical and non-ethical funds: a matched pair analysis

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A study is conducted on 60 European funds to evaluate the performance of ethical and non-ethical funds. This study makes use of matched pair approach for fund evaluation.

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