During recent turbulent years, investors became increasingly aware of the risk implied in their equity portfolios. Looking at the European equity market, it can be observed that, especially since 2008...

Successful investing has always centred around companies that demonstrate superior profitability over time. Today’s profitable companies have a tendency to continue being profitable tomorrow as well.

Investors have been showing a strong interest in certain themes like dividends and low volatility. The purpose of this document is to investigate the possibility of enhancing the historical performanc...

Advanced index concepts which try to optimize the risk/return profile and protect investors from losses have recently gained popularity. As a new approach the so-called target risk or risk control str...

In phases of market uncertainty, the daily highs and lows on the global stock exchanges are like a temperature curve. However, instead of measuring the situation on the markets according to their resp...