Asset allocation : balancing financial risk / Roger C. Gibson, with Christopher J. Sidoni [book]

Includes index

The importance of asset allocation -- U.S. capital market investment performance: a historical review -- Comparative relationships among U.S. capital market investments alternatives -- Dispersion and the limits of prediction -- Market timing -- Time horizon -- A model for determining broad portfolio balance -- Diversification : the third dimension -- Expanding the efficient frontier -- The rewards of multiple-asset-class investing -- Portfolio optimization -- Know your client -- Managing client expectations -- Portfolio management -- Resolving problems encountered during implementation -- The global financial crisis of 2008