Introduction; Stephen Satchell -- 1) Performance of UK equity unit trusts; G Quigley and R A Sinquefield -- 2) A demystification of the Black–Litterman model: Managing quantitative and traditional portfolio construction; S Satchell and A Scowcroft -- 3) Tracking error: Ex ante versus ex post measures; S Hwang and S Satchell -- 4) Hedge Fund Survival Lifetimes; G N Gregoriou -- 5) Performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry; D Blake, B N Lehmann and A Timmermann -- 6) Do hedge funds add value to a passive portfolio? Correcting for non-normal returns and disappearing funds?; R Kourwenberg -- 7) The performance of value and momentum investment portfolios: Recent experience in the major European markets; R Bird and J Whitaker -- 8) Measuring investor sentiment in equity markets; A Bandopadhyaya and A L Schnader -- 9) Incorporating estimation errors into portfolio selection: Robust portfolio construction; S Ceria and R A Stubbs -- 10) Best-practice pension fund governance; G L Clark and R Urwin -- 11) Fundamental indexation in Europe; J Hemminiki and V Puttonen -- 12) Fundamental indexation: An active value strategy in disguise; D Blitz and L Swinkels -- 13) Emerging markets of South-East and Central Asia: Do they still offer a diversification benefit; C L Dunis and G Shannon -- 14) A robust optimization approach to pension fund management; G Iyengar and A K C Ma.