Scholars of economics and finance summarize the diverse financial developments in Asia that are of interest to both practitioners and academics. This second volume focuses on real estate investment trusts (REITs), which are attracting a lot of attention because of the low interest rate; the active participation of high frequency traders, algorithm trading, and trading in Exchange Traded Funds; and fund management, driven mainly by the significant new wealth creation. The topics include home bias in Asian REIT portfolio investment strategies, high-frequency trading on Asian exchanges, the effectiveness of technical trading models in Asian equity markets around the financial crisis, evaluating mutual fund growth and performance in Asia, and tournament behavior in Asian managed funds. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)