Active Portfolio Management

Contents

1 Introduction

Foundations

2 Consensus Expected Returns: The Capital Asset Pricing Model

3 Risk

4 Exceptional Return, Benchmarks, and Value Added

5 Residual Risk and Return: The Information Ratio

6 The Fundamental Law of Active Management

Expected Returns and Valuation

7 Expected Returns and Arbitrage Pricing Theory

8 Valuation in Theory

9 Valuation in Practice

Information Processing

10 Forecasting Basics

11 Advanced Forecasting

12 Information Analysis

13 The Information Horizon

Implementation

14 Portfolio Construction

15 Long/Short Investing

16 Transactions Costs, Turnover,  and Trading

17 Performance Analysis

18 Asset Allocation

19 Benchmark Timing

20 The Historical Record for Active Management

21 Open Questions

22 Summary

Now in its second edition, this is the bible for active equity portfolio managers. It covers everything from the theory of CAPM and Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) to security analysis and portfolio construction.

 

There are practical discussions of transaction costs and turnover. There are chapters on asset allocation, benchmarking and performance attribution. The book is extremely well written. It will appeal equally to portfolio managers at a mutual fund company or researchers in academia. While it is thoroughly practical, it cites relevant literature meticulously. The authors are advocates of active management, but their comparison of active vs. passive management is fair and intellectually rigorous. For anyone who works in, studies or simply wants to better understand investment management—whether you are a novice or a seasoned pro—you will find this to be an extraordinarily valuable book.

For related books, see sections:

Portfolio Management - Equities

Markets - Equities

Finance - Portfolio Theory

Math - Financial Math

 

 

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