'This new edition of Active Portfolio Management continues the standard of excellence established in the first edition, with new and clear insights to help investment professionals.' Jacques, Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Martingale Asset Management. ' Active Portfolio Management offers investors an opportunity to better understand the balance between mana 'This new edition of Active Portfolio Management continues the standard of excellence established in the first edition, with new and clear insights to help investment professionals.' Jacques, Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Martingale Asset Management. ' Active Portfolio Management offers investors an opportunity to better understand the balance between manager skill and portfolio risk. Both fundamental and quantitative investment managers will benefit from studying this updated edition by Grinold and Kahn.' -Scott Stewart, Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Select Equity (R) Discipline Co-Manager, Fidelity Freedom (R) Funds.
'This Second edition will not remain on the shelf, but will be continually referenced by both novice and expert. There is a substantial expansion in both depth and breadth on the original. It clearly and concisely explains all aspects of the foundations and the latest thinking in active portfolio management.'
Remole, Managing Director, Head of Global Structured Equity, Credit Suisse Asset Management. Mathematically rigorous and meticulously organized, Active Portfolio Management broke new ground when it first became available to investment managers in 1994. By outlining an innovative process to uncover raw signals of asset returns, develop them into refined forecasts, then use those forecasts to construct portfolios of exceptional return and minimal risk, i.e., portfolios that consistently beat the market, this hallmark book helped thousands of investment managers. Active Portfolio Management, Second Edition, now sets the bar even higher. Like its predecessor, this volume details how to apply economics, econometrics, and operations research to solving practical investment problems, and uncovering superior profit opportunities.
It outlines an active management framework that begins with a benchmark portfolio, then defines exceptional returns as they relate to that benchmark. Beyond the comprehensive treatment of the active management process covered previously, this new edition expands to cover asset allocation, long/short investing, information horizons, and other topics relevant today. It revisits a number of discussions from the first edition, shedding new light on some of today's most pressing issues, including risk, dispersion, market impact, and performance analysis, while providing empirical evidence where appropriate. The result is an updated, comprehensive set of strategic concepts and rules of thumb for guiding the process of-and increasing the profits from-active investment management. If you're an investing professional, you should already know about this book, whether you use it or not.
It's a highly quantitative read that will make your undergraduate math courses valuable, literally. It may not make you rich, and it may not make the people you invest for rich, but you will at least understand why or why not after understanding the math. If you're interested in how indexes (benchmarks) are constructed for specific purposes, this is the book. If you're interested in serious m If you're an investing professional, you should already know about this book, whether you use it or not. It's a highly quantitative read that will make your undergraduate math courses valuable, literally. It may not make you rich, and it may not make the people you invest for rich, but you will at least understand why or why not after understanding the math. If you're interested in how indexes (benchmarks) are constructed for specific purposes, this is the book.
If you're interested in serious measures of investment skill and performance, ditto. Do be prepared for a lot of linear algebra and calculus and probability theory, though. I read this book because it was recommended for Coursera course: Computational Investment I. It was my first book on Portfolio Management, although it has very good ratings on goodreads and amazon, I surprisingly found this book rather obscure and not-easy-to-follow. The book tries to do a mathematical approach to portfolio management, but mathematical formulas come out of the blue, with no previous explanation or justification. The level of math required is not a big deal, it is just that formul I read this book because it was recommended for Coursera course: Computational Investment I. It was my first book on Portfolio Management, although it has very good ratings on goodreads and amazon, I surprisingly found this book rather obscure and not-easy-to-follow.
The book tries to do a mathematical approach to portfolio management, but mathematical formulas come out of the blue, with no previous explanation or justification. The level of math required is not a big deal, it is just that formulas are completely unexplained. Since the book is so well rated by many other readers, I guess this is not an introductory course for first-timers. This is the textbook for the active portfolio management course at Haas School of Business taught by Dr. Ronald Kahn, the author of the book. It is more like an encyclopedia, and not an easy reading for business people: it is definitely not rhetoric. However it does provide everything you need to know to construct, backtest, and evaluate your portfolio.
I would keep it on my shelf for future reference. Not recommended for fun read, but a complete must-have for active portfolio managers' knowledg This is the textbook for the active portfolio management course at Haas School of Business taught by Dr. Ronald Kahn, the author of the book. It is more like an encyclopedia, and not an easy reading for business people: it is definitely not rhetoric.
However it does provide everything you need to know to construct, backtest, and evaluate your portfolio. I would keep it on my shelf for future reference. Not recommended for fun read, but a complete must-have for active portfolio managers' knowledge base.
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