Active Index Investing: Maximizing Portfolio Performance and Minimizing Risk Through Globa…For over three decades, indexing has become increasingly accepted by both institutional and individual investors. Index benchmarks and investment products that track them have been a driving force in the transformation of investment strategy from art to science. Yet investors' understanding of the sophistication of this burgeoning field has lagged the growing use of index products.
Active Index Investing is the definitive guide to how indexes are constructed, how index-based portfolios are managed, and how the world's most sophisticated inves…
| Added: 09.05.2007 | ISBN: 0471257079 | Pages: 688 | Price: £ 34,65 | Lang.: English | |
Active Portfolio Management : A quantative approach for producing superior returns and sel…"Active Portfolio Management, 2nd Edition" is written and revised by two of today's top investment theorists. It outlines a highly rigorous approach for understanding and profiting from active investment. Featuring more than 100 pages of new material and research, it will instantly help professional investors transform market insights into profitable strategies, analyze and select superior money managers, evaluate investment performance, and more.
| Added: 09.05.2007 | ISBN: 0070248826 | Pages: 596 | Price: £ 42,49 | Lang.: English |  |
Asset Management and Investor Protection: An International Analysis (Economics & Finance…Asset management is a major industry playing an increasingly important role in economic activity around the world. Asset managers provide services to individuals, governments, public agencies, banks, pension funds, insurance companies, and charities, to name a few. Traditionally, asset management has been primarily associated with the 'stock market' economies of the UK and the USA, but, as this book shows, some of the most spectacular growth in activity of recent years has occurred
in Continental Europe.
| Added: 09.05.2007 | ISBN: 0199261938 | Pages: 304 | Price: £ 24,00 | Lang.: English | |
Asset Management Standards: Corporate Governance for Asset Management (Finance and Capital…Asset management standards are crucial for building trust between investors and capital market experts. The issue of corporate governance has been thrown into the spotlight by the disastrous collapse of Enron and the implications for the industry. The proposed standards are relevant for the entire fund industry, regulators, providers of pension plans and portfolio managers. Produced in association with the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies, this book aims to provide a well-founded basis for development of the content of asset …
| Added: 04.05.2007 | ISBN: 1403904499 | Pages: 256 | Price: £ 118,75 | Lang.: English | |
Financial Modeling of the Equity Market: From CAPM to Cointegration (Frank J. Fabozzi Seri… An inside look at modern approaches to modeling equity portfolios
Financial Modeling of the Equity Market is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to modeling equity portfolios. The book is intended for a wide range of quantitative analysts, practitioners, and students of finance. Without sacrificing mathematical rigor, it presents arguments in a concise and clear style with a wealth of real-world examples and practical simulations. This book presents all the major approaches to single-period return analysis, including modeling, estimation…
| Added: 05.05.2007 | ISBN: 0471699004 | Pages: 651 | Price: £ 34,00 | Lang.: English |  |
Investment Analysis and Portfolio ManagementWritten by a widely respected author team, this investments text takes an empirical approach to explaining current, real-world practice. Providing the most comprehensive coverage available, the text emphasises investment alternatives and teaches students how to analyse these choices and manage their portfolio. Like previous editions, the sixth edition includes excellent coverage of portfolio theory, capital market theory, security analysis, and international investments. Features new to this edition include expanded coverage of ethics and inter…
| Added: 09.05.2007 | ISBN: 0324405898 | Pages: 1100 | Price: £ 42,74 | Lang.: English | |
Managing Concentrated Stock Wealth: An Adviser's Guide to Building Customised SolutionsAn old adage cautions against carrying all of your eggs in a single basket. Yet many investors maintain a significant portion of their wealth in one stock, as a result of executive compensation packages, stock inheritances, IPOs, or corporate buyouts, leaving their portfolio in a dangerous position. Tim Kochis, a recognized leader in financial planning, has compiled more than fifteen strategies for managing concentrated stock wealth. The book explores the key barriers to addressing concentration risk-securities law, taxes, psychological resista…
| Added: 05.05.2007 | ISBN: 1576601773 | Pages: 256 | Price: £ 52,25 | Lang.: English | |
Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting (3rd ed)Building on the solid foundation of the first two bestselling editions, this significantly extended third edition updates previous content and incorporates three new chapters. Expanding on the comprehensive treatment of alternative portfolio construction techniques and discussing the area of risk budgeting from an asset management perspective, you are given a critical review of a range of portfolio techniques.
This revised third edition provides you with:
- key concepts and methods to implement quantitatively-driven portfolio construction;…
| Added: 04.05.2007 | ISBN: 1904339697 | Pages: 300 | Price: £ 67,99 | Lang.: English | |