Trading and Money Management in a Student-Managed Portfolio is a hands-on textbook for student-managed investment funds (SMIFs). The book presents the applied material that textbooks on portfolios and investments always overlook. Its focus on "how-to" questions summarizes the disciplines and skills necessary for trading. Covering equities, hedge funds and derivatives, and fixed income, it captures the breadth and detail necessary for developing and executing trading strategies.

Developed specifically for SMIF courses, the book features calculations, examples, and software...

Portfolio management is a tough business. Each day, managers face the challenges of an ever-changing and unforgiving market, where strategies and processes that worked yesterday may not work today, or tomorrow. The usual advice for improving portfolio performance -- refining your strategy, staying within your style, doing better research, trading more efficiently -- is important, but doesn't seem to affect outcomes sufficiently. This book, by an experienced advisor to institutional money managers, goes beyond conventional thinking to offer a new analytic framework that enables investors to...

A Comprehensive Review of the Liquid Alts Market and How '40 Act Products Can Enhance Client Portfolios

Liquid alternatives give investors access to hedge fund strategies with the benefits of '40 Act products: lower fees, higher liquidity, greater transparency, and improved tax efficiency.

Alts Democratized is a hands-on guide that offers financial advisors and individual investors the tools and analysis to enhance client portfolios using alternative mutual funds and ETFs. Well-grounded in research and replete with more than 100 exhibits of Lipper data, Alts...

Portfolio Construction and Analytics provides an up-to-date understanding of the analytic investment process for students and professionals alike. With complete and detailed coverage of portfolio analytics and modeling methods, this book is unique in its multi-disciplinary approach. Investment analytics involves the input of a variety of areas, and this guide provides the perspective of data management, modeling, software resources, and investment strategy to give you a truly comprehensive understanding of how...

Investing in index funds is a proven way to grow your earnings into lifelong financial security.

Learn this widely regarded, easy to implement index fund investing approach. You will (likely) beat 60 percent to 70 percent of active mutual fund managers investing with this index fund approach, and this Nobel Prize winning theory is easy to set up and manage.

This is not a get rich scheme, but a practical investing approach anyone can implement, follow and administer for the long haul.

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Winning at Active Management conducts an in-depth examination of crucial issues facing the investment management industry, and will be a valuable resource for asset managers, institutional consultants, managers of pension and endowment funds, and advisers to individual investors. Bill Priest, Steve Bleiberg and Mike Welhoelter all experienced investment professionals, consider the challenges of managing portfolios through complex markets, as well as managing the cultural and technological complexities of the investment business.

The book's initial section highlights the...

Despite the accepted fact that a substantial part of the risk and return of any portfolio comes from asset allocation, we find today that the majority of investment professionals worldwide are focused on security selection. Multi-Asset Investing: A Practitioner's Framework questions this basic structure of the investment process and investment industry.

• Who says we have to separate alpha and beta?
• Are the traditional definitions for risk and risk premium relevant in a multi-asset class world?
• Do portfolios cater for the 'real risks' in their investment...

Solow advocates a different approach called Tactical Asset Allocation,...

Solow advocates a different approach called Tactical Asset Allocation,...

After the warm reception of Essays in Positive Investment Management, the author has published a second, expanded edition. It contains, in particular, discussion of the notion of liquidity as the missing element in modern portfolio theory, together with changes in macro-financial regime as key factors for investment strategies. Savings glut, QE glut, and secular stagnation are lasting features that bring fresh challenges.

Few people have better insight into investment management than Pascal...