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Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Selecting Superior Returns and Controlling Risk
 
 

Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Selecting Superior Returns and Controlling Risk [Kindle Edition]

Richard Grinold , Ronald Kahn
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"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."

-William E. 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 ® Discipline

Co-Manager, Fidelity Freedom ® 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."

-Eric N. 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.

Book Description

"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."

-William E. 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 ® Discipline

Co-Manager, Fidelity Freedom ® 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."

-Eric N. 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.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 9932 KB
  • Print Length: 596 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 2 edition (26 Oct 1999)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B005C3WULW
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #231,672 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Martul
Format:Hardcover
Those investors and financial analysts familiarized with BARRA results will find in this book an extended explanation about the assumptions, lines of thought, conclusions and possible applications over a wide range of concepts. In our profession it is usual to find papers applying concepts without offering a previous clear and non-ambiguous mathematical definition. This book covers such a fault of precision in our field, introducing gradually the outstanding concepts in literature and showing the multiple mutual relations. Main virtues are: Self-contained and broad-explanatory of the main topics regarding Active Asset Management. A must in order to introduce advanced portfolio analysis.

Just a couple of critics (for some people they might also be additional virtues): i) Most of results are obtained using basic matricial algebra and linear programming, so more powerful mathematical tools would lead to more general and forward-looking results (surprisingly, no stochastic calculus in sight, and lack of serious time series treatment!). ii) Some people reproducing step by step every analytical result will discover that, despite the final result is basically correct, some interim results might be incorrect (please contact me for several examples and a list of errata).

Specially if you are interested in using the results and concepts, and not so much in the algebraic derivation, this is your new optimal Benchmark.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A strange book, it is about a mathematical model for portfolio management. In fact it is the standard text for statistical arbitrage hedge funds as well. So it is surprising to find the maths is all in 'technical appendices' which appears to have been written to a different author from the more economics focussed main text. This is pretty confusing, and it doesn't help that they change notation every chapter (although I have to admit I found this a useful prod to check one's understanding). The maths is certainly not abstruse, some matrix algebra, some statistics. The models they present are pretty humdrum these days (everything linear and Gaussian) but it seems nobody else has spelt out the basics so completely and hence this badly written book is on everyone's shelves as the standard reference.
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59 of 72 people found the following review helpful
Clear, efficient and useful 7 May 2000
By Thierry Lunati - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
The book carefully develops the concepts of Portfolio Theory. Topics include: risk aversion, the Capital Market Line, the Markowitz Portfolio Selection Model, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, beta, market equilibrium, etc. Subsequent chapters cover fixed income securities, security analysis, derivatives and active portfolio management.

The book is extremely detailed and very well written. It covers more than the basics. It includes a variety of advanced theories and describes recent academic research.

A excellent choice !

33 of 40 people found the following review helpful
This is the seminal text for Quantitative Finance 11 Nov 2004
By M. L. Gill - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
If you work for one of the top alpha quant shops (Barclays, Goldman, etc.), this text is a the proverbial must read. These are the guys that essentially invented quantitative finance in its modern form, building upon the [only somewhat applicable] concepts of Sharpe and Rosenberg and demonstrating how they can be harnassed to drive alpha. Anybody who has given this text a poor review obviously doesn't work in quantitative finance (chances are they're merely stock-pickers). If you want to understand how to drive alpha and beat the market, this text goes a lot further than explaining the simple concepts of information ratio and tracking error; instead, this book touches on the beauty of multi-factor models and covariance risk management.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
One to add to your reading list 30 Jun 2007
By 1000Books - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
I know many have this book and have never read it. Others read this book but never really understand it. However, if you can read it and understand it, it can offer a powerful tool for how to allocate capital. It actually is the basis for most indexing and quantitative methodologies. When applied to fundemental approaches to investment it can be quite powerful.

Sadly, though not enough money managers embrace what this book is trying to say with regards to risk and return.
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