Investment management : portfolio diversification, risk, and timing--fact and fiction / by Robert L. Hagin.

Annotation A new look at the important issue of investment management in the 21st century. Written for professional and private investors - as well as fiduciaries who rely on investment professionals - this book presents the content of an advanced investment-management course in an easy -- read, que...

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Main Author: Hagin, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2004.
Series:Wiley finance series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Investment Management
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • PART ONE Getting Started-Your Tool Kit
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2 What You Need to Know
  • CHAPTER 3 Information or Noise?
  • CHAPTER 4 Intuition
  • CHAPTER 5 Random Occurrences
  • CHAPTER 6 Law of Small Numbers
  • CHAPTER 7 Average Is Average
  • CHAPTER 8 Efficient Markets
  • CHAPTER 9 Random Walk
  • PART TWO Avoiding Torpedoes
  • CHAPTER 10 Perfect Earnings Forecasts
  • CHAPTER 11 Can Analysts Forecast Earnings Changes?
  • CHAPTER 12 Earnings Forecasts (and Torpedo Stocks)
  • CHAPTER 13 Using Earnings Forecasts.
  • CHAPTER 14 Size Effect
  • CHAPTER 15 Price-Earnings Effect
  • CHAPTER 16 The Magic of Growth
  • CHAPTER 17 Estimate Revisions
  • PART THREE Landmark Insights
  • CHAPTER 18 Nobel Laureate Markowitz
  • CHAPTER 19 Nobel Laureate Sharpe
  • CHAPTER 20 Compensation for Bearing Risks
  • CHAPTER 21 Daring to Be Different
  • CHAPTER 22 Law of Active Management
  • CHAPTER 23 Nobel Laureate Nash and Keynes
  • CHAPTER 24 Nobel Laureates Kahneman and Smith
  • CHAPTER 25 What Guides Investors
  • PART FOUR Dissecting Returns
  • CHAPTER 26 Luck or Skill?
  • CHAPTER 27 Measuring Investment Returns.
  • CHAPTER 28 Anatomy of the S & P 500
  • CHAPTER 29 Returns Earned by Investors
  • CHAPTER 30 Market Timing versus Asset Allocation
  • CHAPTER 31 Market Timing: Risk versus Reward
  • CHAPTER 32 Know the Odds Before You Play the Game
  • CHAPTER 33 Ten Best Days
  • PART FIVE Putting the Pieces Together
  • CHAPTER 34 Trading Costs
  • CHAPTER 35 Mutual Funds
  • CHAPTER 36 Advantages of ...
  • CHAPTER 37 Style Persistence
  • CHAPTER 38 Asset Allocation
  • CHAPTER 39 Beware of Taxes
  • CHAPTER 40 Beyond Active versus Passive
  • CHAPTER 41 Long-Term Capital Management
  • CHAPTER 42 To Win the Game.
  • CHAPTER 43 Highlights
  • Notes
  • Index.