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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hagin, Robert.

Series:

Wiley finance series.

[Wiley finance]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments.

Portfolio management.

Investment analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-to-read, question-and-answer format.Robert L. Hagin (Haverford, PA) is a 30-year investment management veteran who recently retired as Executive Director for Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

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

Notes:

Series title from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-297) and index.

ISBN:

9786610345519

9781280345517

1280345519

9780471483816

0471483818

OCLC:

54750948