| Active Investment Management: Finding and Harnessing Investment Skill Contributor(s): Jackson, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0470858869 ISBN-13: 9780470858868 Publisher: Wiley OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: The investment management industry faces a number of well-publicised problems and difficulties. Charles Jackson shows how these all relate to the same underlying problem: that investors find investment skill very hard both to find and to put to work in a way that profits them. "Active Investment Management" starts with the fundamentals of what active management is and why investors find it desirable. It goes on to show how these fundamentals have given rise to the industry's problems, how these problems affect each other and how they can be resolved. Written by a leading authority in the field, this book is an invaluable tool for the practitioner. It is broken down into five sections covering the whole spectrum of active investment management: asset classes and products balancing risk and return active product selection the nature of skill the price of skill "Active Investment Management" concludes by projecting industry trends, and outlining the future developments in active investment management implied by those trends. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Investments & Securities - General - Business & Economics | Finance - General |
| Dewey: 332.6 |
| LCCN: 2003050190 |
| Series: Wiley Finance |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.9" W x 9.74" (1.24 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Active Investment Management looks at where active management has come from, where it is today, what problems it faces and where the answers to these questions are leading it. The book addresses the major issues concerning the key groups within the industry. Charles Jackson's wonderfully readable book will be essential reading for the practitioner and is broken down into five sections covering the whole spectrum of active investment management: * asset classes and products . |