“A must-have reference for any equity portfolio manager or MBA student, this book is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of equity portfolio management, from factor models to tax management.” ERIC ROSENFELD, Principal & Co-founder of JWM Partners
“This is an ambitious book that both develops the broad range of artillery employed in quantitative equity investment management and provides the reader with a host of relevant practical examples. The book excels in melding theory with practice.” STEPHEN A. ROSS, Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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“Making the transition from the walls of academia to Wall Street has traditionally been a difficult task…This book provides this link in a successful and engaging fashion, giving students of finance a road map for the application of financial theories in a real-world setting.” MARK HOLOWESKO, CEO and Founder, Templeton Capital Advisors
“This text provides an excellent synthesis of a broad range of quantitative portfolio management methods…In addition, there are a number of insightful innovations that extend and improve current techniques.” DAN DIBARTOLOMEO, President and Founder, Northfield Information Services, Inc.
Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management is a comprehensive guide to the entire process of constructing and managing a high-yield quantitative equity portfolio. This detailed handbook begins with the basic principles of quantitative active management and then clearly outlines how to build an equity portfolio using those powerful concepts.
Financial experts Ludwig Chincarini and Daehwan Kim provide clear explanations of topics ranging from basic models, factors and factor choice, and stock screening and ranking…to fundamental factor models, economic factor models, and forecasting factor premiums and exposures.
Readers will also find step-by-step coverage of portfolio weights… rebalancing and transaction costs…tax management…leverage…market neutral…Bayesian _…performance measurement and attribution…the back testing process…and portfolio performance.
Filled with proven investment strategies and tools for developing new ones, Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management features:
A wealth of down-to-earth financial examples and case studies
Each chapter of this all-in-one portfolio management resource contains an appendix with valuable figures, tables, equations, mathematical solutions, and formulas. In addition, the book as a whole has appendices covering a brief history of financial theory, fundamental models of stock returns, a basic review of mathematical and statistical concepts, an entertaining explanation and quantitative approach to the casino game of craps, and other on-target supplemental materials.
An essential reference for professional money managers and students taking advanced investment courses, Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management offers a full array of methods for effectively developing high-performance equity portfolios that deliver lucrative returns for clients.
About the Authors
Ludwig B. Chincarini, Ph.D., CFA, is a professor of finance at Georgetown University as well as a financial consultant to institutional investors. Previously, he was director of research at Rydex Global Advisors, the index mutual fund company. Prior to that, Dr. Chincarini was director of research at FOLIOfn, a brokerage firm that pioneered basket trading. He also worked at the Bank for International Settlements and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Daehwan Kim, Ph.D., is a professor of economics at the American University in Bulgaria. Previously, he was employed as a financial economist for FOLIOfn. Dr. Kim also worked as a financial journalist, writing regular columns on financial markets for business media in Asia. He also holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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The book on factor models.......2007-08-22
Should you buy this book if you already have Grinold and Kahn? Emphatically yes, if you are interested in factor models of equity returns: about 200 pages of CK are devoted to them, compared to a few in GK.
If not, I would still recommend the purchase, but expect CK's stay on your bookshelf to be brief - enough time to read through, and spot things not found in GK. (E.g., discussion of leverage and tax management).
If you have not read Grinold and Kahn, start with this one - it is more accessible, and Chincarini and Kim offer a steady flow of worked-out examples, plus a nice collection of end-of-chapter questions - but do graduate to the GK tome.
Alas, just as GK, CK is a book for MBAs: neither reflects state-of-the-art (state-of-the-art in late 1980s, perhaps?), and each one gets sloppy when more math is called for: GK sags in the part on information analysis, and CK in Chapter 14, 'Bayesian alpha'. Statistics? Just use OLS.
Finding good up-to-date reading on QEPM thus remains a challenge, but CK (as well as GK) is a worthwhile book to read in the beginning.
Excellent Book - Highly Recommend.......2007-01-25
This is a strong learning guide as well as a useful reference. The book takes the subject of portfolio management the next logical step after a fourth year finance course. The classic topics of undergrad finance are taken to a new level. For example, the book assumes the reader previously understands Mean variance optimization, the topics are Mean variance optimization with constraints and/or transaction costs. Also an excellent introduction to Factor models in context of forecasting security pricing. Highly recommend.
A practical entry-level quant equity portfolio management book.......2006-12-01
This is a very practical entry-level quant equity portfolio management book (more practical and easier than Grinold & Kahn's book). It's a good place to start if you are interested in building quant models to manage equity portfolios. The book started from the beginning (e.g., how to pick factors), to how to build models to forecast returns, risk, and how to run optimization. This book didn't get into enough details about econometrics, database management, optimization, and programming, which are all essential to build a robust quant model. The authors mentioned pooled time-series cross-sectional econometric models, but didn't go beyond the surface. Overall, it's a good introduction book, but could be better.
A very readable primer on quantiative equity portfolio management.......2006-09-07
In my opinion, this book should be on the bookshelf of every quantitative equity portfolio manager right next to his Grinold & Kahn. In addition to the basics, it covers a lot of the more practical aspects of quantitative euqity portfolio management compared to the Grinold & Kahn, but is not lacking any academic rigour. It is very readable and accessible for anyone with a professional finance background or interest.
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Quantitative equity portfolio management combines theories and advanced techniques from several disciplines, including financial economics, accounting, mathematics, and operational research. While many texts are devoted to these disciplines, few deal with quantitative equity investing in a systematic and mathematical framework that is suitable for quantitative investment students. Providing a solid foundation in the subject, Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management: Modern Techniques and Applications presents a self-contained overview and a detailed mathematical treatment of various topics. From the theoretical basis of behavior finance to recently developed techniques, the authors review quantitative investment strategies and factors that are commonly used in practice, including value, momentum, and quality, accompanied by their academic origins. They present advanced techniques and applications in return forecasting models, risk management, portfolio construction, and portfolio implementation that include examples such as optimal multi-factor models, contextual and nonlinear models, factor timing techniques, portfolio turnover control, Monte Carlo valuation of firm values, and optimal trading. In many cases, the text frames related problems in mathematical terms and illustrates the mathematical concepts and solutions with numerical and empirical examples. Ideal for students in computational and quantitative finance programs, Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management serves as a guide to combat many common modeling issues and provides a rich understanding of portfolio management using mathematical analysis.
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Two pioneers and innovators in the money management field present their choice of groundbreaking, peer-reviewed articles on subjects including portfolio engineering and long-short investment strategy. More than just a collection of classic review pieces, however, Equity Management provides new material to introduce, interpret, and integrate the pieces, with an introduction that provides an authoritative overview of the chapters. Important and innovative, it is destined to become the "Graham and Dodd" of quantitative equity investing.
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One good chapter, but slightly repetitive & not much new.......2003-10-10
Jacobs and Levy have assembled a body of work here centering on their stock picking techniques as well as their long-short portfolio construction techniques. Most of the chapters have their origins in various finance journals, though the articles themselves are not very heavy on mathematics. Overall, the book was interesting, though somewhat repititious. In retrospect I'd suggest that those familiar with long-short portfolios and the various market anomolies should just read chapter 2 about "Disentangling Equity Return Regularities" since that is where Jacobs & Levy's original work is outlined.
Chapter 2 focuses on the use of regression analysis to "disentangle" various stock market anomalies. The authors claim that simple rules such as "Buy low-P/E stocks" are appealing, but oversimplify the true source of stock returns. For example, low P/E stocks tend to have higher rates of return, as do small-capitalization stocks. But if a small capitalization stocks also tend to have low P/E's, then how much of their return is due to the low-P/E effect by itself, and how much is due to the small-capitalization effect by itself? Jacobs & Levy have done the analyses, and show which effects are genuine, and which effects are merely proxies for other effects. The effects that turn out to be the strongest when "disentangled" include low P/E, Earnings trend, Earnings Surprise, Residual Reversal, and Relative Strength.
The introductory chapters in the book make some interesting points. They argue that the stock market is not random, but then again it is also not simple. Although simple rules are appealing to humans, they oversimplify the complexity of the market. To gain an edge, one must use sophisticated, objective, multi-factor statistical computer models that capture the complex interactions in the market. Of course the authors are saying this to advocate the techniques they use, but nevertheless, they have some good points.
Finally, the second half of the book focuses on the construction of long-short portfolios, though there is not much fresh material here. They point out some of the logistical details of running a long-short portfolio, and give some examples. Also, they introduce the concept of "alpha-transport." That is, one can construct a long-short market neutral portfolio, then by buying buy an index (using SP500 futures, for example) one "transports" the gains from the long-short portfolio onto the gains/losses of the index position. Thus, if the stock picking for the long-short portfolio is done correctly, the total portfolio will beat the index picked. To me, this seemed like an obvious technique; I'm surprised they decided to focus on it and give it a fancy name ("alpha transport")
Overall, I found the book interesting, though somewhat repetitious. I was familiar with much of what was covered, however I did find that Chapter 2 was worth reading, since I wasn't familiar with Jacobs & Levy's work in detail.
Ultimately disappointing.......2001-04-23
As a critic once said of Henry James, Jacobs and Levy have chewed more than they bit off. There is (as another reviewer points out) no follow-up on how their factors have behaved in the decade or more since they did some of the pioneering work on factor models. Overall, the book has about 10% as much information useful to a practitioner as appears in Grinold & Kahn's authoritative text.
A collection of articles aimed at practitioners.......2000-06-23
This book is great for people who want an overview of the opportunities available in numerical evaluation of stocks. However to say that this is a book on quantitative techniques is probably not the mest description. There is extensive use of regression analysis but more hard-core 'quant' people will probabliy be disappointed. It is clear that the book is written by investment professionals focusing a lot on traditional evaluations parameters such as P/E, P/B etc. Interesting points include purification of return signals, and an extensive discussion of long-short techniques.
A Potent, Authoritative Guide to Successful Stock Selection.......2000-05-22
The most important thing that I (an individual mutual fund investor) came away with was an understanding of the reasons why actively managed mutual funds cannot consistently beat their underlying benchmarks if they take a "stock picking" approach. Since this is the approach taken by most mutual fund managers, it is not surprising that more than 50% (often much more than 50%) do not beat their benchmarks. I also found it interesting how with sufficient breath and depth, engineered portfolios offer higher return and lower risk than the S&P 500.
It is easy to see how "alpha transport", when properly used, can also help maximize returns while minimizing risk. However, I imagine there have been, more often than not, improper use of alpha transport which did just the opposite (minimize return and maximize risk). Obviously not included in the text is the "proper usage" or algorithms for "disentangling equity return regularities". I imagine the authors keep such information close to their chest and constantly update them as old algorithms become part of the efficient market.
The work provides a guide to modern methods of equity management, and for those interested in the state-of-the-art, I highly recommend this book.
Still Just a Collection of Journal Articles.......2000-04-26
The Good: It is a collection of some of the great papers by the authors over the years that have appeared in Journal of Portfolio Mgt., Journal of Investing and the Financial Analysts Journal. If you do any work in quant equity management you should know and have these papers. Buy the book and save time hunting down the papers.
The Bad: It is a collection of some of the great papers by the authors over the years that have appeared in Journal of Portfolio Mgt., Journal of Investing and the Financial Analysts Journal. If you do any work in quant equity management you know and have these papers. The introductions and "new" material that ties it all together is not worth the expense. What sort of got under my skin is that none of the work has been updated or brought current, even by using appendicies. Since some of their most interesting quant work was published 12 years ago we have no updates as to how the factors are doing. This would have been a great value to this reader.
Overall its a great body of work but nothing new.
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A look inside Twain's writing method.......2001-10-12
The main portion of the book is "Puddnhead Wilson", but Twain writes a fascinating intro to "Those Extraordinary Twins" to explain how he started writing one book and ended up with the other. The twins were originally conjoined (Siamese), and were the main characters. The side characters of Tom and Roxy developed into main characters in an entirely different story. what you end up with is a tragedy and a comedy, that occur around the same time, in the same town, with most of the same characters. Its amazing how much a few little twists change everything.
Product Description
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION! 2 stories in 1 volume. Binding tight w/no looseness; spine slightly cocked. Signatures tight; attractive sienna brown cloth binding w/gilt lettering on front & spine, & black decoration on front & spine. Frontispiece has B&W photo of Twain w/a FACSIMILE of his signature underneath. Interior pages feature delightful, uncredited, B&W sketches in margins, some labeled "Warren" and "FMS." (Sketch of wine bottle on pg. 312 appears flipped by publisher; "FMS" is backwards as is wine label.)
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