Advanced Portfolio Management

A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors

By Giuseppe A. Paleologo | Publisher: Wiley

About the book

You have great investment ideas. If you turn them into highly profitable portfolios, this book is for you.

Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant’s Guide for Fundamental Investors is for fundamental equity analysts and portfolio managers, present, and future. Whatever stage you are at in your career, you have valuable investment ideas but always need knowledge to turn them into money. This book will introduce you to a framework for portfolio construction and risk management that is grounded in sound theory and tested by successful fundamental portfolio managers. The emphasis is on theory relevant to fundamental portfolio managers that works in practice, enabling you to convert ideas into a strategy portfolio that is both profitable and resilient. Intuition always comes first, and this book helps to lay out simple but effective \"rules of thumb\" that require little effort to implement and understand. At the same time, the book shows how to implement sophisticated techniques in order to meet the challenges a successful investor faces as his or her strategy grows in size and complexity. Advanced Portfolio Management also contains more advanced material and a quantitative appendix, which benefit quantitative researchers who are members of fundamental teams.

You will learn how to:

  • Separate stock-specific return drivers from the investment environment’s return drivers
  • Understand current investment themes
  • Size your cash positions based on
  • Your investment ideas
  • Understand your performance
  • Measure and decompose risk
  • Hedge the risk you don’t want
  • Use diversification to your advantage
  • Manage losses and control tail risk
  • Set your leverage

Author Giuseppe A. Paleologo has consulted, collaborated, taught, and drank strong wine with some of the best stock-pickers in the world; he has traded tens of billions of dollars hedging and optimizing their books and has helped them navigate through big drawdowns and even bigger recoveries.  Whether or not you have access to risk models or advanced mathematical background, you will benefit from the techniques and the insights contained in the book—and won't find them covered anywhere else.

Editions of Advanced Portfolio Management

Hardcover
ISBN 9781119789796
EBook
ISBN 9781119789819
EBook
ISBN 9781119789802

Read an Excerpt

You have great investment ideas. If you turn them into highly profitable portfolios, this book is for you.

Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant’s Guide for Fundamental Investors is for fundamental equity analysts and portfolio managers, present, and future. Whatever stage you are at in your career, you have valuable investment ideas but always need knowledge to turn them into money. This book will introduce you to a framework for portfolio construction and risk management that is grounded in sound theory and tested by successful fundamental portfolio managers. The emphasis is on theory relevant to fundamental portfolio managers that works in practice, enabling you to convert ideas into a strategy portfolio that is both profitable and resilient. Intuition always comes first, and this book helps to lay out simple but effective \"rules of thumb\" that require little effort to implement and understand. At the same time, the book shows how to implement sophisticated techniques in order to meet the challenges a successful investor faces as his or her strategy grows in size and complexity. Advanced Portfolio Management also contains more advanced material and a quantitative appendix, which benefit quantitative researchers who are members of fundamental teams.

You will learn how to:

  • Separate stock-specific return drivers from the investment environment’s return drivers
  • Understand current investment themes
  • Size your cash positions based on
  • Your investment ideas
  • Understand your performance
  • Measure and decompose risk
  • Hedge the risk you don’t want
  • Use diversification to your advantage
  • Manage losses and control tail risk
  • Set your leverage

Author Giuseppe A. Paleologo has consulted, collaborated, taught, and drank strong wine with some of the best stock-pickers in the world; he has traded tens of billions of dollars hedging and optimizing their books and has helped them navigate through big drawdowns and even bigger recoveries.  Whether or not you have access to risk models or advanced mathematical background, you will benefit from the techniques and the insights contained in the book—and won't find them covered anywhere else.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Advanced Portfolio Management about?

You have great investment ideas. If you turn them into highly profitable portfolios, this book is for you.

Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant’s Guide for Fundamental Investors is for fundamental equity analysts and portfolio managers, present, and future. Whatever stage you are at in your career, you have valuable investment ideas but always need knowledge to turn them into money. This book will introduce you to a framework for portfolio construction and risk management that is grounded in sound theory and tested by successful fundamental portfolio managers. The emphasis is on theory relevant to fundamental portfolio managers that works in practice, enabling you to convert ideas into a strategy portfolio that is both profitable and resilient. Intuition always comes first, and this book helps to lay out simple but effective \"rules of thumb\" that require little effort to implement and understand. At the same time, the book shows how to implement sophisticated techniques in order to meet the challenges a successful investor faces as his or her strategy grows in size and complexity. Advanced Portfolio Management also contains more advanced material and a quantitative appendix, which benefit quantitative researchers who are members of fundamental teams.

You will learn how to:

  • Separate stock-specific return drivers from the investment environment’s return drivers
  • Understand current investment themes
  • Size your cash positions based on
  • Your investment ideas
  • Understand your performance
  • Measure and decompose risk
  • Hedge the risk you don’t want
  • Use diversification to your advantage
  • Manage losses and control tail risk
  • Set your leverage

Author Giuseppe A. Paleologo has consulted, collaborated, taught, and drank strong wine with some of the best stock-pickers in the world; he has traded tens of billions of dollars hedging and optimizing their books and has helped them navigate through big drawdowns and even bigger recoveries.  Whether or not you have access to risk models or advanced mathematical background, you will benefit from the techniques and the insights contained in the book—and won't find them covered anywhere else.

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Advanced Portfolio Management?

Economics, Finance, Business and Management > Finance and accounting > Finance and the finance industry > Investment and securities

Where can I read a sample of Advanced Portfolio Management?

You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781119789796

Who is/are the Author/s of the book Advanced Portfolio Management?

Giuseppe A. Paleologo

Who is the Publisher of the book Advanced Portfolio Management?

Wiley

What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

Advanced Portfolio Management is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781119789796) and ebook(ISBN 9781119789819) and ebook(ISBN 9781119789802)

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