Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management An Active Approach to Portfolio Construction and Management

[Back Cover Copy]Finance and InvestingCapitalize on Today's Most Powerful Quantitative Methods to Construct and Manage a High-Performance Equity Portfolio!Praise for Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management"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"The book is very comprehensive in its coverage, detailed in its discussions and written from a practical perspective without sacrificing needed rigor." _DAVID BLITZER, Managing Director and Chairman, Standard & Poor's Index Committee"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.[Flap CopyQuantitative Equity Portfolio Managementis 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 Managementfeatures: A complete, easy-to-apply methodology for creating an equity portfolio that maximizes returns and minimizes risks The latest techniques for building optimization into a professionally managed portfolio An accompanying CD with a wide range of practical exercises and solutions using actual historical stock data An excellent melding of financial theory with real-world practice A wealth of down-to-earth financial examples and case studiesEach 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 studChincarini, Ludwig B. is the author of 'Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management An Active Approach to Portfolio Construction and Management', published 2006 under ISBN 9780071459396 and ISBN 0071459391.