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Foreword -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgments -- An investor?s guide to mutual funds -- Investing through mutual funds -- How mutual funds work -- Researching funds: the user guides -- Comparing mutual funds -- Appendix to Chapter 18: Gathering fund assets through retirement plans...

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Do Algorithms Dream About Artificial Alphas? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Replication or Reinvention -- 1.3 Reinvention with Machine Learning -- 1.4 A Matter of Trust -- 1.5 Economic Existentialism: A Grand Design or an Accident? -- 1.6...