1. Introduction -- 2. The impact of index design on asset management.-3. Pros and cons of Active management -- 4. Searching for market drivers: Factor investing -- 5. Hybrids increasingly blurring active/passive line -- 6. The need for a change: Sustainable finance -- 7. The next challenge: ESG...

This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory they should not? - How do investors deal with such...