Today's top financial professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and puts everyone at risk. In Plight of the Fortune Tellers, Riccardo Rebonato...

In Investors and Markets, Nobel Prize-winning financial economist William Sharpe shows that investment professionals cannot make good portfolio choices unless they understand the determinants of asset prices. But until now asset-price analysis has largely been inaccessible to everyone except...

Vertiefendes Lehrwerk zur Finanzwirtschaft sowie Fortführung des Lehrbuches "Finanzwirtschaft für Anfänger" vom selben Verfasser. Aus dem Inhalt: Zeitbezogene Entscheidungen in der Investitionsplanung. Portfoliotheorie und moderne Kapitalmarkttheorie Die relevanten Kalkulationszinsfüße in...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Authorship -- Introduction -- EVALUATING INVESTMENT STYLE -- INDEX REPLICATION -- BENCHMARK CUSTOMIZATION -- MANAGING CREDIT PORTFOLIOS -- MANAGING MORTGAGE PORTFOLIOS -- MANAGING CENTRAL BANK RESERVES -- OPTIMAL RISK BUDGETING...

Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how...