Searching for Alpha: The Quest for Exceptional Investment Performance
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"A provocative, witty, and meaningful book. Searching for Alpha is eminently readable. I highly recommend it!"-Dr. Martin Zweig, Zweig-DiMenna Associates
"Searching for Alpha is right on the mark and essential reading for anyone who wants to go beyond stock-picking and think about how to construct a total portfolio to fit their own risk and return objectives."-Bluford H. Putnam, President, CDC Investment Management Corp.
"Searching for Alpha is as instructional as it is entertaining. Ben Warwick's engaging examination of the modern investment process is succinct yet thorough, and cleverly interspersed with amusing facts, anecdotes, and historical insights . . . a charming book with lots of insight for both the novice and the professional."-Mark Kritzman, Managing Partner, Windham Capital Management, author, Puzzles of Finance
"Searching for Alpha is a wild and entertaining read that just happens to be an investment book. Along the way, you'll read about the Civil War, the origin of professional football, and even whaling-and by the time you're through, you'll know more about the investment game than you ever imagined."-Jeremy Pink, Editor-in-Chief, worldlyinvestor.com
"An erudite, well-written, and interesting book-with the added advantage of being right! The theory is state-of-the-art; the practice is very much current. Warwick has a special talent for historical analogy and storytelling."-Theodore R. Aronson, Partner, Aronson & Partners

Can anyone win the investing game? Considering the small number of mutual funds that produce market-beating returns, the task may seem nearly impossible. Even so, there remains an elite group of investment professionals who manage to produce market-beating returns, year after year. What is their edge?
Their edge is defined as alpha-which represents the portion of an investment fund's return that is generated solely by the skills of the portfolio manager. Investors, traders, and speculators alike have searched for a dependable source of alpha for as long as there have been financial markets.
How much of this search is art, and how much is science? The answer to this and other questions can be found within this provocative and highly entertaining book. Some of the topics covered in Searching for Alpha include:
* The three reasons why the mutual fund industry will always underperform the overall stock market
* How to profit from the idiosyncrasies of human behavior
* What the waxing-and-waning tendency of oil wells can tell us about the impact of technology on the investment management industry
* The profit potential of value stocks for the next decade


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471348221
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0471348228
  • Publisher Date: 22 May 2000
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Series Title: Wiley Investment
  • Weight: 442 gr


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