Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One,
Edition 2 Asset Pricing and ModelsEditors: By Russ Wermers, Brian Singer and Bernd R. Fischer
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This Second Edition of Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One: Asset Pricing and Models, presents an updated, comprehensive exploration of portfolio performance evaluation. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), this volume of the second edition adds four new chapters and updated content throughout in its practical approach to measuring manager skills and using recent statistical techniques to solve investment problems. Added are new factor models, including the newly developed q-factor model, new examples, and new work on qualitative considerations that can be used in identifying skilled fund managers. This highly detailed new edition combines academic rigor with insights and guidance for real-world applications of diverse approaches to identifying skilled professional portfolio managers
Key Features
• Adds four new chapters; every other chapter has been expanded and updated• Adds detailed derivations of the mathematics of mean-variance asset pricing, making the book suitable for an investments course at the Ph.D., Master’s, and (advanced) undergraduate levels
• Presents new material for target date funds as well as a comprehensive survey of fund ratings services
• A solutions manual for all chapter-end problems is available from the author: [email protected]
About the author
By Russ Wermers, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Brian Singer, Brian Singer, CFA, is the co-CEO of Wealth Horizons Inc and Bernd R. Fischer, Managing Director of IDS GmbH, Analysis and Reporting Services (a subsidiary of Allianz SE), Frankfurt, Germany
2. Returns-Based Performance Evaluation Models
3. Returns-Based Performance Measures
4. Portfolio-Holdings Based Performance Evaluation
5. Combining Portfolio-Holdings-Based and Returns-Based Performance Evaluation (and the "Return Gap")
6. Performance Evaluation of Non-Normal Portfolios
7. Fund Manager Selection Using Macroeconomic Information
8. Multiple Fund Performance Evaluation: The False Discovery Rate Approach
9. Active Management in Mostly Efficient Markets: A Survey of the Academic Literature
10. Performance Evaluation of Professional Ratings Services
11. Performance Evaluation of Target-Date Funds
12. Qualitative Considerations in Performance Evaluation
13. Exchange-Traded Funds
9780123744487; 9780123756626; 9780123745071; 9780123918802
Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals worldwide working in the management of diverse types of financial funds