Efficiently inefficient
Subtitle: how smart money invests and market prices are determined
By: Lasse Heje Pedersen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780691166193
Subjects: Securities; Prices; Capital market; Liquidity (Economics); Investment analysis; Portfolio management; Investments
Description: 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 certain trading strategies make money - and why they sometimes don't. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Active investment; title: Understanding hedge funds and other smart money; title: Evaluating trading strategies: Performance measures; title: Finding and backtesting strategies: Profiting in efficiently inefficient markets; title: Portfolio construction and risk management; title: Trading and financing a strategy: Market and funding liquidity; title: Part II: Equity strategies; title: Introduction to equity valuation and investing; title: Discretionary equity investing; title: Dedicated short bias; title: Quantitative equity investing; title: Part III: Asset allocation and macro strategies; title: Introduction to asset allocation: The returns to the major asset classes; title: Global macro investing; title: Managed futures: Trend-following investing interview with David Harding of Winton capital management; title: Part IV: Aritrage strategies; title: Introduction to arbitrage pricing and trading; title: Fixed-income arbitrage; title: Convertible bond arbitrage; title: Event-driven investments.