Book Reviews
In Keeping Your Dividend Edge, Todd Wenning, CFA, describes the new market environment that necessitates a revised approach for selecting and monitoring dividend-paying stocks.
This multi-author volume ranges well beyond the topic evoked by its title — namely, behavioral finance.
The authors have compiled a highly readable, entertaining, and well-informed collection of articles on the history and development of the quantitative techniques of stock selection.
The authors challenge the investment profession to rethink the way it views both clients and employees.
Sloane Ortel and Thomas Brigandi's examination of the seven asset owner organizations shaping the market and a review of Richard Bookstaber's The End of Theory by Robert N. Farago, ASIP, are among the leading Enterprising Investor posts from February.
The End of Theory by Richard Bookstaber is relevant to anyone working in the financial industry.
This work is effectively two books in one: (1) an account of the rise and internationalization of the renminbi and of its prospects for continued ascendancy over the near term and the medium term and (2) a concise description of the various vehicles for investing in Chinese assets.
In this important contribution to the literature, noted monetary macroeconomists argue that the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 was caused by a crash in money growth.
The author proposes debiasing techniques that can improve the practice of operational risk management by countering behavioral biases.
The concepts presented in Adaptive Markets relate to all types of investors, assets, and markets. Andrew Lo reviews efficient markets, the random walk, and standard risk/reward measures in investments.