book reviews
Thomas Pistorius challenges much of mainstream investment theory that uses mathematical statistics to predict returns.
Entrepreneurial Finance provides an excellent overview of the issues that investors and entrepreneurs alike must consider when financing new ventures.
All investment practitioners could profit handsomely, both intellectually and professionally, from studying any of the articles in this volume.
Getting Back to Business challenges the premises and prescriptions of modern portfolio theory (MPT) and offers an alternative investment approach.
Howard Marks, CFA, explains why market cycles are largely driven by human psychology and behaviors.
The latest book from Larry Swedroe and Kevin Grogan, CFA, focuses on retirement planning. The inclusion of “complete” in the title is appropriate.
Modern Compliance is an ambitious undertaking that brings together the myriad complexities of governing the investment professional.
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.