Active Investment Management: Finding and Harnessing Investment Skill (The Wiley Finance Series) by Charles Jackson

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Active Investment Management looks at where active management has come from, where it is today, what problems it faces and where the answers to these questions are leading it. The book addresses the major issues concerning the key groups within the industry.

Charles Jackson's wonderfully readable book will be essential reading for the practitioner and is broken down into five sections covering the whole spectrum of active investment management:

* asset classes and products
* balancing risk and return
* active product selection
* the nature of skill
* the price of skill

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Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #1162315 in Books
Published on: 2003-09-08
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
230 pages
Editorial Reviews

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"Good introductory books on investment are hard to find – but Active Investment Management by Jackson falls into that rare category." (Professional Investor, May 2004)

"…analyses investment and business strategies that he (the author) says will shape the future fund management." (Stanford Business, May 2004)

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"Active Investment Management looks at where active management has come from, where it is today, what problems it faces and where the answers to these questions are leading it. The book addresses the major issues concerning the key groups within the industry.

Charles Jackson's wonderfully readable book will be essential reading for the practitioner and is broken down into five sections covering the whole spectrum of active investment management:

* asset classes and products
* balancing risk and return
* active product selection
* the nature of skill
* the price of skill

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Book Info
Text presents the fundamentals of what active management is and why investors find it desirable. Shows how these fundamentals have given rise to the industry's problems, how these problems affect each other, and how they can be resolved.