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by Jon A. Christopherson, David R. Carino, Wayne E. Ferson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Here is a chapter from Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, which will help you create a system you can use to accurately measure your performance. The authors highlight common mechanical problems involved in building benchmarks and clearly illustrate the resulting fallouts. The failure...
by Jon A. Christopherson, David R. Carino, Wayne E. Ferson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Here is a chapter from Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, which will help you create a system you can use to accurately measure your performance. The authors highlight common mechanical problems involved in building benchmarks and clearly illustrate the resulting fallouts. The failure...
by Jon A. Christopherson, David R. Carino, Wayne E. Ferson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Here is a chapter from Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, which will help you create a system you can use to accurately measure your performance. The authors highlight common mechanical problems involved in building benchmarks and clearly illustrate the resulting fallouts. The failure...
by Jon A. Christopherson, David R. Carino, Wayne E. Ferson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Here is a chapter from Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, which will help you create a system you can use to accurately measure your performance. The authors highlight common mechanical problems involved in building benchmarks and clearly illustrate the resulting fallouts. The failure...
Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, Chapter 25 - Equity Style Indexes
Tools for Better Performance Evaluation and Plan Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Here is a chapter from Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, which will help you create a system you can use to accurately measure your performance. The authors highlight common mechanical problems involved in building benchmarks and clearly illustrate the resulting fallouts. The failure...
by Jon A. Christopherson, David R. Carino, Wayne E. Ferson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
In order to make sound investment choices, investors must know the projected return on investment in relation to the risk of not being paid. Benchmarks are excellent evaluators, but the failure to choose the right investing performance benchmark often leads to bad decisions or inaction, which inevitably...
Quantitative Value
A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
A must-read book on the quantitative value investment strategy
Warren Buffett and Ed Thorp represent two spectrums of investing: one value driven, one quantitative. Where they align is in their belief that the market is beatable. This book seeks to take the best aspects of value investing and...
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Concepts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Cost-Benefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of...
by Robert C. Lind, Kenneth J. Arrow, Gordon R. Corey
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published in 1982.
After the Factory
Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity...
Plowshares & Pork Barrels
The Political Economy of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Agricultural subsidies in grains, cotton, milk, sugar, tobacco, honey, wool, and peanuts are analyzed in this examination of U.S. farm policy. Looking at such programs as food stamps, crop insurance, subsidized credit, trade credit, trade subsidies and import restrictions, conservation, agricultural...
Portfolio Performance Meaurement and Benchmarking
Fixed-Income Risk
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Here is a chapter from Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, which will help you create a system you can use to accurately measure your performance. The authors highlight common mechanical problems involved in building benchmarks and clearly illustrate the resulting fallouts. The failure...
THE HUMAN GENOME
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
Significant advances in our knowledge of genetics were made during the twentieth century but in the most recent decades, genetic research has dramatically increased its impact throughout society. Genetic issues are now playing a large role in health and public policy, and new knowledge in this field...
Public Policy
Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit to health care reform to climate change, authors Michael Kraft...