Understanding Asset Allocation

Author : Dorianne Perrucci,Jerry A. Miccolis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470409633

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Asset Allocation For Dummies by Dorianne Perrucci,Jerry A. Miccolis Pdf

An easy-to-understand how-to guide to the single most important thing you can do in investing — choosing and mixing your assets successfully. You don’t need to be an expert analyst, a star stock-picker, or a rocket scientist to have better investment results than most other investors. You just need to allocate your assets in the right way, and have the conviction to stick with that allocation. The big secret behind asset allocation — the secret that most sophisticated investors know and use to their benefit — is that it’s really not all that hard to do. Asset Allocation For Dummies serves as a comprehensive guide to maximizing returns and minimizing risk — while managing taxes, fees and other costs — in putting together a portfolio to reflect your unique financial goals. Jerry A. Miccolis (Basking Ridge, NJ), CFA®, CFP®, FCAS, MAAA is a widely quoted expert commentator who has been interviewed in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and appeared on CBS Radio and ABC-TV. He is a senior financial advisor and co-owner of Brinton Eaton Wealth Advisors (www.brintoneaton.com), a fee-only investment management, tax advisory and financial planning firm in Madison, N.J. Dorianne R. Perrucci (Scotch Plains, NJ) is a freelance writer who has been published in The New York Times, Newsweek, and TheStreet.com, and has collaborated on several financial books, including I.O.U.S.A, One Nation, Under Stress, In Debt (Wiley, 2008).

Author : Victor A. Canto
Publisher : Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Asset allocation
ISBN : 0134393341

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Understanding Asset Allocation by Victor A. Canto Pdf

This book is about effective asset allocation. It's not enough to rely on some investment manager's "one-size-fits-all" software to allocate your precious capital: you need to understand the process, and take control. In Understanding Asset Allocation, world-class economist, investment expert, and hedge fund manager Victor Canto shows exactly how to understand the process of assett allocation. Canto introduces a flexible, intuitive, easy-to-use approach to asset allocation that leverages powerful business cycle information and investment vehicles most investors ignore. Canto reveals what you can (and can't) learn from historical data; how to find and focus on sectors that offer exceptional opportunity; and how to manage risk far more effectively. Whether you manage your own investments or rely on an advisor, Understanding Asset Allocation will help you optimize all your asset allocation decisions -- and maximize the returns they deliver.

Author : Scott Frush
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071475945

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Understanding Asset Allocation by Scott Frush Pdf

Build and manage a winning portfolio in bull and bear markets Understanding Asset Allocation logically explains exactly what you need to know about how to allocate your assets. This comprehensive, highly accessible guide clearly explains the key principles of asset allocation, from selection to rebalancing to risk vs. return. You'll discover how the different asset classes behave, the leading misconceptions about allocation, and how risk profile, time horizon, and needs can impact your investments. No matter your type of portfolio or your level of experience, this easy-to-follow, non-technical rulebook shows you how to: Apply allocation with separate asset classes or through mutual funds Protect your investments from large swings in market value Achieve both your pre-retirement and retirement financial goals Avoid common allocation mistakes and behavioral blunders Complete with instructive, hands-on examples of real-world portfolios that have exhibited a high level of return, Understanding Asset Allocation arms you with all the tools you need to build and manage a portfolio that experiences higher investment performance and less risk over time.

Author : William Kinlaw,Mark P. Kritzman,David Turkington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119817710

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Asset Allocation by William Kinlaw,Mark P. Kritzman,David Turkington Pdf

Discover a masterful exploration of the fallacies and challenges of asset allocation In Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond—the newly and substantially revised Second Edition of A Practitioner’s Guide to Asset Allocation—accomplished finance professionals William Kinlaw, Mark P. Kritzman, and David Turkington deliver a robust and insightful exploration of the core tenets of asset allocation. Drawing on their experience working with hundreds of the world’s largest and most sophisticated investors, the authors review foundational concepts, debunk fallacies, and address cutting-edge themes like factor investing and scenario analysis. The new edition also includes references to related topics at the end of each chapter and a summary of key takeaways to help readers rapidly locate material of interest. The book also incorporates discussions of: The characteristics that define an asset class, including stability, investability, and similarity The fundamentals of asset allocation, including definitions of expected return, portfolio risk, and diversification Advanced topics like factor investing, asymmetric diversification, fat tails, long-term investing, and enhanced scenario analysis as well as tools to address challenges such as liquidity, rebalancing, constraints, and within-horizon risk. Perfect for client-facing practitioners as well as scholars who seek to understand practical techniques, Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond is a must-read resource from an author team of distinguished finance experts and a forward by Nobel prize winner Harry Markowitz.

Author : Victor A. Canto
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 013270367X

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Understanding Asset Allocation by Victor A. Canto Pdf

This book is about effective asset allocation. It's not enough to rely on some investment manager's "one-size-fits-all" software to allocate your precious capital: you need to understand the process, and take control. In Understanding Asset Allocation, world-class economist, investment expert, and hedge fund manager Victor Canto shows exactly how to understand the process of assett allocation. Canto introduces a flexible, intuitive, easy-to-use approach to asset allocation that leverages powerful business cycle information and investment vehicles most investors ignore. Canto reveals what you can (and can't) learn from historical data; how to find and focus on sectors that offer exceptional opportunity; and how to manage risk far more effectively. Whether you manage your own investments or rely on an advisor, Understanding Asset Allocation will help you optimize all your asset allocation decisions -- and maximize the returns they deliver.

Author : Giuseppe Galloppo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030761288

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Asset Allocation Strategies for Mutual Funds by Giuseppe Galloppo Pdf

This book offers an overview of the best-working strategies in the field of equity and fixed income mutual fund-based portfolio management. This timely research considers different market conditions, such as global financial crises, across various geographical regions such as the USA and Europe. Combining academic and practical findings, the author presents a practitioner perspective on mutual fund-based portfolio strategies, appealing not only to finance scholars but also professionals within the asset management industry. This book synthesizes a large part of the academic research to date on the mutual fund industry by drawing from the most widely cited academic journals. The author makes a systematic use of numerical examples to facilitate the understanding of Investment themes organized around several important topics: size, diversification, flows, active management, volatility, performance persistence and rating.

Author : William Kinlaw,Mark P. Kritzman,David Turkington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119402428

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A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Allocation by William Kinlaw,Mark P. Kritzman,David Turkington Pdf

Since the formalization of asset allocation in 1952 with the publication of Portfolio Selection by Harry Markowitz, there have been great strides made to enhance the application of this groundbreaking theory. However, progress has been uneven. It has been punctuated with instances of misleading research, which has contributed to the stubborn persistence of certain fallacies about asset allocation. A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Allocation fills a void in the literature by offering a hands-on resource that describes the many important innovations that address key challenges to asset allocation and dispels common fallacies about asset allocation. The authors cover the fundamentals of asset allocation, including a discussion of the attributes that qualify a group of securities as an asset class and a detailed description of the conventional application of mean-variance analysis to asset allocation.. The authors review a number of common fallacies about asset allocation and dispel these misconceptions with logic or hard evidence. The fallacies debunked include such notions as: asset allocation determines more than 90% of investment performance; time diversifies risk; optimization is hypersensitive to estimation error; factors provide greater diversification than assets and are more effective at reducing noise; and that equally weighted portfolios perform more reliably out of sample than optimized portfolios. A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Allocation also explores the innovations that address key challenges to asset allocation and presents an alternative optimization procedure to address the idea that some investors have complex preferences and returns may not be elliptically distributed. Among the challenges highlighted, the authors explain how to overcome inefficiencies that result from constraints by expanding the optimization objective function to incorporate absolute and relative goals simultaneously. The text also explores the challenge of currency risk, describes how to use shadow assets and liabilities to unify liquidity with expected return and risk, and shows how to evaluate alternative asset mixes by assessing exposure to loss throughout the investment horizon based on regime-dependent risk. This practical text contains an illustrative example of asset allocation which is used to demonstrate the impact of the innovations described throughout the book. In addition, the book includes supplemental material that summarizes the key takeaways and includes information on relevant statistical and theoretical concepts, as well as a comprehensive glossary of terms.

Author : Richard Ferri
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000058225448

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All About Asset Allocation by Richard Ferri Pdf

All About Asset Allocation goes beyond sound-bite financial columns and TV programs to explain asset allocation in terms that anyone can under- stand. Using a concise style, it features straight- forward explanations of asset allocation, a review of the asset allocation process, and guidelines for implementing strategies and programs.

Author : CFA Darst, David M.
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071719575

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Mastering the Art of Asset Allocation, Chapter 5 - Understanding and Using Correlations by CFA Darst, David M. Pdf

The following chapter comes from Mastering the Art of Asset Allocation, which focuses on the knowledge and nuances that will help you achieve asset allocation success. Asset allocation authority David Darst builds upon his bestselling The Art of Asset Allocation to explore every aspect of asset allocation from foundations through correlations, providing you with detailed techniques for understanding and implementing asset allocation in any portfolio.

Author : Vasant Naik,Mukundan Devarajan,Andrew Nowobilski ,Sébastien Page, CFA,Niels Pedersen
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781944960155

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Factor Investing and Asset Allocation: A Business Cycle Perspective by Vasant Naik,Mukundan Devarajan,Andrew Nowobilski ,Sébastien Page, CFA,Niels Pedersen Pdf

Author : Roger C. Gibson
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0071378014

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Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk by Roger C. Gibson Pdf

Financial experts agree: Asset allocation is the key strategies for maintaining a consistent yet superior rate of investment return. Now, Roger Gibson's Asset Allocation - the bestselling reference book on this popular subject for a decade has been updated to keep pace with the latest developments and findings. This Third Edition provides step-by-step strategies for implementing asset allocation in a high return/low risk portfolio, educating financial planning clients on the solid logic behind asset allocation, and more.

Author : David M. Darst
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0071379509

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The Art of Asset Allocation by David M. Darst Pdf

Written in a manner that is accessible to both the individual investor and the financial advisor, this text presents the tools of asset allocation, a comprehensive understanding of the process and the specifics of asset class characteristics.

Author : Adam Butler,Michael Philbrick,Rodrigo Gordillo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119220398

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Adaptive Asset Allocation by Adam Butler,Michael Philbrick,Rodrigo Gordillo Pdf

Build an agile, responsive portfolio with a new approach to global asset allocation Adaptive Asset Allocation is a no-nonsense how-to guide for dynamic portfolio management. Written by the team behind Gestaltu.com, this book walks you through a uniquely objective and unbiased investment philosophy and provides clear guidelines for execution. From foundational concepts and timing to forecasting and portfolio optimization, this book shares insightful perspective on portfolio adaptation that can improve any investment strategy. Accessible explanations of both classical and contemporary research support the methodologies presented, bolstered by the authors' own capstone case study showing the direct impact of this approach on the individual investor. Financial advisors are competing in an increasingly commoditized environment, with the added burden of two substantial bear markets in the last 15 years. This book presents a framework that addresses the major challenges both advisors and investors face, emphasizing the importance of an agile, globally-diversified portfolio. Drill down to the most important concepts in wealth management Optimize portfolio performance with careful timing of savings and withdrawals Forecast returns 80% more accurately than assuming long-term averages Adopt an investment framework for stability, growth, and maximum income An optimized portfolio must be structured in a way that allows quick response to changes in asset class risks and relationships, and the flexibility to continually adapt to market changes. To execute such an ambitious strategy, it is essential to have a strong grasp of foundational wealth management concepts, a reliable system of forecasting, and a clear understanding of the merits of individual investment methods. Adaptive Asset Allocation provides critical background information alongside a streamlined framework for improving portfolio performance.

Author : Alex Shahidi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118711941

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Balanced Asset Allocation by Alex Shahidi Pdf

The conventional portfolio is prone to frequent and potentially devastating losses because it is NOT balanced to different economic outcomes. In contrast, a truly balanced portfolio can help investors reduce risk and more reliably achieve their objectives. This simple fact would surprise most investors, from beginners to professionals. Investment consultant Alex Shahidi puts his 15 years of experience advising the most sophisticated investors in the world and managing multi-billion dollar portfolios to work in this important resource for investors. You will better understand why nearly every portfolio is poorly balanced and how to view the crucial asset allocation decision from a deeper, more thoughtful perspective. The concepts presented are simple, intuitive and easy to implement for every investor. Author Alex Shahidi will walk you through the logic behind the balanced portfolio framework and provide step-by-step instructions on how to build a truly balanced portfolio. No book has ever been written that discusses asset allocation in this light. Provides insights from a top-ranked investment consultant using strategies from the industry’s brightest minds Proposes a balanced asset allocation that can achieve stable returns through various economic climates Introduces sophisticated concepts in very simple terms For those who want to better manage their investment portfolio and seek a more advanced approach to building a balanced portfolio, Balanced Asset Allocation: How to Profit in Any Economic Climate provides an in-depth treatment of the topic that can be put to use immediately.

Author : Richard A. Ferri
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0071759514

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All About Asset Allocation, Second Edition by Richard A. Ferri Pdf

WHEN IT COMES TO INVESTING FOR YOUR FUTURE, THERE'S ONLY ONE SURE BET—ASSET ALLOCATION THE EASY WAY TO GET STARTED Everything You Need to Know About How To: Implement a smart asset allocation strategy Diversify your investments with stocks, bonds, real estate, and other classes Change your allocation and lock in gains Trying to outwit the market is a bad gamble. If you're serious about investing for the long run, you have to take a no-nonsense, businesslike approach to your portfolio. In addition to covering all the basics, this new edition of All About Asset Allocation includes timely advice on: Learning which investments work well together and why Selecting the right mutual funds and ETFs Creating an asset allocation that’s right for your needs Knowing how and when to change an allocation Understanding target-date mutual funds "All About Asset Allocation offers advice that is both prudent and practical--keep it simple, diversify, and, above all, keep your expenses low--from an author who both knows how vital asset allocation is to investment success and, most important, works with real people." -- John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO, The Vanguard Group "With All About Asset Allocation at your side, you'll be executing a sound investment plan, using the best materials and wearing the best safety rope that money can buy." -- William Bernstein, founder, Effi cientFrontier.com, and author, The Intelligent Asset Allocator