Rational Investing : : The Subtleties of Asset Management / / Jacques Lussier, Hugues Langlois.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Langlois, Hugues,; Lussier, Jacques,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Business School Publishing
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 30 figures and tables

Many investors believe that success in investing is either luck or clairvoyance. In Rational Investing, finance professor Hugues Langlois and asset manager Jacques Lussier present the current state of asset management and clarify the conundrum of luck versus skill. The core of Rational Investing is a framework for smart investing built around three performance drivers: balancing exposure to risk factors, efficiently diversifying bad luck, and taking advantage of relative mispricings in financial markets. With clear examples from model multi-asset-class portfolios, Langlois and Lussier show how to implement performance drivers like institutional investors with access to extensive resources, as well as nonprofessional investors who are constrained to small-scale transactions. There are few investment products, whether traditional or alternative, discretionary or systematic, fundamental or quantitative, whose performance cannot be analyzed through this framework. Langlois and Lussier illuminate the structure of financial markets and the mechanics of sustainable investing so any investor can become a rational player, from the nonprofessional investor with a basic knowledge of statistics all the way to seasoned investment professionals wishing to challenge their understanding of the asset management industry.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. The Subtleties of Asset Management -- 2. Understanding the Playing Field -- 3. Skill, Scale, and Luck in Active Fund Management -- 4. What May and Can Be Forecasted? -- 5. The Blueprint to Long-Term Performance -- 6. Building Better Portfolios -- 7. We Know Better, But . . . -- Notes -- Index