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- catalog abstract ""Some of the topics covered in Searching for Alpha include the following: the three reasons why the mutual fund industry will always underperform the overall stock market; the well-known economist who, by comparing the stock market to a "beauty contest," made a fortune as a speculator; how a highly successful football betting scheme can be utilized to profitably trade stocks; how to profit from the idiosyncrasies of human behavior; what the waxing-and-waning tendency of oil wells can tell us about the impact of technology on the investment management industry; the commonalities between catching monkeys in India and avoiding taxes on investments in the United States; and the profit potential of value stocks for the next decade."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11676884.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Some of the topics covered in Searching for Alpha include the following: the three reasons why the mutual fund industry will always underperform the overall stock market; the well-known economist who, by comparing the stock market to a "beauty contest," made a fortune as a speculator; how a highly successful football betting scheme can be utilized to profitably trade stocks; how to profit from the idiosyncrasies of human behavior; what the waxing-and-waning tendency of oil wells can tell us about the impact of technology on the investment management industry; the commonalities between catching monkeys in India and avoiding taxes on investments in the United States; and the profit potential of value stocks for the next decade."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Perception and Reality -- The Equation That Changed the Investment World -- The Revolution of Index-Based Investing -- Can Anyone Outperform the Market? -- Alpha Respite I: The Case of the Tempted Money Manager -- Free Lunch, Anyone? -- Arbitrage and Other "Free" Lunches -- Enhancements to CAPM: The Search for Financial DNA -- Managed Futures and Portable Alpha -- Alpha Respite II: The Case of the Converging Correlations -- The Business of Adding Value -- Alpha Generation and Taxes -- Behavioral Finance: Are We Really That Irrational? -- Technology and the Capital Markets -- Alpha Respite III: The Enigma of Asset Allocation.".
- catalog extent "xix, 202 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Searching for alpha.".
- catalog identifier "0471348228 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Searching for alpha.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Wiley investment series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Wiley,".
- catalog relation "Searching for alpha.".
- catalog subject "332.6 21".
- catalog subject "HG4551 .W37 2000".
- catalog subject "Investments.".
- catalog subject "Mutual funds.".
- catalog subject "Portfolio management.".
- catalog subject "Securities.".
- catalog subject "Stock exchanges.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Perception and Reality -- The Equation That Changed the Investment World -- The Revolution of Index-Based Investing -- Can Anyone Outperform the Market? -- Alpha Respite I: The Case of the Tempted Money Manager -- Free Lunch, Anyone? -- Arbitrage and Other "Free" Lunches -- Enhancements to CAPM: The Search for Financial DNA -- Managed Futures and Portable Alpha -- Alpha Respite II: The Case of the Converging Correlations -- The Business of Adding Value -- Alpha Generation and Taxes -- Behavioral Finance: Are We Really That Irrational? -- Technology and the Capital Markets -- Alpha Respite III: The Enigma of Asset Allocation.".
- catalog title "Searching for alpha : the quest for exceptional investment performance / Ben Warwick.".
- catalog type "text".